Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) has agreed to start studying a possible business alliance with Rever Holdings Corp., a major Japanese integrated recycling company engaged in the management of scrap metal and other recyclable waste from used cars and home…
NextChem, a subsidiary of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy), and Paul Wurth, a company of the SMS Group and leading technology provider for the steel industry, will join forces to promote the combined use of electrolysis and syngas production in the iron and…
Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has received an order for the engineering and delivery of key equipment for the expansion of a precious-metals recycling plant. Metso Outotec’s equipment delivery consists of a direct-current (DC) furnace with feeding equipment and process…
Bechtel (Reston, Va.) has entered into a partnership with renewable energy company Drax Group to identify opportunities to construct new Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) power plants around the world. Drax currently has the largest decarbonization project in…
Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) is cooperating with recycling specialist carboNXT to tackle the recycling of Covestro’s continuous fiber-reinforced polycarbonate composites (CFRTPs). Covestro’s Maezio brand of CFRTPs are characterized by their extremely light weight, high strength and flexibility of design. This means…
Cargill, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minn.) and chemical marketing company HELM (Hamburg, Germany) are entering into a joint venture, Qore, to help leading brands replace fossil-based chemistries with bio-based intermediates, enabling them to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. As part of the…
Brightmark (San Francisco, Calif.) announced that it will build the world’s largest advanced plastics recycling and renewal facility in Macon-Bibb County, Georgia. The total investment is expected to be more than $680 million in a new plant intended to fully…
Alpek S.A.B. de C.V. (San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico) and Indorama Ventures Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand)have each acquired plastics recycling facilities from CarbonLite Recycling LLC. Alpek has acquired CarbonLite’s Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) recycling and pelletization facility in Reading, Pennsylvania.The site…
With the desire to improve the circularity of large-format additive manufacturing (LFAM), SABIC (Jubail, Saudi Arabia) and Local Motors, a next-generation vehicle manufacturer, completed a joint study on the feasibility of recycling scrap thermoplastic parts and shavings from the 3D…
Lummus Technology (Houston) and Energy Internet Corp. (EIC) announced an agreement to collaborate in developing technology to store and generate electrical power for the data center market using compressed or liquefied air. This technology will provide long-duration energy storage, using…