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PPG completes on-site solar installation at Caivano, Italy facility

PPG Industries (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.ppg.com) today announced the completion of an on-site solar installation at its Caivano, Italy facility that will enable progress toward the company’s 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. The project is part of a partnership with…

Aramco, TotalEnergies, SIRC to assess potential SAF project in Saudi Arabia

Aramco (Dharan, Saudi Arabia; www.aramco.com), one of the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals companies, TotalEnergies (Corbevoie, France; www.totalenergies.com), a global multi-energy company that produces and markets energies, and Saudi Investment Recycling Company (SIRC; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sirc.sa), a major…

Nel Hydrogen signs contract for electrolyzer equipment to Samsung C&T for ‘pink’ hydrogen project

Nel Hydrogen Electrolyser AS, a subsidiary of Nel ASA (Oslo, Norway; www.nelhydrogen.com), has signed a new contract for 10 MW of alkaline electrolyzer equipment for about EUR 5 million with Samsung C&T Corporation Engineering & Construction Group (‘Samsung C&T’) for…

Aramco, Linde and SLB sign agreement for world’s largest CCS hub in Saudi Arabia

Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) has signed a shareholders’ agreement with Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) and SLB (Houston) , paving the way for development of a Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) hub that is expected to become one of the largest…

Topsoe and Sasol selected to deliver e-fuels technology for demonstration plant in Germany

Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) and  Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa) have been selected to deliver technologies for German Aerospace Center’s (DLR) SAF production demonstration plant. Sasol and Topsoe will deliver their G2L (Gas to Liquid) e-fuels technology, integrating Topsoe’s innovative…

LG Chem and Acies Bio to partner on sustainable chemical feedstock development

LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) and Acies Bio (Ljubljana, Slovenia) announced a strategic collaboration to jointly develop sustainable solutions for commercial biomanufacturing. This initiative centers on Acies Bio's OneCarbonBio platform, an advanced synthetic biology platform designed to upcycle one-carbon…

Fluor awarded FEED contract for CCS project at Heidelberg Materials facility in Germany

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced that it has signed a Front-end Engineering and Design (FEED) contract with Heidelberg Materials AG (Heidelberg, Germany) for its GeZero project to integrate an industrial-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) solution into its cement production…

First-of-a-kind hydrogen project employs thermal-plasma electrolysis in cement production

Cemex Ventures, Cemex’s corporate venture capital (CVC) and open innovation unit, announced an initial clean-hydrogen deployment at industrial scale with HiiROC (Hull, U.K.) at its Rugby cement plant in the U.K. Hydrogen has emerged as a low-carbon energy source within…

CSIRO solid-oxide electrolyzer pilot demonstrates efficiency and durability at Bluescope Steel Plant

CSIRO (Melbourne), Australia’s national science agency, has successfully trialled its game-changing hydrogen production technology at BlueScope’s Port Kembla Steelworks in New South Wales, demonstrating affordable and renewable hydrogen can be generated at scale to help decarbonize heavy industry.   CSIRO’s tubular…

Elkem secures €1.8 million grant to explore CO2-free silicon production

Elkem ASA (Oslo, Norway) has secured €1.8 million in funding from the European Union for the groundbreaking Elkem Sicalo (Silicon production with carbon looping) project, which aims to eliminate all CO2 emissions from silicon production. Elkem, SINTEF and NORCE are…