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Amyris commercializing sugarcane-based silica

Aprinnova, Inc., an Amyris, Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.) joint venture, is commercializing a plant-derived silica made from sugarcane ashes. Silica is used widely in personal care and cosmetics. It is traditionally sourced from non-renewable sand dredging, which requires significant energy consumption…

Kobe Steel, Mitsui and Vale announce collaboration focused on low-CO2 iron processing

Kobe Steel, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan), together with its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, Midrex Technologies, Inc., has reached a non-binding agreement with Vale S.A., the world's largest iron ore producer, and Mitsui & Co., Ltd., a global trading and investment company…

ExxonMobil, Georgia Tech and Imperial College London publish joint research on breakthrough membrane technology

Scientists from ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.), the Georgia Institute of Technology and Imperial College of London have published joint research on potential breakthroughs in a new membrane technology that could reduce emissions and energy intensity associated with refining crude oil.…

Aker Solutions to spin off carbon-capture business

Aker Solutions is launching a series of structural and strategic changes to transform the company and enhance shareholder value by spinning off the wind and carbon capture businesses to shareholders and merging Aker Solutions ASA with Kværner ASA to create…

Linde Signs MoU with China Power to Develop Green Hydrogen Energy in China

Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Beijing Green Hydrogen Technology Development Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Power International Development Ltd., to jointly promote the application and development of green hydrogen in China. Under…

LanzaTech chooses TechnipFMC technology for sustainable aviation fuel

TechnipFMC announced that its proprietary Hummingbird ethanol-to-ethylene technology was selected by LanzaTech Inc. for a key application which, when combined with LanzaTech’s Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ) technology, can be used to manufacture sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) using ethanol as raw material. LanzaTech’s…

Sustainable Construction: Wacker and KIT establish innovative platform

Wacker, a global chemical company, has partnered with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) to build a platform for sustainable construction.  The project known as "ChangeLab! Wacker/KIT Innovation Platform for Pioneering Sustainable Construction," is meant to engage both KIT's students…

CE Voices: Neste’s Sustainability Strategy

In this edition of CE Voices, Chemical Engineering Senior Associate Editor Mary Page Bailey sits down with Theodore Rolfvandenbaumen of Neste US to discuss the company's  acquisition of Mahoney Environmental and the progress Neste is making in ensuring a steady…

HDF and Kenesjay to develop green-hydrogen project in Trinidad & Tobago

Project development and consulting firm Kenesjay Systems Ltd. (Tacarigua, Trinidad & Tobago) has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with French hydrogen specialist HDF Energy to establish a partnership for the development of the NewGen Carbon-Neutral & Green Hydrogen project.…

New CCUS framework in development for Singapore

Keppel Data Centres, Chevron, Pan-United and Surbana Jurong, with the support of the National Research Foundation, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), committing to harness their combined resources and jointly develop the first end-to-end decarbonization process in Singapore. This collaboration…