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Swedish consortium to construct demonstration plant for cellulosic textile fibers

TreeToTextile, owned by H&M Group, Inter IKEA Group, Stora Enso, and LSCS Invest,  announced that it is investing €35 million in constructing a demonstration plant in Sweden for upscaling new sustainable textile fiber. It is a critical next step towards…

New LED lighting system will help cut CO2 emissions at OMV Petrom refinery

OMV Petrom SA (Bucharest, Romania) has invested €1.5 million at the Petrobrazi refinery to streamline the lighting system of ten industrial ramps, where crude oil and feedstock is unloaded and oil products are loaded. The old lighting system at the…

Europe’s largest Power-to-X project announced in Denmark

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), a Danish fund management company focused on renewable energy infrastructure, has unveiled plans for the establishment of Europe’s largest production facility of CO2-free green ammonia. The project will be located in the town of Esbjerg on…

Borealis to invest in new RTO to reduce CO2 emissions at Porvoo polyolefins plant

Borealis Group AG (Vienna, Austria) announced that it is investing EUR 17.6 million in a new Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (RTO) for its polyolefins plants in Porvoo, Finland. This equipment will significantly lower the site’s CO2 emissions, reduce flaring and save…

Orlen invests in agricultural biogas production plants

ORLEN Południe, a company of the ORLEN Group (Płock, Poland) , has purchased two plots of land in Głąbowo, in the municipality of Ryn, taking over an agricultural biogas plant project started on the property. The company will continue construction…

Major milestones reached in the first commercial CO2-to-Methanol plant

Carbon Recycling International (CRI; Kópavogur, Iceland) has delivered the complete process design package for the first-of-its-kind 110,000 ton/yr CO2-to-methanol plant, that recycles industrial waste gases. Ground preparations and foundation work is already underway at the site of project partner Henan…

Acciona and Plug Power launch joint green-hydrogen platform for the Iberian Peninsula

Acciona (Madrid, Spain)  and Plug Power Inc., (Latham, N.Y.) a global leader in hydrogen fuel cell systems and fueling solutions, announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to launch a 50-50 joint-venture (JV) headquartered in Madrid. The JV…

Summit Carbon Solutions to launch major CCS network to reduce carbon footprint of U.S. biorefineries

Summit Agricultural Group (Alden, Iowa) announced the creation of Summit Carbon Solutions, a new business platform that will address the global challenge of decarbonization by developing the world’s largest carbon capture and storage (CCS) project. In doing so, Summit Carbon…

Yara partners with Statkraft and Aker Horizons to establish Europe’s first large-scale green ammonia project in Norway

Yara International ASA (Oslo, Norway) has signed a Letter of Intent with Statkraft and Aker Horizons, aiming to establish Europe’s first large-scale green ammonia project in Norway, enable the hydrogen economy and accelerate the green energy transition. The partners will…

DuPont and Vulcan Energy announce collaboration to demonstrate carbon-neutral lithium extraction

DuPont Water Solutions (Wilmington, Del.) announced a collaboration with Vulcan Energy Resources (Perth, Australia), a lithium and renewable energy project developer, to test and scale up Direct Lithium Extraction solutions for Vulcan’s world-first Zero Carbon Lithium extraction process. As the…