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Protium announces expansion of green-hydrogen project in Teesside, U.K.

Green hydrogen company Protium (London, U.K.) announced that it is expanding capacity at its flagship Tees Valley Net Zero hydrogen project to nearly 70 MW. The company announced its flagship green hydrogen project last year, located on Wilton Universal Group’s…

Sumitomo Chemical announces pilot-scale recycling facility for automotive waste plastics

Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) announced that it will introduce a pilot-scale mechanical waste processing facility in an effort to develop a material recycling business using waste plastics collected from end-of-life automobiles. The Company will start providing samples of recycled…

Biotrend Energy to build waste-plastics recycling plant in Turkey

Honeywell says that Biotrend Energy (Istanbul, Turkey) will apply Honeywell’s UpCycle process technology in Biotrend Energy’s planned plastics recycling factory in Turkey. The facility will convert mixed waste plastics into recycled polymer feedstock (RPF), enabling the development of a circular…

Lhyfe and Plug Power begin production at world’s first offshore green-H2 electrolysis unit

Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.) and Lhyfe announced the world’s first production of hydrogen at sea on a floating platform with a Plug state-of the-art 1-megawatt electrolyzer on an offshore green hydrogen production site in Saint-Nazaire, France. Plug’s electrolyzer will…

Givaudan and LanzaTech to develop renewable fragrance ingredients

Fragrance manufacturer Givaudan and LanzaTech NZ Inc. (Skokie, Ill.) have announced a collaboration for the development of sustainable fragrance ingredients from renewable carbon. Renewable carbon is carbon that avoids or substitutes the use of additional fossil carbon. Examples include carbon…

Orlen Unipetrol acquires recycling firm Remaq

The ORLEN Unipetrol Group (Prague, Czech Republic) announced it expansion into the segment of mechanical recycling by acquiring REMAQ, a leading player in the region of Central and Eastern Europe, in its group.  An Italian-Czech company, REMAQ, s.r.o. was established…

Sibur launches production of PET granules with recycled content

Sibur (Moscow, Russia) has launched production of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) granules using recycled feedstock. The new product, Vivilen rPET granules, contains up to 25–30% recycled polymers and will now be manufactured at POLIEF.  Once the facility reaches its design capacity, each…

Demonstration project successfully converts wood residues into sustainable fuels

Global Bioenergies (Evry, France) announced the end of the REWOFUEL project, which ran from 1 June 2018 to 30 June 2022. This project brought together several European industry leaders, including Repsol, Sekab and Fibenol, with the objective of demonstrating the…

Arkema joins Spanish consortium to advance recycling solutions for powder coatings

Arkema (Colombes, France), together with a consortium of companies, is exploring and advancing the recyclability of post-consumer PET (from bottles and other plastic items) to regain monomers for reuse as raw materials for more sustainable polyester powder resins for the…

Neste and Marathon finalize renewable diesel JV

Earlier this year, Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) and Marathon Petroleum Corp. (Findlay, Ohio) announced an agreement to establish a 50/50 joint venture to produce renewable diesel following a conversion project of Marathon's refinery in Martinez, California (the Martinez Renewable Fuels…