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Plastic Energy and Axens partner with Qenos to develop Australia’s largest circular-plastics project

Plastic Energy (London, U.K.) and Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) are partnering with Qenos Pty Ltd. (Victoria, Austrlia) in the planning of a major circular plastics manufacturing capability in Australia. Plastic Energy and Axens announced last year their intent to jointly license…

Veolia and DuPont complete emissions-reduction project in Virginia

Veolia North America announced it has completed its partnership with DuPont to convert the utility infrastructure at the DuPont Spruance manufacturing facility in Richmond, Virginia from coal to natural gas to produce steam and electricity more efficiently. The new cogeneration…

Major green-hydrogen production and storage hub announced for South Texas

Green Hydrogen International (GHI) has unveiled plans to create the world's largest green hydrogen production and storage hub in South Texas. Hydrogen City, Texas will be an integrated green hydrogen production, storage, and transport hub growing to 60GW in size…

Lenzing starts production at world’s largest lyocell fibers plant

The Lenzing Group (Lenzing, Austria) announced the successful completion of its key lyocell expansion project in Thailand. The new plant, the largest of its kind in the world with a nameplate capacity of 100,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr), started…

Neste and Marathon establish JV for production of renewable fuels

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) signed definitive agreements for the establishment of a 50/50 joint venture (JV) with Marathon Petroleum Corp. (Findlay, Ohio). The joint venture will produce renewable diesel following a conversion project of Marathon's refinery in Martinez, California (the…

Siemens Energy to provide electrolyzers for world’s first large-scale eMethanol project

Siemens Energy (Munich, Germany) secured an order from European Energy for the delivery of an electrolyzer plant. The Danish developer and operator of green energy projects is developing the world's first large-scale commercial e-Methanol production facility with the hydrogen being…

Brightmark to build advanced plastics renewal facility in Australia

Brightmark LLC (San Francisco, Calif.) announced plans to construct an advanced plastics renewal facility for the Parkes Special Activation Precinct in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Brightmark is also exploring the construction of circular plastics plants in Europe (in partnership…

KBR to support Shell’s hydrogen liquefaction developments

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide professional services to Shell Global Solutions International B.V. for hydrogen liquefaction development.  KBR will provide technical solutions as part of concept studies to advance technology for large…

ExxonMobil planning hydrogen production, carbon capture and storage at Baytown complex

ExxonMobil Corp. (Houston) said that it is planning a hydrogen production plant and one of the world’s largest carbon capture and storage projects at its integrated refining and petrochemical site at Baytown, Texas, supporting efforts to reduce emissions from company…

Honeywell joins Oriental Energy to build large SAF plant in China

Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) and Oriental Energy Company Ltd. jointly announced that a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production facility with an annual output capacity of 1 million tons will be built in Maoming, Guangdong Province in China. The new…