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New precious-metals recycling facility prepares to start up in Tennessee

Regenx Tech Corp. received the occupancy permit for its first facility in Greeneville, Tennessee. This permit allowed the commissioning of Module 1 to begin. The commissioning process includes the testing of all the components and will start with processing smaller…

Cemvita opens biomanufacturing pilot plant in Houston

Cemvita  Inc. (Houston) announced the opening of a pilot plant in Houston, TX. The plant marks a landmark step in the development of technology for using CO2 emissions as feedstock to produce valuable biocommodities including fertilizer, plastic, methane, and fuels.…

Technip Energies awarded contract for LanzaTech’s U.K. SAF facility

Technip Energies (Paris) announced the award of a contract for the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) phase of LanzaTech’s DRAGON Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Project based on LanzaJet Alcohol to Jet (ATJ) Technology, on track to be one of the…

Sunfire installs high-temperature electrolyzer at Neste’s Rotterdam refinery

Sunfire has successfully installed the world's first multi-megawatt high-temperature electrolyzer for the production of green hydrogen at Neste's renewable products refinery in Rotterdam. Having met the refinery's highest quality requirements, Sunfire has now achieved mechanical completion of the electrolysis system.…

Axens acquires stake in BioTJet renewable fuels project

Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) has acquired stakes in the BioTJet project, the aim of which is to build and operate the largest European Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production unit using the Fischer-Tropsch process, relying on the BioTfueL technology. This unit will…

Gevo and LG Chem to jointly develop bio-propylene technology platform

Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) and LG Chem (Seoul, South Korea) have entered into a joint development agreement to develop bio-propylene for renewable chemicals using Gevo’s Ethanol-to-Olefins (ETO) technology. Gevo’s proprietary ETO technology can target carbon neutral or carbon negative drop-in…

Linde and Heidelberg Materials Announce Large-Scale Carbon Capture Project

Heidelberg Materials and Linde GmbH (Pullach, both Germany) have established a joint venture (JV) under the name Capture-to-Use (CAP2U) to build and operate a state-of-the-art carbon dioxide capture and liquefaction plant. The world's first industrial-scale carbon capture and utilization (CCU)…

Teijin Frontier develops new technology to support polyester recycling

Teijin Frontier Co., Ltd., the Teijin Group’s fibers and products converting company, announced that it has developed a new foreign material removal technology to eliminate polyurethane (PU) elastomer fiber from discarded polyester apparel.  The technology features a new processing agent…

Arkema announces decarbonization progress at sulfur derivatives site in France

Arkema SA (Colombes, France) has announced the successful commissioning of a new process at the Lacq/Mourenx site, which will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 28%, moving forward Arkema’s emissions reduction plan. Arkema's Lacq/Mourenx (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France) platform specializes in the…

KBR’s ammonia technology selected by Avina Green Hydrogen

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that its K-GreeN technology has been selected by Avina Clean Hydrogen for its green ammonia project in the U.S. Under the terms of the contracts, KBR will provide the process technology license and engineering design for…