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Fortescue launches work on its first U.S. green-hydrogen plant

Fortescue (East Perth, Australia) marked a new phase in the development of the company’s $550 million venture into green hydrogen production in the United States, the first of Fortescue’s planned green energy investments in North America with a soil turn…

Bp’s Archaea Energy starts up modular RNG plant in Kansas

Bp plc (London) announced that its Archaea Energy started up its largest original Archaea Modular Design (AMD) renewable natural gas (RNG) plant to date in Shawnee, Kansas, just outside of Kansas City. The plant, which is fully-owned by Archaea, is…

LyondellBasell selects location for integrated plastics-recycling facility

LyondellBasell Industries  (LYB; Rotterdam, the Netherlands) has secured a location for an integrated plastic-waste recycling hub south of an existing industrial park in Knapsack, Germany, signing a land lease agreement with YNCORIS GmbH & Co. KG. The hub is planned…

Carbios breaks ground on first PET biorecycling plant

Carbios (St-Beauzire, France) held a groundbreaking ceremony for the world's first PET biorecycling plant in the presence of representatives of local authorities, partner brands and industrial partners who all make up Carbios’ ecosystem. Located in Longlaville, in the Grand-Est region…

Dow, Henkel and Kraton collaborate to lower carbon footprint for adhesive manufacturing

Dow (Midland, Mich.), Henkel Adhesive Technologies (Dusseldorf, Germany), and Kraton Corp. (Houston), have achieved a reduction in product carbon footprint for two of Henkel’s North American flagship products for end-of-line packaging: TECHNOMELT SUPRA 100 and TECHNOMELT SUPRA 106M. TECHNOMELT SUPRA…

OMV Petrom to trial novel carbon-capture process at Petrobrazi refinery

OMV Petrom S.A. (Bucharest, Romania), the largest integrated energy producer in Southeastern Europe, will test a new carbon capture and utilization technology at the Petrobrazi refinery, starting June. The tests are part of a demonstration campaign carried out in three…

Hydrogen R&D facility opens at the University of Texas

Frontier Energy, GTI Energy  and the Center for Electromechanics at The University of Texas at Austin hosted the grand opening of a hydrogen research and demonstration facility. It was developed as part of the “Demonstration and Framework for H2@Scale in…

Technip Energies and Anellotech to jointly develop advanced plastics-recycling technology

Technip Energies (Paris) and Anellotech, Inc. announced that they have signed a global joint-development agreement to work cooperatively to further develop and then license Anellotech’s Plas-TCat process, a one-step thermal-catalytic recycling technology that converts mixed plastic wastes back into its…

Novoloop and Aether achieve continuous operations at first-of-its-kind recycling pilot plant

Novoloop (Menlo Park, Calif.; www.novoloop.com) announced the successful startup of its pilot plant in India. In collaboration with Aether Industries, a publicly-listed specialty chemicals manufacturer, the pilot plant’s groundbreaking in Surat was announced in January 2024. Construction was completed in…

Technip Energies awarded FEED contract for CCS project at major waste-to-energy plant in the U.K.

Technip Energies (Paris) has been awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by Viridor for the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project at one of the United Kingdom’s largest Energy-from-Waste facilities in Runcorn, United Kingdom. The project aims to capture…