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Röhm implements new PMMA chemical recycling process

At its Worms site in Germany, Röhm GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany) is using an innovative and in-house developed technology for the first time on an industrial scale. It enables the processing and upgrading of chemically recycled methyl methacrylate (MMA). The starting…

TotalEnergies and EDF secure low‑carbon electricity for Refining & Chemicals sites in France

Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TotalEnergies SE (Paris), and Bernard Fontana, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the EDF Group,  signed a Nuclear Production Allocation Contract (Contrat d’Allocation de Production Nucléaire – CAPN) for a duration of…

Alternium selects Kiewit for pre-FEED on new hydrogen production facility

Aternium (Wilmington, Del.)  announced it has selected Kiewit Engineering Group Inc.  (Lenexa, Kan.) to perform the pre-FEED for its initial heavy water/hydrogen production facility, the first of a multi-plant project. Aternium’s multi‑plant initiative encompasses approximately $1 billion in safe, high‑efficiency…

TotalEnergies and Holcim inaugurate floating solar-power plant in Belgium

 TotalEnergies SE (Paris) and Holcim (Zug, Switzerland) inaugurated in Belgium a floating solar power plant with a capacity of 31 MW, located in Obourg on a former chalk quarry site that has been rehabilitated into a lake. The solar power…

Thyssenkrupp nucera supplies electrolyzers to Moeve for green hydrogen project in Spain

Thyssenkrupp nucera AG & Co. KGaA (Dortmund, Germany) and Moeve (Madrid, Spain) have signed an engineering, procurement, fabrication and supply contract for thyssenkrupp nucera to provide its equipment for 300 megawatts (MW) of its alkaline water electrolysis technology. The agreement…

KBR awarded FEED contract for Port of Amsterdam liquid-hydrogen terminal

KBR, Inc. (Houston) has been selected to deliver the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) for the groundbreaking EcoLog Terminal in Amsterdam, the world’s first commercial‑scale facility designed to import liquid hydrogen (LH₂) and export liquid CO₂ (LCO₂). The terminal, now under…

Technip Energies acquires stake in Verso Energy SAF project in France

Technip Energies (Paris) has signed an agreement with Verso Energy to acquire a minority equity stake in the DEZiR project, a synthetic aviation fuel (eSAF) plant located in Rouen, France. This investment demonstrates Technip Energies’ support for this major industrial…

Plastic Energy and TotalEnergies announce startup of advanced recycling plant in France

Plastic Energy (London, U.K.; www.plasticenergy.com) and TotalEnergies (Courbevoie, France; www.totalenergies.com) announce the start-up of their joint advanced plastics recycling plant, TotalEnergies Plastic Energy Advanced Recycling (TEPEAR), at TotalEnergies’ zero-crude Grandpuits complex outside Paris. The facility, which has an annual processing…

Asahi Kasei and Nippon Steel recycle scrap from chlor-alkali electrolysis cell production

Asahi Kasei (Tokyo, Japan; www.asahi-kasei.com) a diversified global company, Nippon Steel (Tokyo, Japan; www.nipponsteel.com), and Nippon Steel Trading have launched a recycling initiative to convert pure titanium scrap generated during the manufacturing of electrolysis cells into a raw material for…

Neste commissions world’s largest upgrading facility for liquefied waste plastic

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has successfully commissioned its new upgrading facility for liquefied waste plastic (LWP) at its Porvoo refinery in Finland. This EUR 111 million investment marks a major milestone in the scale-up of chemical recycling, enabling the production…