GranBio S.A. (São Paulo), a 100% Brazilian industrial biotechnology company, and NextChem, Maire Tecnimont S.p.A.’s (Rome, Italy) subsidiary for energy transition announced a strategic partnership to achieve global leadership in the licensing of patented GranBio 2G Ethanol technology to produce…
Ragn-Sells AB (Sollentuna, Sweden; www.ragnsells.com) has partnered Hitachi Zosen Inova AG (Zürich, Switzerland; www.hz-inova.com) for the construction of a new plant that is designed to extract resources from flyash — a toxic byproduct of waste incinerators that normally ends up…
Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo) recently decided to acquire two German carbon-fiber recycling companies, CFK Valley Stade Recycling GmbH & Co. KG (CFK) and carboNXT GmbH (carboNXT), through its subsidiary Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials AG (MCAM; Zurich, Switzerland), as a…
SABIC’s polycarbonate facility in Cartagena, Spain, is set to become the world’s first large-scale chemical production site to be run entirely on renewable power, following the signing of a major agreement with Iberdrola, a world-scale electric utility company. Iberdrola will…
Hydrogen power is gaining ground quickly in many applications, and recent breakthroughs have proven its efficacy in datacenter use. Power Innovations (American Fork, Utah) and Microsoft recently announced a breakthrough in renewable energy: hydrogen fuel cells were successfully used to…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has become the first chemical company to provide transparent emission data for the entire portfolio of approximately 45,000 products. BASF will provide its customers with total values of CO2 emissions, so called “carbon footprints” for all…
In this edition of CE Voices, Chemical Engineering Senior Associate Editor Mary Page Bailey sits down with Alan Schrob of NOVA Chemicals to discuss the company's development of a new polyethylene resin aimed at improving the recyclability of plastic films…
Portuguese energy company Galp joins EDP, Martifer, REN, Vestas and several other European partners to assess the feasibility of the H2 Sines project, which aims to implement an industrial cluster for green hydrogen production based in Sines. The project has…
BMW Group has announced plans for a new pilot plant that will produce lithium-ion battery (LIB) cells. With this plant, the company is taking the next logical step in penetrating all aspects of the battery cell value chain: from selection…
The Alliance to End Plastic Waste and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), launch the Aviral – Reducing Plastic Waste in the Ganga pilot project. This initiative aims to reduce the amount of plastic waste entering the environment in the…