Sustainability
Biomanufacturing at Scale: Separating Feasibility from Commercial Viability
Physical scalability in fermentation was established decades ago. The decisions that determine whether a bioprocess for making a specialty chemical becomes a profitable one are made earlier, and they focus on deployment execution and commercial position of the product Ask…
The Scale-up Gap in Bio-based Materials
Successful pilot operations are a necessary first step, but for bio-based processes, getting a product plant-ready requires navigating the gap between research environments and industrial plant settings A successful pilot batch has a way of changing the mood in a…
Topsoe selected as technology licensor for HDF Energy’s BaseBlue blue hydrogen project
Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) has been selected by HDF Energy S.A. (Bordeaux, France) as technology licensor for BaseBlue. The power project is planned to supply data centers in Texas with reliable, low-carbon electricity. Under the agreement, Topsoe will provide the…
Stora Enso and Shanshan partner on lignin-based hard carbon anode demonstration line
Stora Enso Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) and Shanshan Technology Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China) have entered into a partnership to jointly accelerate the development and industrialization of sustainable battery materials with the construction of a demonstration line for lignin-based hard carbon battery…
Veolia and Sumitomo Chemical join Japan’s plastic resource circulation model project
Veolia Jenets K.K. (Tokyo, Japan) and Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) have been selected to participate in the Ministry of the Environment of Japan’s FY2026 Model Project for Plastic Resource Circulation. By combining mechanical recycling (MR) and chemical recycling…
Veolia to supply CO₂ purification units for Protos carbon capture plant
Veolia Environnement S.A. (Paris, France) has been awarded a significant contract by Kanadevia Inova AG (Zurich, Switzerland), the engineering, procurement and construction contractor for the Protos carbon capture plant, to design and supply two CO₂ purification and dehydration units. The…
Aliplast opens rigid plastics recycling plant in Modena, Italy
Aliplast S.p.A. (Ospedaletto di Istrana, Italy) inaugurated its rigid plastics recycling plant in Modena, Italy, on Oct. 22. The official opening of R3GID (Recover Recycle Regenerate Plastic) was attended by Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, Italy’s Minister of the Environment and Energy…
NewHydrogen completes construction, commissioning of clean hydrogen demonstration unit
NewHydrogen, Inc. (Santa Clarita, Calif.), the developer of the ThermoLoop® production technology for industrial-scale clean hydrogen, announced that it has completed construction and commissioning of its engineering test unit (ETU) and is now capable of demonstrating long-duration stability of its…
SUEZ to deliver quaternary treatment stage at Kalundborg wastewater plant in Denmark
SUEZ S.A. (Paris, France) has been selected by Kalundborg Forsyning A/S (Kalundborg, Denmark) to design and deliver a new quaternary treatment stage at the Kalundborg Central Wastewater Treatment Plant in Denmark. The installation will reduce micropollutants in treated wastewater discharged…
Kawasaki Heavy Industries begins construction of hydrogen liquefaction plant
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. (Tokyo) announced that it has started construction of a hydrogen liquefaction plant (hereinafter "the Plant") at the Kawasaki LH2 Terminal (Ogishima, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa, Japan). With a liquefaction capacity of 50 tons per day, the…