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Toray to build gigawatt-class mass-production system for water electrolyzer materials

Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) announced that the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has selected the company’s project to build a gigawatt-class mass production system for electrolyte membranes used in water electrolyzer for the Green Transformation Supply Chain Development Support…

Mitsubishi Power Americas and Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Association formalize partnership to advance hydrogen hub projects

Mitsubishi Power Americas, through its subsidiary MHI Hydrogen Infrastructure (MHI H2I), announces the recent signing of a subrecipient agreement between the Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Association (PNWH2) and MHI H2I’s Boardman Hydrogen Hub project. The PNWH2 Hub, one of the country’s…

New sustainable aluminum-powder facility using recycled materials to be built in India

Altana AG (Wesel, Germany) has announced that its group company, Eckart, has entered into a joint venture (JV) agreement with India-based sustainable manufacturing firm Runaya. The joint venture is establishing a new facility in Orissa (India), to produce amongst the…

University of California Riverside awarded $1.4-million grant to spur water recycling technology

The University of California (UC) system has awarded a $1.4 million grant to UC Riverside chemical and environmental engineering professor Haizhou Liu and a collaborative team from several UC campuses to combat water scarcity by developing strategies to clean and…

Merck KGaA investing €70 million in new Advanced Materials Development Center in Japan

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany announced that it will invest over €70 million to construct a new Advanced Materials Development Center (AMDC) at its Shizuoka site in Japan. This latest investment brings the company's total investment in the Shizuoka site to…

BP makes final investment decision for green hydrogen project at Lingen refinery

Bp plc (London) has made the final investment decision (FID) for the “Lingen Green Hydrogen” project. The company wants to achieve a significant milestone on the path to the development of green hydrogen on an industrial scale in Germany. Supported…

Vitol acquires majority stake in plastics recycling firm WPU

Vitol B.V. (Geneva, Switzerland) has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire a controlling interest in Waste Plastic Upcycling A/S (WPU). On completion, which is subject to certain conditions precedent, Vitol will own 90.36% of the share capital of WPU.…

Standard Lithium and Equinor begin operation of pilot direct lithium extraction unit in Arkansas

SWA Lithium, the Joint Venture (JV) between Equinor Energy AS (Stavanger, Norway) and Equinor ASA (Stavanger, Norway), which is developing the South West Arkansas Project (SWA), is pleased to announce that, in partnership with Koch Technology Solutions (KTS), it has…

BASF, Endress+Hauser and research partners collaborate to optimize mechanical recycling of plastics

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has teamed up with Endress+Hauser Ltd. (Reinach, Switzerland) and TechnoCompound (Bad Sobernheim, Germany), as well as the Universities of Bayreuth and Jena to study how the mechanical recycling of plastics can be improved. With funding from…

Worley awarded EPC contract for ExxonMobil’s Baytown low-carbon H2 facility

Worley Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia) will provide reimbursable Engineering, Procurement and Construction services (EPC) to ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.) for the Enabling Works, Infrastructure and Interconnects scope of ExxonMobil’s planned low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia facility. The facility is adjacent to…