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Axens’ technology selected by Sumitomo Chemical for a waste-to-polyolefins project

Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) and Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) signed a license agreement of ethanol-to-ethylene technology Atol for Sumitomo Chemical’s waste-to-polyolefins project in Japan. In the project Axens’ Atol technology will transform ethanol produced from waste into polymer-grade ethylene that…

Haldor Topsoe technologies selected for Grön Fuels’ new renewable-diesel plant

Grön Fuels, LLC has selected Haldor Topsoe’s (Lyngby, Denmark) HydroFlex renewable fuels and H2bridge bio-hydrogen technologies with bio-carbon capture and sequestration option for a multi-billion low-carbon-intensity complex in Louisiana. The new facility, located at the Port of Greater Baton Rouge,…

LG Chem to run Wuxi cathode-materials plant on 100% renewable power

LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) announced the conclusion of an agreement for the supply of 140 GWh of renewable energy for its cathode-materials factory (Leyou New Energy Materials) in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China from the local wind and solar…

GE Renewable Energy and Veolia partner to recycle decommissioned wind-turbine blades

GE Renewable Energy announced that it has signed a multi-year agreement with Veolia North America (VNA) to recycle blades removed from its U.S.-based onshore turbines during upgrades and repowering efforts. Through this agreement, GE plans to recycle the majority of…

Eni and Saipem join forces for decarbonization projects in Italy

Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) and Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate on the identification and engineering of decarbonization initiatives and projects in Italy. San Donato Milanese, 9 December – Eni's CEO, Claudio…

IndianOil and LanzaTech unveil new CO2-to-lipids technology

IndianOil Corp. Ltd. (IOCL; New Delhi) and LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.) recently announced a breakthrough technology that converts CO2 to biodiesel and omega-3 fatty acids. While elaborating on the novel technology, Mr S M Vaidya, Chairman, IndianOil said "The technology of…

Trio of Belgian firms to develop “e-methane” project

Mining company Carmeuse (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), ENGIE (Brussels, Belgium) and John Cockerill (Seraing, Belgium) have signed a Joint Development Agreement for an innovative Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) project in the Wallonia region of Belgium. This project will concentrate CO2 from…

Enel Green Power and Maire Tecnimont’s NextChem group sign MoU for a green hydrogen plant in the U.S.

Enel Green Power (Rome, Italy), through its North American renewable subsidiary Enel Green Power North America, Inc. (EGPNA), Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy), through its subsidiary dedicated to the deployment of technologies for the energy transition, NextChem, have signed a…

Enerkem, Shell and Suncor partner on Montreal waste-to-biofuels plant

Enerkem (Montréal, Québec, Canada), with a group of strategic partners that includes major investor Shell, along with Suncor and Proman, and Hydro-Québec supplying green hydrogen and oxygen, and with the support of the Québec and Canadian governments, is proud to…

Siemens Energy and Porsche lead consortium to build climate-neutral synthetic-fuels pilot plant in Chile

Siemens Energy, joined by sports car maker Porsche and a lineup of international companies, is developing and implementing a pilot project in Chile that is expected to yield the world’s first integrated, commercial, industrial-scale plant for making synthetic climate-neutral fuels…