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ECB Group signs major biofuel purchase and sale agreement with Shell

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 expands extrusion capacity in Italy for recycled PET materials

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’s advanced recycling program receives certification, secures supply agreement

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 begins work on renewable hydrogen projects in Australia and Oman

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 and Proton Ventures sign MoU for cooperation on green ammonia projects

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 wins EPCM contract for Clariant’s advanced biofuels plant in Romania

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 to construct a demonstration plant for ABS production from recycled-plastic feedstock

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…

SABIC and Plastic Energy to begin construction on plastic recycling facility in the Netherlands

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…

Preem’s Gothenburg plant increases production of renewable diesel

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…

JGC to conduct feasibility study for Korea’s first plastic-waste gasification plant

JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan) recently received an order for a feasibility study toward realizing the first plastic-waste gasification recycling plant in South Korea, which is being planned by a major South Korean chemicals company. This project involves carrying out a…