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Metso Outotec to provide solvent extraction technology for Li-Cycle’s battery recycling plant in New York

Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has signed an agreement with Li-Cycle North America Hub Inc. for the supply of manganese, cobalt, and nickel solvent extraction technology for a battery recycling plant to be built in Rochester, New York, United States.…

OMV scales up ReOil advanced recycling process for new demonstration plant

OMV AG (Vienna, Austria) has taken the final investment decision to build a chemical recycling demo plant, based on its proprietary ReOil technology. With this, OMV is taking the next step toward an industrial-scale plant planned for 2026. The patented…

Cyclyx selects U.S. Gulf Coast for advanced plastics-recycling plant

 Cyclyx International LLC., a consortium-based feedstock management company with a mission to increase the recycling rate of plastic from 10% to 90%, has announced it is developing a first-of-its-kind plastic recovery facility to process waste plastics for committed offtake associated…

Kraton receives ISCC PLUS certification for renewable styrenic block copolymers

Kraton Corp. (Houston) announced that it has received the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS certification to produce ISCC Plus Certified renewable styrenic block copolymers (SBC) at their Berre, France facility. ISCC PLUS certification is a globally-recognized system that provides traceability…

Chevron Phillips announces equity investments in circular-plastics companies Nexus Circular and Mura Technology

Six Pines Investments LLC, a wholly-owned, sustainable investment subsidiary of Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC (CPChem; The Woodlands, Tex.) announced its equity investment in two leading circular plastics recyclers, Nexus Circular LLC and Mura Technology Ltd. In October 2020, CPChem announced…

Versalis and BTS Biogas announce new technology for biomethane production

Versalis S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese), Eni’s chemical company, and BTS Biogas, an Italian company in the building and managing sector of biogas plants, have agreed to develop and commercialize an innovative technology for the production of biogas and biomethane from…

Honeywell to commercialize carbon-capture technology developed at University of Texas

Honeywell (Charlotte, N.C.) plans to commercialize carbon capture technology created by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin that holds the promise of significantly reducing carbon dioxide emissions from many industrial sources. The technology reduces the cost of capturing…

Engie and Equinor sign MOU to develop low-carbon hydrogen projects

Engie S.A. (La Défense, Courbevoie, France) and Equinor Energy AS (Stavanger, Norway)  announced an MoU to develop low carbon hydrogen projects together. Now the two companies move forward and announce the H2BE project which aims to develop production of low-carbon…

Linde and Hive Hydrogen detail green-H2 and ammonia project in South Africa

Hive Hydrogen and Linde plc announced the establishment of a 780,000 ton/year $4.6bn Green Ammonia Plant with its own dedicated power supply at the Coega Special Economic Zone alongside the Port of Ngqura in South Africa. There is massive surge…

PKN Orlen to construct bioethanol production plant in Poland

PKN Orlen (Płock, Poland) and ORLEN Południe, an ORLEN Group company, have signed an agreement providing for the construction of an advanced industrial unit that would produce second-generation bioethanol. Located at the Jedlicze refinery, the project would be the first…