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Remondis acquires Veolia Recycling assets in Sweden

Recycling, water and services specialist Remondis International GmbH is acquiring Veolia Recycling Solutions Nordic AB (Veolia). With this acquisition, Remondis has strengthened its market position in Northern Europe and has significantly expanded its business activities on the Swedish market. The…

LyondellBasell and Covestro project converts water-based waste to energy

LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) and its joint venture partner, polymer manufacturer Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) today announced the completion of its Circular Steam Project at their site in Maasvlakte, the Netherlands. With the Circular Steam Project, the site incorporated an…

LanzaTech and SED collaborating on bagasse-to-ethanol project in India

Spray Engineering Devices Ltd. (SED), a multidisciplinary engineering company dedicated to sustainable development, is partnering with LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.) in a first-of-its-kind bagasse to ethanol project in India. The project will be able to use other feedstocks and will be…

Wood awarded FEED contract for integrated H2-distribution and CO2-capture project

Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) has been awarded the consenting and environmental assessment and front-end engineering design (FEED) contracts for Cadent’s HyNet North West, an innovative project that aims to unlock a lower carbon economy for the North West of England…

TotalEnergies, partners to build advanced recycling plant in Texas

Plastic Energy Ltd., Freepoint Eco-Systems LLC and TotalEnergies have announced a strategic partnership in the U.S. Under this agreement, Plastic Energy and Freepoint Eco-Systems plan to build an advanced recycling plant in Texas, which will transform end-of-life plastic waste into…

Axens and Sumitomo Chemical announce milestone in waste-based polyolefin production

Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) has successfully conducted the first waste-based polyolefin production at its laboratory in Japan earlier this year, by use of the ethylene produced by Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) ethanol-to-ethylene technology Atol. This process value chain is complemented…

Chevron Lummus Global launches new renewable diesel and SAF production technology

Chevron Lummus Global (CLG), a joint venture (JV) between Chevron U.S.A. Inc. and Lummus Technology, announced the expansion of its technology portfolio with the addition of its new ISOTERRA process for renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from biomass…

Twelve announces first production of CO2-derived jet fuel

Carbon transformation company Twelve announced it has produced the first fossil-free jet fuel called E-Jet from carbon dioxide (CO2) electrolysis, demonstrating a scalable, energy-efficient path to the de-fossilization of global aviation. This project was supported through funding from the U.S.…

ExxonMobil announces plan to expand carbon-capture capacity in Wyoming

ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.) initiated the process for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts as part of its plans to expand carbon capture and storage (CCS) at its LaBarge, Wyoming facility. The expansion project will capture up to 1 million…

Elkem to test the world’s first carbon-capture pilot for smelters

Elkem (Oslo, Norway) will test the world’s first carbon capture pilot for silicon smelters at its plant in Rana, Norway. The project has received financial support from Gassnova CLIMIT and is a follow-up to the company’s recently launched climate roadmap…