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Cummins’ Accelera business begins operations at electrolyzer plant in Minnesota

Accelera by Cummins, the zero-emissions business segment of Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.), marked the start of operations for electrolyzer production in Fridley, Minnesota – its first electrolyzer production site in the United States. U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm,…

Sulzer signs agreement with Jindan New Biomaterials for production of bioplastics

Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) recently signed an agreement with major lactic acid (LA) producer, Jindan New Biomaterials (Jindan), to enable the production of polylactic acid (PLA), a biobased plastic. Jindan will utilize Sulzer’s licensed PLA technology at its new manufacturing…

Plug Power awarded three electrolyzer projects in Europe

Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.) announced that it has landed three five megawatt (MW) electrolyzer projects with Ardagh Glass Limmared AB, Hydro Havrand, and the APEX Group for the first-ever use of industrial-scale green hydrogen in glass manufacturing, aluminum recycling,…

Koch Engineered Solutions and Chart Industries collaborating on CCUS projects

Koch Engineered Solutions LLC (KES) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Chart Industries, Inc., a leading diversified global manufacturer of highly engineered cryogenic equipment and processes for the industrial gas and other industries, positioning both companies to provide…

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…