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Technip Energies partners with Svante to develop industrial-scale carbon capture projects

Technip Energies (Paris) and Svante have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further develop Svante, Inc.’s (Burnaby, B.C., Canada; www svanteinc.com) solid sorbent carbon capture technology and provide integrated solutions from concept to project delivery. The partnership will…

Viridos executes agreement with ExxonMobil to scale algae biofuels

Viridos Inc., previously Synthetic Genomics, a privately held biotechnology company harnessing the power of photosynthesis to create transformative solutions to help mitigate climate change, has signed a joint agreement with ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co. (ExxonMobil) with the intent to…

Eni and BF Group form biorefining joint venture

Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy)  and the BF Group announced a partnership to develop sustainable agricultural products for biofuel production. Through an equal joint venture (50% Eni, 50% BF), projects will be developed to research and experiment with agricultural seeds from…

Air Liquide and BASF welcome support from European Innovation Fund for joint CCS project

Air Liquide S.A. (Paris, France) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) are planning to develop the world’s largest cross-border carbon capture and storage (CCS) value chain. The goal is to significantly reduce CO2 emissions at the industrial cluster in the port…

Ecolab launches technology platform for advanced recycled-plastic feedstocks

Nalco Water, Ecolab’s water and process management business for industrial customers, has launched a new program for refineries, ethylene producers and chemical recyclers of plastic waste. The program offers an end-to-end suite of chemistries and field expertise that are unique…

LG Chem and GS Caltex to jointly develop biodegradable-plastics technologies

LG Chem Ltd. and GS Caltex (both Seoul, South Korea) will team up to jointly develop mass production technologies of eco-friendly materials for a circulating economy and carbon neutrality. LG Chem signed Joint Development Agreement (JDA) related to the development…

Celanese and Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials jointly developing recycling technologies for acetal copolymer

Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.) and Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials (MCAM), a leading global manufacturer of high-performance thermoplastic materials in the form of semi-finished products and finished parts,  announced a joint collaboration to further develop mechanical recycling solutions for both post-industrial…

Neste awarded €88-million grant for green hydrogen and CCS projects at Porvoo refinery

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) announced that the EU Innovation Fund has given a positive grant decision of €88-million funding to Neste’s green hydrogen and CO2 capture & storage project, which aims to quickly and efficiently reduce greenhouse gas emissions at…

Haldor Topsoe and Green Fuel enter into MoU to develop scalable technologies for green ammonia

Icelandic hydrogen and ammonia company Green Fuel and Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which will see the companies partnering to identify efficient and scalable technologies for the production of green ammonia in Iceland. The…

SK Innovation to use Honeywell UOP technology for carbon capture and sequestration

SK Innovation and Energy (Seoul, South Korea) has selected Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.) for a feasibility study to retrofit SK’s hydrogen plant with carbon capture. SK will explore capturing and sequestering 400,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from existing…