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Yara and Lantmännen sign agreement to commercialize fossil-free fertilizers

Yara International ASA (Oslo, Norway) and Lantmännen signed a commercial agreement to bring fossil-free fertilizers to market. Produced with renewable energy, these green fertilizers are crucial for decarbonizing the food chain and offering consumers more sustainable food choices. Yara, a…

CropEnergies and Johnson Matthey enter agreement for renewable ethyl acetate production

CropEnergies AG (Mannheim, Germany) and Johnson Matthey plc (London) have entered into an engineering, license and technical services agreement for a plant to allow CropEnergies AG to produce renewable ethyl acetate from sustainable ethanol near its production site in Zeitz,…

Solvay and Trillium to develop bio-based acrylonitrile supply chain

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) and Trillium Renewable Chemicals have signed a letter of intent to develop the supply chain for bio-based acrylonitrile (bio-ACN). Trillium will supply Solvay with bio-ACN from Trillium’s planned commercial asset, and Solvay will evaluate bio-ACN for…

Neste’s Porvoo refinery completes successful processing trials for liquefied plastic waste

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has successfully concluded its first series of trial runs processing liquefied waste plastic at its Porvoo refinery in Finland. After kicking the series off with its first-ever industrial scale trial run with liquefied waste plastic in…

Plastic Energy and TotalEnergies build advanced-recycling plant in Spain

Plastic Energy and TotalEnergies have announced a new agreement to promote the development of advanced plastic recycling. Under this agreement, Plastic Energy plans to build a second advanced recycling plant in Sevilla, Spain, in addition to their existing operational plant,…

Technip Energies named as EPC partner for Wastefront tire-recycling plant

Wastefront AS (Oslo, Norway) announced Technip Energies (Paris, France) as its engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) partner for the build of its £100 million tire-recycling plant in Sunderland. Technip Energies was selected following a competitive Project Analysis and Execution Pathway…

Veolia to build large EV-battery recycling plant in the U.K.

Veolia has announced plans for its first electric-vehicle (EV) battery recycling facility in the U.K., which will have the capacity to process 20% of the U.K.’s end of life electric vehicle batteries by 2024. Many of the materials required for…

ExxonMobil acquires stake in biofuels company Biojet AS

ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.) is expanding its interests in biofuels that can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector, acquiring a 49.9% stake in Biojet AS, a Norwegian biofuels company that plans to convert forestry and wood-based construction…

SK Geo Centric and PureCycle to build recycled PP plant in Ulsan

SK Geo Centric (SKGC), a subsidiary of SK Innovation (Seoul, South Korea) and  PureCycle Technologies, Inc. (Orlando, Fla.), an advanced recycling company revolutionizing plastic waste, signed a non-binding head of agreement (HOA) to open Asia’s first recycled polypropylene (PP) plant…

thyssenkrupp to install 200-MW ‘green’ hydrogen facility for Shell in port of Rotterdam

Thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers GmbH, Dortmund, Germany has signed a supply contract with Shell for the large-scale project ‘Hydrogen Holland I’ in the port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Under the contract, thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers will engineer, procure and fabricate…