Bridgestone Americas (Nashville, Tenn.) announced it received a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office. Bridgestone will design, build and operate a pilot plant that will advance an innovative, potentially more sustainable and cost-effective…
Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) and Braskem S.A. (São Paulo, Brazil) have reached an agreement for the supply of renewable and recycled feedstocks for polymers and chemicals production. Braskem products based on these feedstocks are expected to be available on the…
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…
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 (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 (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 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…
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, 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 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…