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Neste to raise production capacity of sustainable aviation fuel at Rotterdam refinery

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) announced that it will modify its existing renewables production capacity in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, to enable production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). Currently, the refinery produces mainly Neste MY Renewable Diesel. The modifications to the refinery,…

Phillips 66 completes refinery hydrotreater conversion for renewable diesel production

As a part of its first-quarter 2021 financial results, Phillips 66 (Houston) provided an update on its conversion project at the San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, California, to meet the growing demand for renewable fuels. In April, the company completed…

SK Innovation and Kia Motors to establish recycling ecosystem for EV batteries

Kia Motors and SK Innovation (both Seoul, South Korea) announced that they had secured the possibility of building an industrial ecosystem that enables eco-friendly handling of EV batteries and technological basis thereof by re-collecting metals such as lithium from used…

Aker Solutions wins FEED contract for carbon-neutral fuels plant in Norway

Aker Solutions ASA (Lysaker, Norway) has signed a contract with Nordic Blue Crude (NBC) for front-end engineering and design (FEED) of a new e-Fuel facility at Herøya in Porsgrunn, Norway. The e-Fuel plant is planned to produce CO2-neutral fuel by…

Repsol joins Enerkem and Agbar to build a waste-to-chemicals plant in Tarragona

Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) announced that it will join the Ecoplanta project, together with Enerkem (Montréal, Québec, Canada) and Grupo Agbar (Barcelona, Spain), to build a waste-to-chemicals plant in Tarragona, Spain. Under the joint venture Ecoplanta Molecular Recycling Solutions, the…

Johnson Matthey and Stena collaborate on battery-recycling value chain

Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) has concluded a Memorandum of Understanding with Stena Recycling Group, a leading recycler of industrial waste and end of life products, to develop an efficient value chain in Europe for recycling of lithium ion batteries…

Ingevity partners with GreenGas on development of biogas-capture systems

Ingevity Corp. (North Charleston, S.C.) has announced a strategic partnership with and investment in GreenGasUSA Holdings, LLC (GreenGas), an integrated renewable natural gas (RNG) solutions provider helping customers reduce their environmental impact. Charleston, South Carolina-based GreenGas contracts with agricultural farms,…

McDermott wins FEED contract from Michelin for polystyrene-recycling project

McDermott International, Ltd. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract from Michelin Group (Clermont-Ferrand, France) for the first industrialization of an innovative plastic recycling process to produce regenerated styrene from polystyrene. The regenerated…

Kumho Mitsui Chemicals to raise MDI production capacity in South Korea

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) announced plans to bolster the methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) production capacity of affiliate Kumho Mitsui Chemicals Inc. (Seoul, South Korea). The production capacity of the site in Yeosu, Jeonnam, South Korea, will be increased by 200,000…

Phillips 66 secures renewable-fuels feedstock with investment in Iowa soybean-processing plant

Phillips 66 (Houston) is securing feedstock for the company's growing portfolio of renewable fuels projects by investing in a new soybean-processing plant in Iowa. The company also recently announced a memorandum of understanding with Southwest Airlines to advance the commercialization…