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Plans underway for industrial-scale seaweed-processing biorefinery in Finland

Origin by Ocean and AFRY have entered a collaborative engineering collaboration to plan an industrial-scale biorefinery for processing bio-based seaweed products in Finland. The conceptual study phases aim to define production concepts and the steps required to construct a biorefinery.…

Air Products to build Europe’s Largest blue hydrogen plant to supply ExxonMobil site in Rotterdam

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced it will build, own and operate a state-of-the-art carbon capture and carbon dioxide (CO2) treatment facility at its existing hydrogen production plant in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The facility is expected to be on-stream in…

North America’s largest green-hydrogen plant begins operations in California

H2B2 Electrolysis Technologies, Inc. (H2B2) has unveiled SoHyCal – the largest operational green hydrogen production plant powered entirely by renewable energy in North America to date. This pioneering project, from both a technical and commercial point of view, consists of…

Eni and Saipem sign agreement to develop new biorefineries

Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) and Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) have signed an agreement for the development of biorefining projects. It was signed  by Giuseppe Ricci, Chief Operating Officer for Energy Evolution at Eni, and Alessandro Puliti, Chief Executive…

Braskem and Oxiteno to collaborate on bio-based ethylene supply

Braskem S.A. and Indorama Ventures IOD - Oxiteno (both São Paulo, Brazil) have  announced a partnership to supply bio-attributed ethylene from renewable sources. Bio-attributed ethylene, certified by ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification), will be used by Oxiteno to create…

DuPont starts up new elastomer plant in Delaware

DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) announced the official opening of its new DuPont Kalrez manufacturing site in Newark, Delaware to meet growing global customer demand from the semiconductor and industrials sectors. The new facility, the Tralee Park Annex, was officially inaugurated with…

Solvay and Orbia progress plans for new PVDF facility in Georgia

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium)  confirms its plans to build a new battery-grade PVDF facility in Augusta, Georgia. With more than half of U.S. car sales projected to be electric by 2030, the U.S. produced PVDF - a thermoplastic fluoropolymer -…

Improving Productivity and Sustainability Through Digital Transformation

The chemical process industries (CPI) are exploring and investing in multiple technologies and operational improvements, striving to create smarter plants and more efficient processes so they can continuously improve productivity, sustainability and safety in their operations. These factors are pushing…

Henkel acquires Critica Infrastructure

Henkel AG (Düsseldorf, Germany) has acquired the U.S.-based firm Critica Infrastructure (“Critica”), a specialized supplier of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) composite solutions for the world’s most critical infrastructure such as oil and gas transmission as well as municipal water…

BASF invests in U.S. startup firm 3Helix Inc. to bolster personal-care products

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and 3Helix Inc., a U.S.-based technology startup, announce their innovation partnership on 3Helix’s proprietary Collagen Hybridizing Peptide (CHP) technology. The partnership involves an equity investment and licensing agreement, granting BASF exclusive rights to commercialize CHP solutions…