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Schneider Electric acquires AI-powered climate-tech platform Zeigo

Schneider Electric  announced that it has acquired start-up climate-tech platform Zeigo to enhance the company’s digital capabilities in energy, sustainability, and environmental commodity consulting. The acquisition will complement Schneider Electric’s portfolio of clean energy services and solutions and advance the…

Woodside and KBR to launch FEED work for green hydrogen project in Oklahoma

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded an engineering services contract by Woodside Energy (USA) Inc. for its proposed H2OK liquid hydrogen production facility project in Ardmore, Oklahoma.  Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide a…

LG Chem to construct South Korea’s first supercritical pyrolysis plant for plastics recycling

LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) says that it will construct South Korea’s first and its own hydrothermal plastics recycle facility using supercritical water. Supercritical water refers to a chemical recycling technology that converts mixed plastic streams into fossil-replacement oils…

Fortescue and Covestro enter a longterm green-hydrogen supply agreement

Australian renewable-energy firm Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) and Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) intend to enter into a long-term agreement for the supply of green hydrogen and its derivatives, including green ammonia. According to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), FFI and…

Eastman announces plans to build world’s largest molecular plastics recycling facility in France

French President Emmanuel Macron and Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.) Board Chair and CEO Mark Costa will jointly announce Eastman's plan to invest up to $1 billion in a material-to-material molecular recycling facility in France. This facility would use Eastman's…

BP signs strategic framework agreement in Oman for green hydrogen production

bp plc (London) and the Ministry of Energy and Minerals in Oman signed a Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) and a Renewables Data Collection Agreement which will support the potential development of a multiple gigawatt, world-class renewable energy and green hydrogen…

Haldor Topsoe’s technologies selected for Indaba Renewable Fuels’ biorefineries in California and Missouri

Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) has announced that   Indaba Renewable Fuels (Indaba; Newport Beach, Calif.) will build two greenfield refineries in California and Missouri to produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) utilizing Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology. The facilities are expected to begin production of SAF in 2024…

Borealis partners with Reclay Group on recycling packaging waste

Borealis Group AG (Vienna, Austria) and the Reclay Group, international experts in environmental and material recovery management, have joined forces to satisfy increasing market demand for the supply of recyclate material for use in high-end plastic applications. This unique partnership…

McDermott and CSIRO to jointly evaluate carbon-capture opportunities

McDermott International, Inc. (Houston) and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO; Melbourne), Australia's premier national science organization, are evaluating technical and commercial opportunities for the deployment of CSIRO's carbon capture technologies for energy and heavy industry applications. McDermott's…

Sulzer to provide process technology for NatureWorks’ bioplastics plant

Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland)  is delivering customized state-of-the-art production technology to NatureWorks’ latest biopolymer manufacturing facility which will be located in Nakhon Sawan Biocomplex, Thailand. Developed to support the increasing global demand for polylactic acid (PLA) bioplastics, the fully…