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Phillips 66 and Marathon operate renewable-diesel units using Haldor Topsoe technology

Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) has announced that its Hydroflex technology has been successfully used to produce renewable diesel at a Marathon Petroleum Corp. (MPC) facility in North Dakota, and a Phillips 66 refinery in California. Earlier this year, production…

CF Industries and Mitsui to jointly explore blue ammonia projects in the U.S.

Mitsui & Co., Inc. (Tokyo) and CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (Deerfield, Ill.), the world’s largest producer of ammonia, announced a memorandum of understanding that will guide the companies in a joint exploration of the development of blue ammonia projects in…

10-MW green-hydrogen plant planned in Switzerland

Alpiq, EW Höfe AG and SOCAR Energy Switzerland are planning to build an electrolysis plant with a capacity of up to 10 MW in Freienbach, Switzerland. The commissioning of the plant is scheduled to start at the end of 2022…

Gevo to sell renewable natural gas production to bp

Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) announced that its wholly-owned dairy-manure-based renewable natural gas (RNG) project company located in northwest Iowa, Gevo NW Iowa RNG, LLC, has signed binding, definitive agreements with BP Canada Energy Marketing Corp. and BP Products North America…

thyssenkrupp supports Emirati company Helios Industry in green hydrogen and green ammonia value chain development

Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Dortmund, Germany) has been awarded a contract to perform a technical study for a new green hydrogen and green ammonia project by the Emirati company Helios Industry. A water electrolysis plant, as well as a facility…

Green hydrogen and methanol project announced in Iceland

Icelandic utility company HS Orka and Hydrogen Ventures Ltd. (H2V; London) have announced plans to develop a production plant for green methanol using green hydrogen to power the marine sector, as well as domestic and commercial vehicles such as cars,…

Sumitomo Rubber pilots hydrogen-powered tire manufacturing

Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. is pleased to announce that, with the backing and support of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO, a national research and development agency), the company’s major tire factory in the City of Shirakawa…

Wood and Nexus partner to expand plastic-waste conversion plant

Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) has partnered with Nexus, LLC, a waste-to-virgin plastics company, to rapidly expand their commercial-scale production plant based in Atlanta, Georgia.  The plant converts plastic waste into products that are then converted into virgin recycled-content plastics.  The expansion of…

Reliance Industries to double PET recycling capacity

Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL; Mumbai, India) is doubling its PET recycling capacity by setting up a recycled polyester staple  fiber (PSF) manufacturing facility in Andhra Pradesh.  As a part of this endeavor, Srichakra Ecotex India Pvt. Ltd. will build and…

Westlake Chemical to acquire recycled-materials producer Dimex

Westlake Chemical Corp. (Houston) announced plans for one of its subsidiaries to acquire the parent company of Dimex LLC, from Grey Mountain Partners, a private equity firm. Based in Marietta, Ohio, Dimex produces a variety of consumer products made from…