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Eramet inaugurates battery-recycling pilot plant near Paris

Eramet (Paris) is inaugurating a pilot plant at its Research & Innovation center close to Paris (Trappes) to test and optimize the production of battery-grade metal salts from black mass from recycled lithium-ion batteries. This facility is a 1:1,000 scale…

Asahi Kasei, Gentari and JGC join forces for green hydrogen project in Malaysia

Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo), Gentari Hydrogen Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of PETRONAS clean energy arm Gentari Sdn Bhd (Gentari), and JGC Holdings Corporation (JGC) today announced the completion of a detailed feasibility study for production of up to 8,000…

Technip Energies announces formation of textile-recycling JV with IBM and Under Armour

Technip Energies (Paris) announced the creation of Reju, a new company focused on PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) recycling (rPET) of textiles that will leverage the innovative technology co-developed in joint-venture with IBM and Under Armour as well as Technip Energies’ global…

Thyssenkrupp Uhde and DL E&C selected to deliver FEED for green-hydrogen project in Western Australia

thyssenkrupp Uhde (Dortmund, Germany), in partnership with DL E&C (formerly Daelim Industrial) and its affiliate (CARBONCO), has been selected by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners P/S (CIP) on behalf of Murchison Hydrogen Renewables Pty Ltd, to deliver a pre-FEED to support the…

ExxonMobil announces lithium extraction project in Arkansas

Exxon Mobil Corp. (Houston)  announced plans to become a leading producer of lithium, a key component of electric vehicle (EV) batteries. Work has begun for the company’s first phase of North America lithium production in southwest Arkansas, an area known…

BASF and Sinopec jointly inaugurate Verbund plant expansion in Nanjing

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and SINOPEC inaugurated the expanded downstream chemical plants at the Verbund site operated by BASF-YPC Co., Ltd. (BASF-YPC), a 50-50 joint venture of both companies in Nanjing. The expansion is a strategic response to the growing…

CVR Renewables selects Honeywell technology for potential biofuels site in Kansas

Honeywell International Inc. announced that CVR Renewables CVL, LLC, a subsidiary of CVR Energy, Inc., will utilize Honeywell’s Ecofining technology in its evaluation of a potential project to produce biofuels from feedstocks such as distillers corn oil, at its facility…

TESCanada announces new green-hydrogen project in Quebec

TESCanada H2 Inc. (Montreal, Queb., Canada), a Canadian developer of projects aimed at accelerating the energy transitio has announced the new green-hydrogen initative Projet Mauricie. Totaling $4 billion in investments for the region, the Projet Mauricie consists of the construction…

AGC demonstrates recycling of used solar-panel glass

AGC, Inc. (Tokyo) has announced that it has succeeded for the first time in Japan in a demonstration test to recycle about 24 tons of used solar panel cover glass into raw material cullet (pieces of broken glass). The test…

Sulzer supplying mass-transfer technology for CO2-capture plant in Austria

Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland)  announced that its mass transfer technologies are being leveraged by Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany) , the world's largest privately owned industrial gas specialist, in collaboration with a manufacturer of inorganic chemicals to enable innovative…