Sustainability
Fortum Battery Recycling opens Europe’s largest closed-loop hydrometallurgical battery recycling facility in Finland
Fortum Battery Recycling (Espoo, Finland) has started commercial operations at its state-of-the-art hydrometallurgical battery material recycling facility in Harjavalta, Finland. The newly established facility is the largest recycling plant in Europe in terms of recycling capacity, and it is also…
Scaleup for a hydro-organic-metallurgical process
Following a successful proof-of-concept to recycle spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) using reagent extracted from fruit peel waste, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU; www.ntu.edu.sg) has partnered with Se-cure Waste Management Pte. Ltd. (SWM; Singapore; www.se-curewaste.com) to scale up the technology in…
PureCycle Technologies achieves mechanical completion for PP recycling plant in Ohio
PureCycle Technologies, Inc. (Orlando, Fla.) announced it has reached mechanical completion of its first polypropylene (PP) purification plant in Ironton, OH (the “Ironton Facility”), and submitted documentation to Leidos Engineering, LLC (“Leidos”), the site’s independent construction monitor, for formal certification…
OCI Global and Petrofac announce partnership for gasification-based green methanol projects
OCI Global, a global leader in ammonia, fertilizers and methanol for transportation and agriculture and Petrofac Ltd. (St. Helier, U.K.) announced apartnership to deliver OCI’s program of gasification-based green methanol projects. The program will support the production of low-carbon feedstock…
CF Industries and NextEra Energy Resources to collaborate on green hydrogen project in Oklahoma
CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (Deerfield, Ill.), the world’s largest producer of ammonia, and NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, the world’s largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun and a world leader in battery storage, announced a memorandum of…
Lummus and Citroniq sign letter of intent for green polypropylene projects
Lummus Technology (Houston) and Citroniq Chemicals LLC (Houston) announced that the two companies have signed a letter of intent (LOI) for the development of Citroniq’s green polypropylene (PP) projects in North America. These projects will use Lummus’ VerdenePP technology suite.…
Keppel and ExxonMobil to explore low-carbon ammonia solutions for Singapore
Keppel Infrastructure and ExxonMobil Asia Pacific have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop access to low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia for scalable commercial and industrial applications in Singapore. In addition to being a hydrogen carrier and…
NextChem awarded new contract for biomethane project in Normandy
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announced that its Sustainable Technology Solutions subsidiary NextChem, after having completed the methanation advanced basic engineering study announced in July 2022 for the Salamandre project in the Normandy region, has been awarded a new contract…
Fluor’s carbon-capture technology selected for renewable-diesel facility in Saskatchewan
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced that it has signed a license agreement with Federated Co-Operatives Limited (FCL) for the application of Fluor’s Econamine FG Plus carbon capture technology at FCL’s Co-op Renewable Diesel Complex in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Fluor also…
Linde will supply green hydrogen for Evonik’s methionine plant in Singapore
Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced that it has signed a long-term agreement to supply green hydrogen to Evonik, a leading specialty chemicals company. Linde will build, own and operate a nine-megawatt alkaline electrolyzer plant on Jurong Island, Singapore. The plant…