Latest News: Sustainability
Aemetis India to acquire refining site for biodiesel and SAF feedstock
Aemetis, Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.) announced that its Universal Biofuels subsidiary located in Kakinada, India has agreed to acquire a site to construct a tallow oil refining facility. The refining facility is designed to supply feedstock to the existing Aemetis 50…
JGC launches joint project to develop sustainably sourced isoprene from recycled tires
JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan) announced the launch of a joint research and development program with Bridgestone Corporation, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tohoku University, and ENEOS Corporation. This program is aimed at developing chemical recycling…
Mitsubishi Chemicals to build pilot plant for plant-based MMA monomers
Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo) and its subsidiary Mitsubishi Chemical Methacrylates (MCM) have developed a manufacturing technology for MMA (methyl methacrylate) monomers that uses plant-derived materials and have begun designing a pilot plant. The two companies (Group) define MMA monomers…
Honeywell and TotalEnergies enter supply agreement for recycled polymer feedstock
Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) and TotalEnergies (Paris) announced a strategic agreement to promote the development of advanced plastic recycling. Under this agreement, Honeywell will agree to supply TotalEnergies with recycled polymer feedstock (RPF) using Honeywell’s UpCycle Process Technology at the recently…
Versalis starts up bioethanol production at Crescentino plant
Versalis S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese), Eni's chemical company, announced that it has begun the production of bioethanol from lignocellulosic biomass at Crescentino (Vercelli), Italy. The plant, which was acquired in 2018, has been overhauled thanks to major investments and has…
Agilyx to partner with Virgin Group on plastic-waste-derived low-carbon fuels
Virgin Group and chemical conversion technology company Agilyx Corp. (Tigard, Ore.) have announced they are forming a strategic partnership in order to research and develop lower-carbon fuel facilities to help address plastic pollution and the global transition to net-zero. Virgin…
Solvay and Veolia announce ambitious decarbonization project
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) and Veolia (Paris) are launching the construction of an industrial energy transition project, "Dombasle Énergie”, which aims to replace coal with refuse-derived fuel (RDF) for the production of clean and competitive energy for the historical Dombasle-sur-Meurthe…
Haldor Topsoe and Carbon Sink to cooperate on large-scale eMethanol facilities in North America
Carbon Sink LLC (Carbon Sink; Annapolis, Md.) announced that it has entered a cooperation agreement with Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) to explore opportunities to develop large-scale eMethanol production facilities in North America based on the Carbon Sink platform and…
DNV launches new joint project to promote standardization in green-hydrogen production
Together with 18 industry partners, DNV AS (Oslo, Norway) is launching a new Joint Industry Project (JIP) to enhance the standardization for reliable, safe and cost-efficient hydrogen production systems that use renewable energy-powered electrolysis to produce green hydrogen. Electrolyzers are…
Technip Energies to deliver FEED package for Encina’s advanced plastics-recycling plant
Technip Energies (Paris) announced it has signed an agreement with Encina Development Group, LLC (Encina) to deliver the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) of the fluidized bed catalytic pyrolysis reaction section for Encina’s commercial Plastic Fluid Catalytic Cracking (PFCC) unit to…