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Ecolab and Siemens jointly launch sustainability modeling platform

Ecolab, Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.) and Siemens AG (Munich, Germany) announced a strategic partnership that will help customers accelerate their progress toward sustainability and productivity goals. Together, the companies are launching Climate Intelligence, powered by ECOLAB3D and Siemens gPROMS, which…

Air Products investing $500-million in a new green-hydrogen facility in New York

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced plans to invest approximately $500 million to build, own and operate a 35 metric ton per day facility to produce green liquid hydrogen at a greenfield site in Massena, New York, as well as…

Johnson Matthey begins fuel-cell recycling operations in China

Johnson Matthey (JM; London) begun fuel cell recycling in China. Located in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu province, the plant is refining and recycling the platinum group metal content from membrane electrode assemblies (MEA), a key component of an automotive fuel cell, from…

Borealis and Verbund announce plans for industrial-scale green-hydrogen production in Austria

Borealis Group (Vienna, Austria) and VERBUND have initiated a decarbonization project that will use green hydrogen to produce fertilizers, melamine, and technical nitrogen on an industrial scale in a more sustainable way. The joint project taking place within the framework…

Lhyfe to develop 200-MW green-hydrogen plant in Delfzijl, Netherlands

Renewable hydrogen producer Lhyfe (Paris) has unveilked plans to develop a 200-MW hydrogen plant in Delfzijl, the Netherlands. “Delfzijl is an ideal location for renewable green hydrogen production as it has direct access to renewable energies from its offshore wind power…

Neste, Idemitsu Kosan, Chimei and Mitsubishi join forces to establish renewable plastics supply chain

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland), Idemitsu Kosan, CHIMEI and Mitsubishi Corp. have agreed to build a renewable plastics supply chain utilizing bio-based hydrocarbons (Neste) for the production of styrene monomer (i.e. bio-SM), and its mass balanced renewable plastics derivatives including acrylonitrile…

Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub adds industry, academic partners

Chemours Co. (Wilmington, Del.) has announced its involvement and support of the Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub (ARCH2), in collaboration with West Virginia and an prestigious group of corporate, non-profit, academic, and research partners. In response to the U.S. Infrastructure…

Two milestones for industrial solar-thermal production of fuels

In August, Synhelion S.A. (Lugano, Switzerland; www.synhelion.com) became the first company in the world to produce synthesis gas (syngas) on an industrial scale using only solar heat as an energy source. The milestone occurred on the multifocus solar tower of…

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Advancing Industrial Carbon Capture

An expanding array of CO2-capture approaches are quickly developing for hard-to-abate industrial sectors. The key objective is to significantly lower the costs of traditional CO2-capture techniques, which are based on aqueous alkanolamine absorption and desorption Achieving climate mitigation objectives, such…

SCG Chemicals expanding production capacity for recycled plastic resin in Portugal

SCG Chemicals plc (SCGC; Bangkok, Thailand) has recently invested in new technologies and machinery at Sirplaste in Portugal, following the acquisition of a 70% stake in Sirplaste-Sociedade Industrial de Recuperados de Plástico, S.A. (Sirplaste) through SCG Chemicals Trading (Singapore) PTE…