Following announcement of a joint development agreement in June 2020, Dow, Inc. (Midland, Mich.) and Shell Chemicals (London, U.K.) now report progress on their technology program to electrically heat steam cracker furnaces. This new route has the potential to significantly…
Covenant Energy Ltd. (Saskatchewan, Canada) has chosen Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex renewable fuel technology to produce clean diesel from vegetable oil. The 6,500 barrels-per-day renewable diesel unit will be built in Saskatchewan, Canada, and is scheduled to go into operation early in…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) and Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) announced a long-term commercial agreement under which LyondellBasell will source Neste RE, a feedstock from Neste that has been produced from 100% renewable feedstock from bio-based sources, such as waste and…
Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo) has entered into a license agreement with Mura Technology, Ltd. pertaining to a process (HydroPRS) for manufacturing raw materials (regenerated oils) for chemical products from plastic wastes. MCC is continuing to consider the conversion of…
TotalEnergies (Paris) announced the launch of the e-CO2Met project at the Hydrogen Lab Leuna together with the electrolyzer manufacturer Sunfire, the Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes CBP and the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS. Methanol can…
Borealis Group AG (Vienna, Austria) has signed an agreement with Renasci Oostende Recycling NV to acquire the entire chemically recycled feedstock output from its high-tech recycling center in Oostende, Belgium. With the projected 20,000-ton/yr output delivered to Borealis, this agreement…
Waste-management specialist Indaver (Mechelen, Belgium) and INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany) announced the first production of “ABrS” — Acylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) in which the styrene component is based on recycled feedstock. The production of ABrS is a significant milestone in…
Avient Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio) is collaborating with Oceanworks to help customers incorporate recycled ocean plastics in their products. Recycled ocean and ocean-bound plastics are those recovered from the ocean, waterways, and ocean-bound collection zones within 50 km of a coastline.…
As part of its efforts to reach carbon neutrality by 2035, Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) is aiming for 100% renewable electricity use globally by 2023. In order to proceed with this target, Neste will increase the use of renewable electricity…
Aemetis, Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.) signed a biofuels offtake agreement with international renewable fuels supplier Murex, LLC for an estimated $200 million of low-carbon biofuels to be delivered during 2021 to 2023. Founded 30 years ago and based in Plano, Texas,…