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BP makes final investment decision for green hydrogen project at Lingen refinery

Bp plc (London) has made the final investment decision (FID) for the “Lingen Green Hydrogen” project. The company wants to achieve a significant milestone on the path to the development of green hydrogen on an industrial scale in Germany. Supported…

Vitol acquires majority stake in plastics recycling firm WPU

Vitol B.V. (Geneva, Switzerland) has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire a controlling interest in Waste Plastic Upcycling A/S (WPU). On completion, which is subject to certain conditions precedent, Vitol will own 90.36% of the share capital of WPU.…

BASF, Endress+Hauser and research partners collaborate to optimize mechanical recycling of plastics

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has teamed up with Endress+Hauser Ltd. (Reinach, Switzerland) and TechnoCompound (Bad Sobernheim, Germany), as well as the Universities of Bayreuth and Jena to study how the mechanical recycling of plastics can be improved. With funding from…

Electric smelting furnace pilot plant for iron making to be located in Western Australia

Australia’s two largest iron-ore miners and its biggest steelmaker have selected the Kwinana Industrial Area, south of Perth, as the location to develop Australia’s largest ironmaking electric smelting furnace (ESF) pilot plant. The groundbreaking project combines the expertise of BlueScope…

Dow and Innventure to commercialize new waste-to-energy technologies

Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) and Innventure (Orlando, Fla.; www.innventure.com), a technology commercialization platform, today announced plans to collaborate to develop and commercialize new waste-to-value technologies. The collaboration aims to enable globally scalable, cost-effective conversion of mixed wastes to…

Toray to construct pilot facility to produce new all-carbon CO2-separation membranes

Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) will install a pilot facility for its all-carbon carbon dioxide (CO2) separation membrane at its Shiga Plant. An all-carbon CO2-separation membrane owes its high performance to a dual-layer structure, comprising a thin carbon-film separation layer on…

Fortera and Sumitomo Corporation to partner on low-carbon cement projects in Asia

Green cement manufacturer Fortera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.) is partnering with multinational Sumitomo Corp. (Tokyo) to position the market for widespread adoption of Fortera’s carbon-reducing ReCarb technology. The two companies have agreed to a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to focus on…

Hysata and POSCO partner to advance high-efficiency electrolyzer technology

Hysata Pty. Ltd. (Wollongong, Australia) has entered two Joint Development Agreements (JDA) with POSCO Holdings Inc. (Pohang-si, South Korea) and POSCO Eco & Challenge (POSCO E&C). These collaborations aim to advance the development and deployment of Hysata’s next-generation electrolyzer technology.…

Baker Hughes and the University of California, Berkeley establish Global Decarbonization Research Institute

Baker Hughes, Inc. (Houston) and the University of California, Berkeley have announced a new long-term research partnership to establish the Baker Hughes Institute for Decarbonization Materials at UC Berkeley’s College of Chemistry. The institute will connect breakthrough academic research with…

Phillips 66 teams with NextEra Energy Resources to power Rodeo Renewable Energy Complex with solar facility

Phillips 66, Inc. (Houston) is teaming up with a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC to power Phillips 66’s Rodeo Renewable Energy Complex with a 30.2 megawatt (MW) solar facility. The solar facility will reduce the complex’s grid power demand…