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BASF and X-ELIO sign power purchase agreement to supply Freeport site with renewable energy

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and X-ELIO have signed a 12-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to supply 48 megawatts (MW) of solar power to BASF’s Verbund site in Freeport, Texas. With this agreement in place, 100% of the site’s expected purchased…

ALPLA and PTTGC open plastics-recycling plant in Thailand

Following 18 months of construction and installation, the ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria) and PTT Global Chemical PLC (PTTGC; Bangkok, Thailand) have opened the state-of-the-art ENVICCO recycling plant in Thailand. With an annual production capacity of 45,000 metric tons of recycled…

Encina delivers first high-purity aromatics made entirely from end-of-life plastics

Encina Development Group (The Woodlands, Tex.) announced the first-ever production of high purity aromatics made entirely from end-of-life mixed plastics. Encina has delivered its high purity monomer chemicals to customers and confirms that ongoing production will continue. David Roesser, PhD,…

Dow and Mura Technology plan to locate major advanced-recycling facility at Dow’s site in Böhlen, Germany

Dow (Midland, Mich.) and plastics recycling pioneer Mura Technology announced the next step in their ongoing collaboration to help solve the global plastics waste issue and advance circularity. Mura plans to construct a new facility at Dow's Böhlen site in…

HydrogenPro announces delivery of world-scale electrolyzer

HydrogenPro has announced that what is said to be the world’s largest electrolyzer has arrived at HydrogenPro’s test facility at Herøya, Norway. "This project is a critical milestone for large, green hydrogen projects. It requires substantial planning, rigging and the…

Plug Power to provide 10 PEM electrolyzer units for Lhyfe

Green hydrogen firm Lhyfe has placed an order for ten 5-MW European manufactured PEM (proton exchange membrane) electrolyzer systems with Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.) for production of green hydrogen across multiple plants in Europe. This is the largest electrolyzer order…

KBR awarded study for renewable power system upgrade using green ammonia technology

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a study to develop a carbon-neutral, green ammonia-based power system for a semi-submersible drilling unit owned by Odfjell. KBR will collaborate with Odfjell, Equinor and Wärtsilä to assess conversion of the…

BASF and Samsung Heavy Industries collaborate on carbon capture & storage

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (SHI) will carry out a collaborative feasibility assessment of capturing CO2 onboard maritime vessels using BASF’s OASE blue technology for flue gas applications. Towards this end, both parties signed a…

Synhelion and Wood collaborate on solar technology milestone

Swiss clean energy company Synhelion S.A. (Lugano, Switzerland) recently announced a major milestone by becoming the first company in the world to successfully produce syngas on an industrial scale using only solar heat as an energy source, through their innovative…

Metso Outotec wins contract in Australia for a hydrogen-based concentrate-reduction study

TNG Ltd., an Australian resource company, has awarded Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) a study to reduce Mount Peake Ti-V magnetite concentrate using Circored technology, which uses hydrogen as its only reductant source. As part of the study, Metso Outotec will…