Altris AB (Uppsala, Sweden), a developer and prototype manufacturer of sodium-ion batteries, and Stora Enso Oyj (Helsinki, Finland), a provider of renewable products in packaging, biomaterials and wooden construction, are proud to announce a partnership. Together, the two companies will…
Advanced plastics-recycling specialist Agilyx ASA announced that its depolymerization technology was successfully demonstrated during commissioning of Toyo Styrene’s 10 ton-per-day chemical recycling facility in Japan. The recycling plant will convert post-use polystyrene into a styrene monomer enabled by Agilyx depolymerization…
In the quest to transform sugar and carbon dioxide into fumaric acid, an important intermediate for chemical production, in this case, using the bacterium Basfia succiniciproducens, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) is collaborating with Saarland University, University of Marburg and the…
Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) will build a new industrial-gas production facility in the United States to supply the new fab of one of the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturers. In the framework of a long-term contract, the plant will provide large…
Technip Energies (Paris), in consortium with Turner Industries, has been awarded the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contract by ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions Onshore Storage LLC. Technip Energies will oversee the engineering and procurement while Turner Industries will be responsible…
Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria) has announced the installation of a semi-commercial demonstration recyclate-based polyolefins (rPO) compounding line in Beringen, Belgium. Set for construction during 2024, it is expected to be fully operational in the first half of 2025. The state-of-the-art…
BioBTX, a pioneering developer of renewable aromatics technology in the Netherlands, has secured over €80 million to launch its first commercial-scale plant. This investment will fund the world’s first renewable chemicals plant utilizing BioBTX’s innovative ICCP Technology to produce sustainable…
Rio Tinto will invest $143 million (A$215 million) to develop a research and development facility in Western Australia to further assess the effectiveness of its low-carbon ironmaking process, BioIron, to support decarbonizing the global steel value chain. The development of…
Occidental Petroleum Corp. (Houston) and BHE Renewables, a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Energy, announced they formed a joint venture for the demonstration and deployment of TerraLithium’s Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) and associated technologies to extract and commercially produce…
Trillium Renewable Chemicals (Knoxville, Tenn.) announced the selection of INEOS Nitriles’ Green Lake facility in Port Lavaca, Texas to establish the world’s first demonstration plant for converting plant-based glycerol into acrylonitrile. The demonstration plant is named “Project Falcon.” Trillium Renewable…