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Wood leads industry project to accelerate CCUS with guidelines for CO2 specifications

Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) is leading a Joint Industry Partnership (JIP) to create industry guidelines for CO2 specifications to accelerate sustainable Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) projects. The guidelines are the first of their kind to focus on the…

Axens, IFPEN and JEPLAN begin commercial licensing of PET chemical-recycling process

Following the announcement made at the inauguration of a semi-industrial demonstration unit at Kitakyushu in Japan in October 2023, Axens, IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN; both Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Jeplan, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan), partners in the project, are glad to announce…

LyondellBasell completes acquisition of solvent-based recycling company APK

LyondellBasell (LYB; Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) yesterday announced it became full owner of APK AG (Merseberg, Germany; www.apk.group). APK will be fully integrated and continue as part of LYB, a sustainability leader in the chemical industry. It is LYB’s ambition…

Jacobs to support Capital Hydrogen on East London hydrogen pipeline project

Jacobs (Dallas, Tex.) was selected by Cadent Gas on behalf of Capital Hydrogen to deliver the Pre-Front End Engineering Design (Pre-FEED) phase of the East London Hydrogen Pipeline (ELHP) project. The pipeline will span 56 miles (90 kilometers) through East…

BASF plans to construct the world’s largest industrial heat pump for CO2-free steam generation

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has received funding approval from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action for the construction of the world’s most powerful industrial heat pump. In the coming months, the company will therefore be able…

Cepsa and Sonatrach to collaborate on green hydrogen feasibility study

Cespa (Madrid, Spain) and Sonatrach (Algiers, Algeria) have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly carry out a feasibility study for the development of an integrated project for green hydrogen production and derivatives in Algeria, mainly aimed at supplying the…

Vianode inaugurates graphite anode manufacturing plant in Norway

Vianode, an advanced battery materials company providing anode graphite solutions, has officially opened its first full-scale Via ONE anode graphite production plant at Herøya, Norway. The production ramp-up represents a significant step in building a European value chain for batteries…

ABB Robotics and Molg partnering on datacenter e-waste handling

ABB Robotics is collaborating with U.S. startup Molg to create robotic microfactories to recover and recycle datacenter operators’ disused electronic equipment, commonly known as e-waste. With global e-waste projected to rise to 75 million tons by 2030, the microfactories will…

Thyssenkrupp wins engineering contract for one of the largest carbon-capture projects in Europe

Thyssenkrupp Polysius and TITAN Group signed  a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract for the Carbon Capture Project IFESTOS in Athens, Greece. IFESTOS is one of the largest carbon capture projects in Europe, enabling the production of zero-carbon cement and concrete.…

BASF Agricultural Solutions manufacturing site in China is now fully run on renewable energy

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that its production site in Rudong, China has reduced CO2 emissions to zero (Scope 1 and 2) by modifying its existing site heating system from steam to electricity generated from renewable energy. As a result,…