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Borealis and Reclay launch recycling entity focused on lightweight packaging

Borealis Group (Vienna, Austria) and the Reclay Group, international experts in environmental and material recovery management, announce the beginning of a new, jointly-founded entity, Recelerate GmbH. The new organization’s mission is to redesign the critical steps of the plastics sorting…

Technip Energies and Saulsbury Industries awarded EPC contract for ExxonMobil’s CCS expansion in Wyoming

Technip Energies (Paris), in consortium with Saulsbury Industries, has been awarded a contract for the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) to expand the carbon capture and storage (CCS) at ExxonMobil’s LaBarge, Wyoming facility. The LaBarge plant has already captured more…

Phillips 66 makes final investment decision to convert San Francisco refinery into renewable fuels facility

Phillips 66 (Houston) made a final investment decision to move forward with Rodeo Renewed, the project to convert its San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, California, into one of the world’s largest renewable-fuels facilities. The project, which recently received approval from…

Maire Tecnimont awarded EPC contract for 10-MW green hydrogen plant in India

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announced that its Indian subsidiary Tecnimont Private Limited (TCMPL), in collaboration with NextChem, has been awarded an EPC contract by Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) to implement a 4.3-ton/day green-hydrogen production plant via a 10-megawatt PEM electrolysis unit to be located…

Chemours announces participation in Versogen’s development of clean hydrogen technology

The Chemours Company (Wilmington, Del.) announced its participation in a fundraising for Wilmington, Delaware-based Versogen Inc., a leader in developing anion exchange membrane (AEM) technology for use in hydrogen production. Founded by University of Delaware professor Yushan Yan, Versogen’s AEM…

BP signs offtake agreement with Clean Planet Energy for circular naphtha

bp plc (London) has signed a ten-year offtake agreement with Clean Planet Energy, a U.K.-based company that is developing facilities to convert hard-to-recycle waste plastics into circular petrochemical feedstocks and also into ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD). Clean Planet Energy designs…

Verbio inaugurates cellulosic RNG plant in Iowa

Verbio Vereinigte BioEnergie AG (Leipzig, Germany) has announced the inauguration of its new renewable natural gas (RNG) production facility in Nevada, Iowa. The plant will achieve full-scale production in summer 2022. Verbio CEO Claus Sauter: “The plant in Nevada (Iowa)…

Air Liquide and Lhoist to decarbonize lime-production plant in France

Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) and Lhoist Group have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the aim to decarbonize Lhoist’s lime production plant located in Réty, in the Hauts-de-France region, using Air Liquide’s innovative and proprietary Cryocap carbon capture technology.…

Bosch plans to invest up to €500 million to develop electrolyzer components for hydrogen production

Bosch  GmbH (Gerlingen, Germany) is branching out into the development of components for electrolyzers, which use electrolysis to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Ideally, the electricity for this purpose is generated from renewable sources such as wind or photovoltaic…

ArcelorMittal tests partial replacement of natural gas with green hydrogen for DRI production

ArcelorMittal has successfully tested the use of green hydrogen in the production of direct reduced iron (DRI) at its steel plant in Contrecoeur, Quebec. ArcelorMittal’s ambition is to lead the decarbonization of the steel industry and this test is an…