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Toray commercializes nylon grade with 100% bio-based synthetic polymers

Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) announced that it has developed a nylon 510 (N510) fiber that incorporates 100% biobased synthetic polymer content as defined under section 3.1.5 of ISO 16620-1: 2015, the international standard for the biobased content of plastics.…

Microsoft invests $50 million in LanzaJet SAF production plant

LanzaJet, a sustainable fuels technology company and renewable fuels producer, announced it has secured financing for its Freedom Pines Fuels plant in Soperton, Georgia, through the Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund. The Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund has made a $50 million…

Asahi Kasei to produce acrylonitrile using biomass-derived raw material

Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) announced that, Tongsuh Petrochemical Corp., Ltd. (TSPC), a wholly owned subsidiary in South Korea, acquired ISCC PLUS certification for its acrylonitrile (AN) as a sustainable product, and production of AN using biomass-derived propylene is scheduled…

Johnson Matthey and EMR join forces to develop battery-recycling value chain in the U.K.

Johnson Matthey plc (London) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with European Metal Recycling (EMR), one of the world’s largest material recyclers and a leading recycler of end-of-life vehicles, to develop an efficient value chain in the U.K. for recycling…

Dow joins Cyclyx recycling consortium

Cyclyx International, LLC a consortium-based plastic feedstock management company with a mission to increase the recycling rate of plastic from 10% to 90%, has announced that Dow (Midland, Mich.) has joined the Cyclyx consortium. As a leading materials science company,…

Repsol announces launch of SHYNE, the Spanish Hydrogen Network

The SHYNE (Spanish Hydrogen Network) project, the largest renewable hydrogen consortium in Spain, made up of 33 entities from different sectors, was presented today at Campus Repsol, the headquarters of Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain). It brings together 22 companies and…

TotalEnergies joins Masdar and Siemens Energy in Abu Dhabi-based green-H2 initiative

TotalEnergies (Paris) has joined a Masdar-led initiative focused on green hydrogen to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Masdar, Siemens Energy and TotalEnergies signed a collaboration agreement on the sidelines of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW) 2022, to act as co-developers…

Toyo and SCG Chemicals exploring scaleup of advanced plastics-recycling process

Toyo Engineering Corp. (Tokyo) and SCG Chemicals Co. (Bangkok, Thailand) entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) are jointly collaborating to further develop the advanced recycling process owned by Circular Plas (CirPlas), in which SCG Chemicals holds a 60% stake,…

Genomatica and Covestro produce first volumes of bio-based HMDA

Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) and Genomatica (San Diego, Calif.) announced an industry milestone to advance sustainability resulting from their partnership. The two companies have teamed to be the first to successfully produce significant volumes of a plant-based version of the chemical raw…

Veolia Carbon Clean JV launches carbon-capture project with Tata Steel

Veolia Carbon Clean — a joint venture between Carbon Clean (London) and Veolia (Paris, France) — is celebrating its first project milestone and revealing a new corporate identity. The joint venture is committed to reducing industrial carbon dioxide emissions and…