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Biotechnology plays a key role in sustainably feeding a growing global population How are we going to feed 10 billion people using 35% less land by 2050? This was the question posed by Ian Roberts, chief technology officer at Bühler…

Selective separation of individual rare-earth elements using DGA-based ligands

Utilizing rare-earth elements (REEs), such as for permanent magnets in renewable energy applications, requires costly chemical separations that generate large volumes of waste. A process featuring new diglycolamide (DGA)-based ligands and liquid-liquid extraction exhibits more effective separation of individual REEs,…

MHI Engineering to perform CO2-capture demonstration test at Tokuyama cement plant

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd. (MHIENG), a group company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo), has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Tokuyama Corp. (Tokyo), one of Japan’s leading chemicals/cement manufacturers, on the implementation of a CO2 capture…

Black & Veatch, The Green Solutions sign MoU to advance green hydrogen and ammonia production in Vietnam

Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.) and The Green Solutions (TGS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to advance the production and supply of green hydrogen and green ammonia in Vietnam. Specializing in renewable energy project development, manufacturing and…

BASF invests in Oceanworks, a sustainable plastic sourcing platform

BASF Venture Capital GmbH (BVC), the corporate venture company of BASF Group, announced a strategic investment in Oceanworks, a sustainable plastic solutions provider that brings traceability and transparency through digitalization to recycled plastics. Oceanworks is based in the U.S. and…

Eastman joins fiber-recycling alliance 4Evergreen

Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.) has joined 4evergreen, a cross-industry alliance that focuses on the circularity of fiber-based packaging to contribute to a climate-neutral, sustainable society. The goal of the alliance is to raise the overall recycling rate of fiber-based…

McDermott to supply hydrogen spheres for Plug Power’s green hydrogen plant in NY

McDermott International Inc. (Houston) announced that its storage business, CB&I, will design and build two 500,000-gallon double-wall liquid hydrogen spheres for Plug Power Inc.’s (Latham, N.Y. new green hydrogen production facility in Genesee County, New York. The production facility, leveraging…

Neste studying scaleup of liquefied plastics-waste processing at Porvoo refinery

Proceeding on the target of commercializing chemical recycling of waste plastic, Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) is conducting a feasibility study to examine investing in capacity for processing liquefied waste plastic at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland. The goal is to…

Solvay and Mitsubishi Chemical to collaborate on recycling of end-of-life medical components

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) announced that it is partnering with Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials (MCAM) to recycle end-of-life medical components. Medical equipment made using Solvay’s Udel high-performance polysulfone (PSU) thermoplastic will be recycled at the end of their useful lives in…

Statkraft to supply Wacker’s silicon metal production in Norway with green electricity

Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) announced that it has signed agreements with Norwegian power producer Statkraft to secure that around 40 percent of the electricity needs at the silicon metal production site at Holla in Norway will be met by…