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UPM and Haertol to develop new sustainable coolants

UPM Biochemicals and HAERTOL Chemie GmbH announced a development partnership that will accelerate the introduction of renewable, sustainable forest-sourced materials into the automotive market and reduce fossil resource consumption. UPM Biochemicals and HAERTOL, both headquartered in Germany, have agreed to…

Consortium to begin Japan’s first commercial-scale production of cellulosic bioethanol from woody biomass

Nippon Paper Industries Co., (Tokyo), Sumitomo Corp. (Tokyo) and Green Earth Institute Co. (Tokyo) agreed to begin trilateral consideration of the first commercial production of cellulosic bioethanol from woody biomass in Japan and its development into bio-chemical products. Bioethanol is…

Toray and Idemitsu Kosan to develop supply chain for biomass-based plastics

Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) and Idemitsu Kosan Co. (Tokyo) announced that they have agreed to build a supply chain for plastics made from biomass naphtha. They would manufacture biomass styrene monomer derived from biomass naphtha and acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS)…

RWE, Lotte Chemical and Mitsubishi join forces to develop clean-ammonia supply chains

RWE , Lotte Chemical Corp. and Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) have formed a strategic alliance to jointly develop stable and large-scale clean ammonia (green and blue ammonia) supply chains in Asia, Europe and the US. Within this alliance RWE, Lotte, and…

Chevron Phillips and Nexus Circular sign agreement for supply of advanced recycling feeds

Nexus Circular LLC (Atlanta, Ga.) announced that the company has signed a long-term commercial agreement with Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LLC (CPChem; The Woodlands, Tex.) for the supply of a significant volume annually of circular liquid feedstocks from a new…

Nel Hydrogen to supply electrolyzers for HyCC in Delfzijl

Nel Hydrogen Electrolyser AS, a subsidiary of Nel ASA, has signed a contract for 40 MW of alkaline electrolyzer equipment for about EUR 12 million with HyCC for its H2eron project in Delfzijl, Netherlands. Kraftanlagen Energies & Services has been…

AGC and Saint-Gobain collaborating on decarbonizing glass production

AGC Inc. (Tokyo) and Saint-Gobain (Courbevoie, France) are collaborating on the design of a pilot breakthrough flat-glass line that is expected to reduce very significantly its direct CO2 emissions. As part of this R&D project, AGC’s patterned glass production line…

KBR technology selected for green ammonia project in Chile

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that its green ammonia technology, K-GreeN, has been selected by Enaex, S.A. for its innovative HyEx green ammonia project in Chile. The HyEx project will demonstrate operational stability of production of green ammonia using renewable energy…

NextChem acquires continuous chemical-recycling process from Biorenova

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announced that its subsidiary NextChem S.p.A. has signed an agreement with Biorenova S.p.A. to acquire, scale up and industrialize the proprietary CatC technology, a continuous chemical recycling process to recover monomers (building blocks for the…

Linde to invest $1.8 billion to supply clean hydrogen to OCI’s blue ammonia project on the U.S. Gulf Coast

Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced that it has signed a long-term agreement to supply clean hydrogen and other industrial gases to OCI N.V.’s (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) new world-scale blue ammonia plant in Beaumont, Texas. Linde will build, own and operate…