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Wood designing new carbon-capture plant at Teck Resources smelter in Canada

Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) is supporting Teck Resources Limited (Teck) in piloting a new carbon capture plant at the Teck smelter in Trail, British Columbia.  Now in the detail design phase, this first-of-its-kind solution for capturing carbon from sulfide ores in…

Johnson Matthey and Hystar enter strategic green-hydrogen partnership

Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) and Hystar, a Norwegian high-tech hydrogen company, have signed a three-year strategic supply agreement to ramp up renewable (green) hydrogen production. This delivers on JM’s published milestone of winning at least two strategic partnerships in…

Carbon Clean awards design contract for major carbon-capture project to KBR

Carbon capture solutions provider Carbon Clean (London) has announced the award of a new contract to global engineering experts, KBR, Inc. (Houston) for the detailed design of a carbon capture plant for Ørsted's FlagshipONE project in Sweden. Carbon Clean was…

Dow and New Energy Blue to develop renewable plastic materials from corn residue

Dow (Midland, Mich.) and New Energy Blue announced a long-term supply agreement in North America in which New Energy Blue will create bio-based ethylene from renewable agricultural residues. Dow expects to purchase this bio-based ethylene, reducing carbon emissions from plastic production,…

BASF’s gas-treatment technology to be used by Linde and Heidelberg Materials’ large-scale CO2-capture plant

A CO2 capture process, jointly developed by Heidelberg Materials, Linde GmbH (Pullach) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, all Germany), and based on BASF’s advanced OASE blue technology, will be used for the first time at a large-scale CO2-capture facility operated by…

Neste completes expansion at Singapore refinery to support SAF production

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) announced its final investment decision on additional renewable products production capacity in Singapore in December 2018. The EUR 1.6 billion Singapore Expansion project has been successfully completed, the start-up of the refinery expansion has been completed…

Summit Next Gen to use Honeywell technology for production of SAF

Honeywell announced that it will provide its Ethanol to Jet (ETJ) processing technology to Summit Next Gen, an affiliate of Summit Agricultural Group. Summit Next Gen will utilize Honeywell's ETJ technology to convert low-carbon ethanol into SAF. Honeywell UOP ETJ…

ORLEN Południe successfully operates plant using BASF’s sustainable propylene glycol production technology

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that ORLEN Południe, a leading player in biofuels in Poland, has recently concluded the first year of operation of its BioPG plant, converting glycerol, a by-product of biodiesel production, into renewable propylene glycol (BioPG). BioPG…

Mitsubishi Chemical launches plant-based engineering plastic

The Mitsubishi Chemical Group (MCG Group; Toyko) will begin providing samples of DURABI D93 Series (under development), a new grade of the plant-derived bioengineering plastic DURABI with a higher biobased synthetic polymer content.   DURABIO is a bioengineering plastic made…

Montana Renewables begins sustainable aviation fuel deliveries to Shell

Montana Renewables, LLC (MRL) hosted key aviation stakeholders, including Montana Governor Greg Gianforte, to celebrate the first production and initial shipments of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) under a multi-year agreement with Shell Trading (US) Company (Shell). The start of production…