Sustainability
Asahi Kasei starts joint demonstration project for recycling metals from electrolyzer components
Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo) has started a joint demonstration with Nobian, Furuya Metal, and Mastermelt on the recycling of metals, including precious metals, used in the cells and electrodes incorporated in electrolyzers used for the production of caustic soda. Through…
Cyclic Materials to build first commercial magnet-recycling facility in Arizona
Cyclic Materials Inc. (Toronto, Ont., Canada) announced it has invested over $20 million in its first commercial facility, located in Mesa, Arizona. The new state-of-the-art facility will be the company’s first global REE recycling operation focused on the separation of…
Altilium Metals breaks ground on the U.K.’s first large-scale battery-recycling plant
Altilium Metals Ltd. (Plymouth, U.K.) announced that construction has begun on the U.K.’s first at-scale EV battery recycling facility with integrated chemical refining capabilities, located in Plymouth, Devon. The groundbreaking ACT 3 scale-up plant will place the UK at the…
Technip Energies awarded FEED contract for Jet Zero Australia SAF project
Technip Energies (Paris) has been awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by Jet Zero Australia Pty Ltd (Jet Zero) for Project Ulysses, a bioethanol to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) project located in Townsville, Australia. The FEED covers an extensive…
Olin and Plug Power commission hydrogen liquefaction plant in Louisiana
Olin Corp. (Clayton, Mo.) announced that Hidrogenii, the joint venture between Olin and Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.), commissioned its 15 ton/d hydrogen liquefaction plant in St. Gabriel, Louisiana. Among the largest electrolytic hydrogen liquefaction facilities in North America, the…
CO280 signs landmark agreement with Microsoft to scale-up carbon dioxide removal in the U.S. pulp and paper industry
CO280 Solutions, Inc. (Vancouver, B.C., Canada), a leading developer of large-scale projects for CO2 removal in the pulp and paper industry, announced a historic offtake agreement with Microsoft from a project that will capture and permanently store biogenic carbon emissions…
KBR to provide ammonia cracking technology for Hanwha Impact hydrogen plant
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a second ammonia cracking technology contract by Hanwha Impact Corp. for its clean power generation facility in Korea. Under the terms of the agreement, KBR will provide technology licensing, proprietary engineering…
Sumitomo and ABB join forces to explore decarbonization of mining machinery
ABB Inc. (Zurich, Switzerland) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement with the Construction and Mining Systems Strategic Business Unit (SBU) of Sumitomo Corp. (Tokyo), the Japan-headquartered industrial group. The two companies will collaborate to explore joint solutions for…
Primetals Technologies, Mitsubishi, voestalpine and Rio Tinto to implement hydrogen-based ironmaking plant
Primetals Technologies Ltd. (London, U.K.), together with its strategic partner Mitsubishi Corp. (Tokyo), Rio Tinto plc (London) and steel and technology group voestalpine (Linz, Austria) signed a cooperation agreement to fast-track the development of fluidized-bed and smelter technologies. The participants…
Trinseo and MagREEsource collaborating on advanced recycling opportunities for plastics and magnetic systems
Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.) and MagREEsource are exploring collaborative opportunities for innovative, high value recycling solutions. This arrangement will explore opportunities for combining Trinseo’s proprietary polymer dissolution recycling capabilities with MagREEsource’s proprietary rare earth magnets recycling model. A Memorandum of Understanding…