Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. is pleased to announce that, with the backing and support of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO, a national research and development agency), the company’s major tire factory in the City of Shirakawa…
Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) has partnered with Nexus, LLC, a waste-to-virgin plastics company, to rapidly expand their commercial-scale production plant based in Atlanta, Georgia. The plant converts plastic waste into products that are then converted into virgin recycled-content plastics. The expansion of…
Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL; Mumbai, India) is doubling its PET recycling capacity by setting up a recycled polyester staple fiber (PSF) manufacturing facility in Andhra Pradesh. As a part of this endeavor, Srichakra Ecotex India Pvt. Ltd. will build and…
Westlake Chemical Corp. (Houston) announced plans for one of its subsidiaries to acquire the parent company of Dimex LLC, from Grey Mountain Partners, a private equity firm. Based in Marietta, Ohio, Dimex produces a variety of consumer products made from…
McDermott International, Ltd. (Houston) announced it has been awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract from the Michelin Group in France for an innovative waste tire technology enabling large-scale production of recycled carbon black—a key ingredient in advancing the next…
KBR, Inc, (Houston) announced that it has signed a technology contract for a sustainable textile fibers demonstration plant to be built by TreeToTextile AB in Nymölla, Sweden. KBR will provide technology license, engineering, proprietary equipment, and commissioning services for the…
ArcelorMittal (Luxembourg) has announced that new direct reduction of iron ore (DRI) and electric arc furnace (EAF) installations at ArcelorMittal Dofasco in Hamilton, Ontario will reduce carbon emissions by by approximately 3 million tons, which represents approximately 60% of emissions,…
Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) is planning to build a renewable hydrogen production plant using electrolysis technology in Oberhausen, Germany. With a total capacity to reach 30 megawatts (MW), a first phase of the project is expected to be operational by…
Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) have signed a strategic agreement on a joint R&D initiative to reduce the CO2 footprint of the transportation sector. The cooperation aims to develop a new technology to produce advanced bio-propanol…