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ExxonMobil launches Low Carbon Solutions business unit

ExxonMobil has created a new business to commercialize its extensive low-carbon technology portfolio. The new business, ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions, will initially focus on carbon capture and storage, one of the critical technologies required to achieve net zero emissions and…

Clariant and Harbin Hulan Sino-Dan Jianye Bio-Energy sign license agreement for sunliquid cellulosic-ethanol technology in China

Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland) has signed a license agreement with Harbin Hulan Sino-Dan Jianye Bio-Energy (www.zdjygroup.com) for Clariant'c sunliquid cellulosic-ethanol technology. Harbin Hulan Sino-Dan Jianye Bio-Energy, a subsidiary of the Sino-Dan Jianye Group was formed in the early 2010s and has…

Volkswagen Group Components commences battery-recycling pilot

Volkswagen Group Components opened the Group’s first plant for recycling electric car batteries in Salzgitter, Germany. As pilot operation commences, the Volkswagen Group takes another committed step towards sustainable end-to-end responsibility for the entire value chain of the electric vehicle…

Eastman Chemical to build world-scale molecular-recycling facility

Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.) CEO Mark Costa and Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced the company's plans to build one of the world's largest plastic-to-plastic molecular recycling facilities at its site in Kingsport, Tenn. Through methanolysis, this world-scale facility will…

UPM begins basic engineering work for 500,000-ton biorefinery

UPM Group (Helsinki Finland) is moving forward with its biofuels growth plans and starting the basic engineering phase of a next-generation biorefinery. The potential biorefinery would have an annual capacity of 500,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of high-quality renewable…

Valmet to provide major process equipment for Renewcell textile-recycling plant in Sweden

Renewcell and Valmet Oyj (Espoo, Finland) have signed a contract for Valmet to deliver the main equipment for Renewcell’s planned 60,000 metric-ton capacity textile recycling plant at Ortviken industrial site in Sundsvall, Sweden. This is a major milestone in the…

ArcelorMittal and Vow ASA announce plans to build a biogas plant in Luxembourg

Specialist provider of technology for decarbonizing industry Vow ASA (Oslo, Norway) confirms that it has signed a strategic memorandum of understanding with ArcelorMittal (Luxembourg) to work on a project to build a biogas production plant that will reduce CO2 emissions…

SK Global Chemical and Brightmark to build pyrolysis-based plastics-recycling plant in South Korea

SK Global Chemical (Seoul, South Korea) and Brightmark, the global waste solutions provider, have signed a memorandum of understanding to create a partnership that aims to take the lead in the circular economy of plastic by construction of a commercial-scale…

Diamond Green Diesel to proceed with construction of renewable diesel plant

Darling Ingredients Inc. (Irving, Tex.; www.darlingii.com) and Valero Energy Corp. (San Antonio, Tex.; www.valero.com) jointly announced today that their 50/50 joint venture, Diamond Green Diesel (DGD), has received approval from both companies' boards of directors to proceed with the construction…

CVR Energy subsidiary selects Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology for revamp to renewable diesel production

CVR Energy, Inc. subsidiary will base a revamp of its Oklahoma petroleum refinery Haldor Topsoe A/S's (Lyngby, Denmark) HydroFlex technology to produce approximately 100 million gallons of renewable diesel per year. Topsoe will deliver basic engineering, license, proprietary equipment and…