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HIF Global announces e-methanol project in Brazil

HIF Global (Houston) announced its first project in Brazil, after signing a land reservation contract with Port of Açu, one of Brazil's main ports, to develop a facility to produce up to 800,000 tons per year of e-Methanol. Pursuant to…

Wood to operate and maintain world-scale plastics recycling facility in Ohio

Wood plc (Aberdeen, U.K.) has been awarded a three-year contract to operate and maintain the Freepoint Eco-Systems plant in Hebron, Ohio. The flagship facility spans 25 acres, utilizing a 260,000 square foot warehouse, making it one of the largest advanced…

DOE Announces $15 million federal funding to develop new systems for clean hydrogen production

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) today announced up to $15 million in federal funding to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Specifically,…

Worley providing pre-FEED for Liquid Wind e-methanol facility

Worley Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia) announced that it has entered into an agreement with Liquid Wind (Gothenburg, Sweden) to provide design and engineering services for the development of the NorthStarH2 e-methanol facility in Östersund, Sweden. Worley previously was awarded a…

Woodland Biofuels investing $1.35 billion for RNG and green-hydrogen project in Louisiana

Woodland Biofuels Inc. (Toronto, Ont., Canada) announced a planned $1.35-billion investment at the Port of South Louisiana to establish what is said to be the world's largest carbon-negative renewable natural-gas plant and  ultra-green hydrogen facility.  Phase 1 of this project…

Kemira and IFF complete renewable polymers plant in Finland

As part of their strategic cooperation in providing new renewable alternatives to fossil-based products, Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) and International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF; New York) announced successful completion of a market-entry-scale industrial polymer plant. The unit is capable of…

AE Elemental opens recycling facility for EV batteries in Poland

AE Elemental, a joint venture of U.S.-based Ascend Elements (Westborough, Mass.) and Poland-based Elemental Strategic Metals, announced the grand opening of its first commercial-scale EV battery recycling facility. Located in Zawiercie, Poland, the newly constructed facility can process 12,000 metric…

Mitsui Chemical developing chemical-recycling scheme for ophthalmic lens materials

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) announced the development of a new technology that chemically recycles shavings and waste lenses generated from the production and processing of the company's MR-brand ophthalmic lens materials so that they may be repurposed into MR ophthalmic…

LYB secures renewable-power capacity to reach its 2030 goal

LyondellBasell (LYB; Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced that it signed a power purchase agreement with Eneco N.V. This agreement brings LYB’s total secured renewable electricity capacity to 100% of its renewable electricity procurement target. “Taking climate action is a key part…

UPM Biochemicals and Södra accelerate the commercialization of new lignin-based products

UPM Biochemicals will be among the first customers to receive kraft lignin from Södra when the forest-owner association’s plant in Mönsterås comes on stream in 2027. Södra’s new plant will be the first commercial kraft lignin production facility in Sweden…