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Westlake announces pilot program for recycling PVC medical waste

Westlake Global Compounds and Westlake Dimex, business units of Westlake Corp. (Houston), announced the launch of “Choose Pink,” a pilot polyvinyl chloride (PVC) recycling program with Houston Methodist Hospital. The program is the first-of-its-kind at a health care system in…

MOL Group starts production at green-hydrogen plant in Hungary

MOL Group (Budapest, Hungary) announced that a 10-MW green hydrogen plant, the largest in Central and Eastern Europe, has started production at MOL's Százhalombatta refinery. The facility produces 1,600 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of clean, carbon-neutral green hydrogen which…

Saffire Renewables breaks ground on SAF manufacturing plant in Kansas

SAFFiRE Renewables, LLC (SAFFiRE) broke ground on its pilot plant at Conestoga Energy’s Arkalon Energy facility in Liberal, Kansas, marking a significant step in SAFFiRE’s journey to transform corn stover into an abundant low carbon feedstock for sustainable aviation fuel…

Cory partners with Shell Catalysts & Technologies and Technip Energies to advance carbon capture project

Waste-management and recycling company Cory Group (London) has announced a strategic partnership with Shell Catalysts & Technologies and Technip Energies on its planned carbon capture and storage (CCS) project. Cory is aiming to be net zero by 2030, and capturing…

Bridgestone, Grupo BB&G and Versalis collaborating on closed-loop tire recycling

Bridgestone EMEA (Bridgestone), Grupo BB&G (BB&G) and Versalis (Eni) announced the signing of an agreement aimed at establishing a closed-loop ecosystem to transform end-of-life tires into new tires. The agreement will bring together the innovation, experience and technological skills of…

Indorama establishes joint venture to construct PET recycling plants in India

Indorama Ventures Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand), through its direct subsidiary - IVL Dhunseri Petrochem Industries Limited - and Dhunseri Ventures Limited have formed a joint venture with Varun Beverages Limited, PepsiCo's second-largest bottling company globally outside the US, to establish…

Evonik opens new plant for sustainable emollients at its Steinau, Germany site

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has officially inaugurated its new production plant for cosmetic emollients at its site in Steinau, Germany. These esters are manufactured using an enzymatic process. The double-digit million-euro plant will significantly increase Evonik’s production capacity…

Eni and Snam launch Italy’s first carbon-capture and storage project

Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy; www.eni.com) and Snam S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.snam.it), within the framework of the equal Joint Venture set up for the purpose, announced the commencement of CO2 injection activities in the reservoir for Phase 1 of Ravenna CCS.…

LanzaTech signs master license agreement with Sekisui for waste-to-EtOH platform in Japan

LanzaTech Global, Inc. (Chicago, Ill.; www.lanzatech.com), the carbon recycling company transforming waste carbon into sustainable fuels, chemicals, and materials, has signed a Master License Agreement with Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.sekisuichemical.com) to deploy, at commercial scale, a jointly…

Evonik upgrades to renewable energy for production of high-performance foam

Specialty chemical maker Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has upgraded the production of the high-performance foam ROHACELL® at its main site in Darmstadt, Germany, to use only electricity from renewable energy sources. As a result, Evonik’s High Performance Polymers…