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LyondellBasell’s van der Laan awarded Winthrop-Sears Medal from The Chemist’s Club in New York

LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) today announced that Yvonne van der Laan, executive vice president of circular and low carbon solutions (CLCS), has been awarded the prestigious Winthrop-Sears medal by The Chemists' Club (New York, N.Y.; www.thechemistsclub.org). The accolade was…

Topsoe selected as technology provider for Triskelion e-methanol project

Topsoe (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com), a global leader in carbon emission reduction technologies, has been chosen as a technology provider and engineering partner for the Triskelion project, located in Galicia, Spain. The project, owned by the Spanish shipping and chemicals company…

PPG completes on-site solar installation at Caivano, Italy facility

PPG Industries (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.ppg.com) today announced the completion of an on-site solar installation at its Caivano, Italy facility that will enable progress toward the company’s 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. The project is part of a partnership with…

Aramco, TotalEnergies, SIRC to assess potential SAF project in Saudi Arabia

Aramco (Dharan, Saudi Arabia; www.aramco.com), one of the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals companies, TotalEnergies (Corbevoie, France; www.totalenergies.com), a global multi-energy company that produces and markets energies, and Saudi Investment Recycling Company (SIRC; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sirc.sa), a major…

Nel Hydrogen signs contract for electrolyzer equipment to Samsung C&T for ‘pink’ hydrogen project

Nel Hydrogen Electrolyser AS, a subsidiary of Nel ASA (Oslo, Norway; www.nelhydrogen.com), has signed a new contract for 10 MW of alkaline electrolyzer equipment for about EUR 5 million with Samsung C&T Corporation Engineering & Construction Group (‘Samsung C&T’) for…

Aramco, Linde and SLB sign agreement for world’s largest CCS hub in Saudi Arabia

Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) has signed a shareholders’ agreement with Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) and SLB (Houston) , paving the way for development of a Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) hub that is expected to become one of the largest…

Topsoe and Sasol selected to deliver e-fuels technology for demonstration plant in Germany

Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) and  Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa) have been selected to deliver technologies for German Aerospace Center’s (DLR) SAF production demonstration plant. Sasol and Topsoe will deliver their G2L (Gas to Liquid) e-fuels technology, integrating Topsoe’s innovative…

LG Chem and Acies Bio to partner on sustainable chemical feedstock development

LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) and Acies Bio (Ljubljana, Slovenia) announced a strategic collaboration to jointly develop sustainable solutions for commercial biomanufacturing. This initiative centers on Acies Bio's OneCarbonBio platform, an advanced synthetic biology platform designed to upcycle one-carbon…

Fluor awarded FEED contract for CCS project at Heidelberg Materials facility in Germany

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced that it has signed a Front-end Engineering and Design (FEED) contract with Heidelberg Materials AG (Heidelberg, Germany) for its GeZero project to integrate an industrial-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) solution into its cement production…

First-of-a-kind hydrogen project employs thermal-plasma electrolysis in cement production

Cemex Ventures, Cemex’s corporate venture capital (CVC) and open innovation unit, announced an initial clean-hydrogen deployment at industrial scale with HiiROC (Hull, U.K.) at its Rugby cement plant in the U.K. Hydrogen has emerged as a low-carbon energy source within…