Mainstream Pine Products LLC announced plans for an estimated $90-million crude tall oil (CTO) biorefinery at the Charleston International Manufacturing Center (CIMC) in Berkeley County, S.C. The biorefinery will be a highly advanced recycling facility with capacity to process 110,000…
ECB Group Paraguay and Shell Trading (US) Co. have signed a multi-year contract that will provide more than 500 million liters/yr of renewable diesel and renewable jet fuel to Shell, one of the world's largest energy companies. The contract is…
ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria) is investing more than five million euros in an extrusion system for food-grade recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) made of used PET bottles (so-called post-consumer material) at its site in Anagni, Italy. Anagni is home to one…
Chevron Phillips Chemical, LP (CPChem; The Woodlands, Tex.) announced two significant developments in its advanced-recycling program, which converts waste plastics into circular polyethylene. Since introducing Marlex Anew Circular Polyethylene in October, the company has received certification through the International Sustainability…
Sumitomo Corp. (Tokyo) and JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan) which operates the overseas engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) business of the JGC Group, have signed a Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) contract for the hydrogen-related project planned by Sumitomo Corp. in…
Trammo DMCC, a subsidiary of Trammo, Inc., a leading global commodities merchandising and trading company, and Proton Ventures BV, an engineering company in the Netherlands specialized in ammonia technology, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for joint cooperation on green…
Bilfinger SE (Mannheim, Germany) has been commissioned by Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland) to deliver EPCM (engineering, procurement, overall project and construction management) services for the construction of their commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol production plant using Clariant’s sunliquid technology in southwest Romania.…
INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany) announced plans to build a demonstration plant at its Antwerp, Belgium, site to test production of Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) plastic from recycled feedstock. The plans for the new plant are part of the project “ABSolutely…
In a development toward a circular economy for plastics, SABIC (Jubail, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) and Plastic Energy Ltd. (London, U.K.; www.plasticenergy.com) are set to commence construction on the first commercial unit to produce its flagship certified circular polymers, part of…
Following a redevelopment of Preem AB’s (Stockholm, Sweden) Green Hydro Treater (GHT) plant in Gothenburg, the plant's production capacity of renewable diesel is increased by 40%. And for the first time, the GHT plant is able to produce 100% renewable…