TotalEnergies SE (Paris) has announced the building of a new mechanical recycling unit for plastic waste at its Grandpuits site southeast of Paris. This new investment follows those announced in June 2023 — the doubling of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)…
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) signed an agreement with Honda Motor Co., Ltd., to jointly develop a chemical recycling technology for glass-fiber reinforced nylon 6 parts recovered from end-of-life vehicles. The two have begun verifying this technology, which entails depolymerizing with…
Mitsubishi Power, a power solutions brand of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), has announced that Takasago Hydrogen Park, the world's first integrated hydrogen validation facility, has entered full-scale operation. The park is located at MHI's Takasago Machinery Works in Hyogo…
LanzaJet, a leading sustainable fuels technology company and sustainable fuels producer, and Technip Energies (Paris) announced an agreement to strengthen their exclusive collaboration to support the global deployment of the LanzaJet Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ) Process technology. LanzaJet will continue to integrate…
Greenfield Global Inc. (Toronto, Ont., Canada), a world-renowned manufacturer and distributor of specialty alcohols, solvents, and custom solutions, has successfully completed its 30 million gallon alcohol upgrade at its Johnstown distillery inOntario, increasing the company’s overall production of high-purity alcohol…
Dow (Midland, Mich.) announced the startup of a new MDI (diphenylmethane diisocyanate) distillation and prepolymers facility at its world-scale manufacturing site in Freeport, Texas. This investment optimizes Dow’s existing asset infrastructure and advances Dow’s leading positions in attractive applications in…
Metso (Espoo, Finland) has extended its manufacturing capacity of mobile track-mounted crushing and screening equipment in Alwar, India, by opening new manufacturing facilities. After the extension is complete, the total size of the Alwar factory is approximately 340,000 square meters,…
ExxonMobil Corp. (Spring, Tex.) announced the startup of two new chemical production units at its Baytown, Texas, manufacturing facility. The $2-billion expansion is part of ExxonMobil’s long-term growth plans to deliver higher-value products from its U.S. Gulf Coast refining and…
Advanced water electrolysis expert Verdagy (MossLanding, Calif.) announced its new facility opening in Newark, California, with more than 100,000 sq. ft. of advanced manufacturing space. Verdagy’s Silicon Valley factory will be the first to manufacture advanced water electrolyzers in large…
Borealis Group (Vienna, Austria) has announced that Project STOP and Banyuwangi Regent, Ipuk Fiestiandani, inaugurated one of Indonesia’s largest Material Recovery Facilities (MRF) in Songgon Municipality. Built in collaboration with the regional government of Banyuwangi, the facility is a significant…