Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland) has signed a license agreement with Harbin Hulan Sino-Dan Jianye Bio-Energy (www.zdjygroup.com) for Clariant'c sunliquid cellulosic-ethanol technology. Harbin Hulan Sino-Dan Jianye Bio-Energy, a subsidiary of the Sino-Dan Jianye Group was formed in the early 2010s and has…
Volkswagen Group Components opened the Group’s first plant for recycling electric car batteries in Salzgitter, Germany. As pilot operation commences, the Volkswagen Group takes another committed step towards sustainable end-to-end responsibility for the entire value chain of the electric vehicle…
Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.) CEO Mark Costa and Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced the company's plans to build one of the world's largest plastic-to-plastic molecular recycling facilities at its site in Kingsport, Tenn. Through methanolysis, this world-scale facility will…
UPM Group (Helsinki Finland) is moving forward with its biofuels growth plans and starting the basic engineering phase of a next-generation biorefinery. The potential biorefinery would have an annual capacity of 500,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of high-quality renewable…
Renewcell and Valmet Oyj (Espoo, Finland) have signed a contract for Valmet to deliver the main equipment for Renewcell’s planned 60,000 metric-ton capacity textile recycling plant at Ortviken industrial site in Sundsvall, Sweden. This is a major milestone in the…
Specialist provider of technology for decarbonizing industry Vow ASA (Oslo, Norway) confirms that it has signed a strategic memorandum of understanding with ArcelorMittal (Luxembourg) to work on a project to build a biogas production plant that will reduce CO2 emissions…
SK Global Chemical (Seoul, South Korea) and Brightmark, the global waste solutions provider, have signed a memorandum of understanding to create a partnership that aims to take the lead in the circular economy of plastic by construction of a commercial-scale…
Darling Ingredients Inc. (Irving, Tex.; www.darlingii.com) and Valero Energy Corp. (San Antonio, Tex.; www.valero.com) jointly announced today that their 50/50 joint venture, Diamond Green Diesel (DGD), has received approval from both companies' boards of directors to proceed with the construction…
CVR Energy, Inc. subsidiary will base a revamp of its Oklahoma petroleum refinery Haldor Topsoe A/S's (Lyngby, Denmark) HydroFlex technology to produce approximately 100 million gallons of renewable diesel per year. Topsoe will deliver basic engineering, license, proprietary equipment and…
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…