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Wood Group partners with ReNew ELP for commercial-scale advanced-recycling plant

Wood Group plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) has entered into a partnership with ReNew ELP to develop the world’s first commercial-scale plastic recycling plant using an innovative advanced recycling process in the north east of England. The plant will use HydroPRS (Hydrothermal…

Johnson Matthey technology selected for climate-neutral methanol project in Chile

Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) announced an agreement to supply cutting-edge technologies, equipment and advisory services to the world’s first methanol plant to harness energy from the wind, the Haru Oni project in Patagonia, Chile. The Haru Oni project, which…

Haldor Topsoe and Nel to offer end-to-end green ammonia and eMethanol solutions

Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) and Nel ASA (Oslo, Norway) have entered a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the intent to offer customers complete renewable electricity to ammonia and methanol solutions. Solutions will be based on globally leading technologies from…

BASF, SABIC and Linde join forces to realize the world’s first electrically heated steam-cracker furnace

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany), SABIC (Riyadh, Saudia Arabia) and Linde (Munich, Germany) have signed a joint agreement to develop and demonstrate solutions for electrically heated steam-cracker furnaces. The partners have already jointly worked on concepts to use renewable electricity instead…

LG Chem partners with Korean startup Innerbottle on recyclable cosmetics packaging

LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) announced a partnership with an innovative Korean startup Innerbottle to create a “Plastic Eco-Platform” which will enable complete recycling of plastic cosmetic containers. Innerbottle offers sustainable eco-friendly packaging solutions, with more than 50 intellectual…

Eni launches new biomass treatment plant at Gela biorefinery

Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) has announced that its new BTU (Biomass Treatment Unit) plant has begun production and was tested a few days ago. It will enable the Eni biorefinery in Gela, Sicily to use up to 100% of the…

Johnson Matthey and Sibanye-Stillwater form partnership to decarbonize critical-metals supply chain

Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) and Sibanye-Stillwater, a leading international precious metals mining group, have formed a strategic partnership to identify and develop solutions to drive decarbonization and the more efficient use of critical metals, such as platinum group metals…

Air Liquide and ArcelorMittal join forces to accelerate the decarbonization of steel production

Air Liquide (Paris) and ArcelorMittal (Luxembourg) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the objective of implementing solutions to produce low-carbon steel in Dunkirk, in northern France. The two companies are joining forces to transform the steel production process…

Renault joins Veolia and Solvay to advance closed-loop recycling of EV batteries

Major automotive company Groupe Renault is joining Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) and Veolia (Paris, France) in their partnership to enable the circular economy of EV (electric-vehicle) battery metals in Europe through closed-loop recycling.   The existing Veolia and Solvay consortium,…

Haldor Topsoe and Aquamarine enter into a MoU for building a green ammonia facility based on SOEC electrolysis

AQM Capital LLC (Aquamarine; New York, N.Y.) is developing a large-scale green ammonia facility to be constructed in multiple stages. In the first stage of the project, the proposed facility will use Haldor Topsoe A/S’s (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) proprietary solid…