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…
Australia’s two largest iron-ore miners and its biggest steelmaker have selected the Kwinana Industrial Area, south of Perth, as the location to develop Australia’s largest ironmaking electric smelting furnace (ESF) pilot plant. The groundbreaking project combines the expertise of BlueScope…
Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) and Innventure (Orlando, Fla.; www.innventure.com), a technology commercialization platform, today announced plans to collaborate to develop and commercialize new waste-to-value technologies. The collaboration aims to enable globally scalable, cost-effective conversion of mixed wastes to…
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) will install a pilot facility for its all-carbon carbon dioxide (CO2) separation membrane at its Shiga Plant. An all-carbon CO2-separation membrane owes its high performance to a dual-layer structure, comprising a thin carbon-film separation layer on…
Green cement manufacturer Fortera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.) is partnering with multinational Sumitomo Corp. (Tokyo) to position the market for widespread adoption of Fortera’s carbon-reducing ReCarb technology. The two companies have agreed to a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to focus on…
Hysata Pty. Ltd. (Wollongong, Australia) has entered two Joint Development Agreements (JDA) with POSCO Holdings Inc. (Pohang-si, South Korea) and POSCO Eco & Challenge (POSCO E&C). These collaborations aim to advance the development and deployment of Hysata’s next-generation electrolyzer technology.…
Baker Hughes, Inc. (Houston) and the University of California, Berkeley have announced a new long-term research partnership to establish the Baker Hughes Institute for Decarbonization Materials at UC Berkeley’s College of Chemistry. The institute will connect breakthrough academic research with…
Phillips 66, Inc. (Houston) is teaming up with a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC to power Phillips 66’s Rodeo Renewable Energy Complex with a 30.2 megawatt (MW) solar facility. The solar facility will reduce the complex’s grid power demand…
Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) and LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) are extending their joint development agreement. The agreement extension enables LG Chem to assess existing assets for deploying Gevo’s Ethanol-to-Olefins (ETO) technology while accelerating commercialization activities, considering project scale…
Samsung E&A (Seoul, South Korea) secured the contract for a biorefinery that will have the capability to produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and other biofuels such as Renewable Diesel / Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (HVO) to cater to the growing demands…