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Cemex and Carbon8 collaborating on CCUS technologies for cement production

Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V. (Monterrey, Mexico) announced that it is working together with Carbon8 Systems to evaluate the company’s patented carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology and how CO2 captured during the cement production process can be used to…

Marathon-ADM JV to build soybean-processing plant in North Dakota for renewable diesel feedstock

Marathon Petroleum Corp. (Findlay, Ohio) and ADM (Chicago) announced the closing of their joint venture to produce soybean oil to supply the rapidly growing demand for renewable diesel fuel. The joint venture, which is named Green Bison Soy Processing, LLC,…

BioAccelergy and ExxonMobil to explore commercial-scale development of bio-based stocks for lubricants

BioAccelergy Ventures (Houston) has signed a joint-development agreement with ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (ExxonMobil) to progress development of a new bio-base stock for lubricants manufacturing from seed and vegetable oil. The multi-year agreement aims to demonstrate the feasibility of producing…

Five Dow sites receive ISCC PLUS certification for use of sustainable feedstock

Dow (Midland, Mich.) announced that five of its largest manufacturing sites in Freeport, Texas (USA), Tarragona (Spain), Terneuzen (Netherlands), Boehlen (Germany) and Schkopau (Germany) have received International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS recognition for their compliance with rigorous tracking…

Svante partners with Kiewit to develop industrial-scale carbon capture projects in North America

Svante, Inc. (Burnaby, B.C., Canada) and Kiewit Energy Group Inc. have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a strategic alliance to pursue industrial carbon capture projects under development by industrial carbon emitter clients in the U.S. and…

Monolith and Goodyear to collaborate on sustainable carbon-black production

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) announced that it has signed a collaboration agreement and letter of intent with Monolith Materials (Lincoln, Neb.) for the development and potential use of carbon black produced from methane and/or biomethane for…

Nuberg EPC awarded contract for IOCL bio-ethanol plant

EPC and turnkey project management company, Nuberg EPC (New Delhi, India) has been awarded the prestigious 10 ton/d 2nd Generation Bio-Ethanol from Biomass plant project on an LSTK basis in Panipat. The project, owned by Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. (IOCL;…

Novozymes and Saipem enter collaboration for enzymatic carbon-capture technologies

Novozymes A/S (Copenhagen, Denmark) and Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) have entered a collaboration agreement to develop solutions for enzymatic carbon capture, a biological and cost-effective alternative to traditional carbon capture. The ambition is to bring advanced enzyme-based carbon…

thyssenkrupp signs contract to install over 2-GW electrolysis plant for Air Products in NEOM

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) has awarded thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers GmbH (Dortmund, Germany) a contract to supply a more than 2-GW electrolysis plant for one of the world’s largest green hydrogen projects at NEOM in Saudi Arabia. Under this…

Yara and Sumitomo Chemical explore clean ammonia collaboration in Japan

Yara International ASA (Oslo, Norway) and Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) have entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the potential supply of clean ammonia to Sumitomo Chemical for its use in chemicals production, accelerating Japan’s green energy transition. Under this…