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Stamicarbon and Shchekinoazot join forces to develop green fertilizer technologies

Maire Tecnimont Group’s innovation and license company Stamicarbon BV (Sittard, the Netherlands) and Russian chemical company Shchekinoazot will team up to jointly explore, develop and implement green technologies at Shchekinoazot’s existing and new enterprises in the Russian Federation, with the…

Saint-Gobain to expand capacity and create carbon-neutral plasterboard plant in Norway

Saint-Gobain (Courbevoie, France) has announced an investment of approximately €25 million in its plasterboard plant in Fredrikstad, Norway, to increase its production capacity by about 40% and transform it to make it the world's first carbon-neutral plasterboard plant. This investment…

Arkema to acquire polymer-recycling specialist Agiplast

Arkema SA (Colombes, France) plans to acquire Agiplast, a company specialized in the regeneration of high-performance polymers and its historical partner in recycling operations. The company, with annual sales of around €15 million, operates a plant in Italy and has…

Haldor Topsoe and Preem achieve 85% co-processing of renewable feedstock at Gothenburg refinery

Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) has revamped Preem AB’s (Stockholm, Sweden) renewable hydrotreater unit at their refinery in Gothenburg, Sweden. The hydrotreater is now able to co-process 85% renewable feedstock utilizing Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology. The unit has a capacity of…

Black & Veatch completes commissioning on world’s first zero-water-consumption commercial data center

Digital modernization has led to an explosion in data, driving companies to increasingly seek out reliable, secure data centers that are both resource-efficient and sustainable. Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.)  has completed commissioning oversight for the world’s first zero…

Cummins to build world-scale electrolyzer plant in Spain

Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.) has unveiled its plans for one of the world’s largest electrolyzer plants for the production of green hydrogen to be located in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. This investment in Spain comes on the heels of Iberdrola and…

Breakthrough testing for H2/natural-gas blend in industrial steelmaking

Snam S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announced that the world's first test of a 30% hydrogen/natural gas blend in the forging processes used in industrial steelmaking was held in Rho (province of Milan), at the Forgiatura A. Vienna plant. The trial involved the…

Mitsubishi Chemical constructing verification plant for chemical recycling of acrylic resins

Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo) and its consolidated subsidiary Mitsubishi Chemical Methacrylates Japan Co., Ltd (MCM) plan to construct facilities in Japan to implement verification testing with the goal of commercializing molecular recycling operations for PMMA (polymethyl methacrylate; acrylic resin).…

Chevron Lummus Global starts up renewable base-oils plant for Novvi LLC

Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) is pleased to announce the successful startup of a 100% renewable base oil unit in Novvi's Deer Park, Houston facility that employs CLG's patented state-of-the-art ISODEWAXING catalyst and technology. Chevron, one of the joint venture parents…

Neste takes steps toward commercializing renewable gasoline in Sweden

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) announced that it has entered the final phase of testing for renewable gasoline in Sweden and is now advancing the target to complete commercial tests of the fuel, and thereby enabling significant reductions of greenhouse gas…