Wood plc (Aberdeen, U.K.) has been awarded the front-end engineering design (FEED) scope for the Zeevonk hydrogen facility, in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The hydrogen plant will be powered by offshore wind and floating offshore solar from the Zeevonk offshore developments. The…
Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) announced that four of its U.S. sites have reached net-zero Scope 2 electricity emissions through the allocation of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). This achievement is a result of Covestro's existing virtual Power Purchase Agreement (vPPA) with…
Blue Whale Materials (BWM; Bartlesville, Okla.), a leader in lithium-ion battery recycling, announced a strategic partnership today with Call2Recycle, the leading battery stewardship organization in North America. As a result of the partnership, Blue Whale Materials’ state-of-the-art sorting and recycling…
Recycling lithium-ion batteries to recover their critical metals has significantly lower environmental impacts than mining virgin metals, according to a new Stanford University lifecycle analysis published in Nature Communications. On a large scale, recycling could also help relieve the long-term…
The Global Impact Coalition (GIC), a CEO-led collaborative platform originally incubated at the World Economic Forum, has launched the world’s first Automotive Plastics Circularity pilot together with seven global leaders in the chemical and recycling industries—BASF, Covestro, LyondellBasell, Mitsubishi Chemical…
Wood plc (Aberdeen, U.K.) has been selected to provide operations and maintenance solutions for MTR Carbon Capture at the world’s largest membrane-based carbon capture plant in Gillette, Wyoming. The facility, which is based at the Wyoming Integrated Test Center (ITC)…
Zeon Corp. (Tokyo) and Yokohawa Rubber Co. (Hiratsuka, Japan) have agreed to establish a bench-scale facility to demonstrate a new technology for producing butadiene from ethanol derived from plant-based and other sustainable materials with high efficiency. The facility will be…
Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) has announced two large-scale electrolyzer projects to produce renewable and low-carbon hydrogen in Europe. In the first project, ELYgator, an Air Liquide 200-MW electrolyzer will supply both TotalEnergies’ industrial platform and other European industrial and heavy-duty…
MOL Group (Budapest, Hungary) has produced a diesel fuel containing hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at the refinery of Slovnaft in Bratislava. The quality of the products has been verified by radioisotope analysis by the independent…
LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) is entering the global market with eco-friendly raw materials derived from vegetable oils. The company announced that it will commence the production of bio-acrylic acid in the second quarter of this year. Production capacity…