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DOMO Chemicals and Siemens Smart Infrastructure validate new electrical-safety polyamide containing recycled content

Siemens Smart Infrastructure and DOMO Chemicals (Leuna, Germany) announced a significant milestone in their joint effort to promote sustainable practices in the electrical industry. DOMO Chemicals has successfully developed and validated a new, high-performance TECHNYL® 4EARTH® polyamide 6 (PA6) material to…

Wastefront breaks ground on U.K.’s first facility recycling end-of-life tires into fuels

Wastefront AS (Oslo, Norway) announced that it has officially commenced construction on its groundbreaking £100 million tire-to-fuel facility at the Port of Sunderland. The project marks a significant step in the U.K.’s push for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production, while…

Syensqo successfully demonstrates recycling of multilayer PVDC

Syensqo S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) announced the successful completion of an ambitious recycling initiative. The results of comprehensive trials have  proven that multilayer food packaging structures with Ixan polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC) can effectively be recycled into valuable feedstock for other applications…

Finland’s first industrial-scale green-hydrogen plant goes into operation

Electrolyzer manufacturer Sunfire and P2X Solutions, a Finnish pioneer in green hydrogen and Power-to-X technologies, announced the commissioning of the production plant in Harjavalta. The Sunfire electrolyzer is Finland’s first industrial plant for the commercial production of green hydrogen. Nils…

Zeon advances sustainable fuels ambitions with Aether Fuels investment

Zeon Corp. (Tokyo), through its venture capital arm Zeon Ventures Inc., has invested in Aether Fuels Pte. Ltd. (Aether), a Singapore/U.S.-based startup developing a breakthrough production technology for scalable and cost-competitive sustainable liquid fuels. Alongside this investment, Zeon will proactively…

TotalEnergies commissions its 8th biomethane plant in France

TotalEnergies SE (Paris) announces the commissioning of BioNorrois, its 8th biomethane production unit in France, located in Fontaine-le-Dun (Normandy). It will inject 153 GWh of biomethane per year into the natural gas transport network operated by NaTran equivalent to the…

Covestro commissions new emissions-reduction project at nitric acid plant in Baytown

Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) recently made significant progress towards its scope 1 climate neutrality goal for its Baytown, TX site. A newly commissioned project, known as NAUCI (Nitric Acid Unit Climate Initiative), reduces greenhouse gas emissions from the site’s Nitric…

Ceramics UK operates pilot kiln entirely on hydrogen fuel

Ceramics UK, the trade association for the U.K. ceramics industry, announced a landmark achievement in its  ‘Demonstrating Hydrogen in the Ceramics Sector’ project. The project's custom-built pilot kiln, designed to explore the use of hydrogen as an alternative fuel for…

Saint-Gobain deploys Fives’ hybrid heating technology to accelerate decarbonization of its plant in Biandrate, Italy

Combustion specialist Fives (Paris, France) installed its first e-Ductflame hybrid burner in Saint-Gobain's h-old site in Biandrate, Italy, which produces pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes. Fives' e-Ductflame technology represents the Group’s first patented hybrid e-burner, which allows the replacement of natural gas…

Funding secured for significant ethanol-to-SAF project in Japan

LanzaJet, a producer and technology provider for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), announced that Cosmo Oil Co. (Tokyo) has been selected for a subsidy from Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) to support a project developed with Mitsui &…