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BASF to build new alcoholates plant in Ludwigshafen
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) is investing a mid-double-digit million-euro amount in a new alcoholates plant at its site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The plant will produce sodium methylate and potassium methylate, two important chemicals used for the production of biodiesel and…
UBE Corp. holds groundbreaking ceremony for new DMC/EMC plant in Louisiana
UBE Corp. (Tokyo)announced that it held a groundbreaking ceremony for a dimethyl carbonate (DMC) and ethyl methyl carbonate (EMC) plant in Louisiana. Approximately 180 people attended the ceremony, including many government officials, local communities, and constructors. From UBE, Masato Izumihara,…
Wood awarded FEED contract for green hydrogen facility in Rotterdam
Wood plc (Aberdeen, U.K.) has been awarded the front-end engineering design (FEED) scope for the Zeevonk hydrogen facility, in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The hydrogen plant will be powered by offshore wind and floating offshore solar from the Zeevonk offshore developments. The…
Four Covestro sites in the U.S. now running entirely on renewable electricity
Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) announced that four of its U.S. sites have reached net-zero Scope 2 electricity emissions through the allocation of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). This achievement is a result of Covestro's existing virtual Power Purchase Agreement (vPPA) with…
Blue Whale Materials partners with Call2Recycle to advance lithium-ion battery recycling in North America
Blue Whale Materials (BWM; Bartlesville, Okla.), a leader in lithium-ion battery recycling, announced a strategic partnership today with Call2Recycle, the leading battery stewardship organization in North America. As a result of the partnership, Blue Whale Materials’ state-of-the-art sorting and recycling…
Stanford report demonstrates environmental benefits of battery recycling
Recycling lithium-ion batteries to recover their critical metals has significantly lower environmental impacts than mining virgin metals, according to a new Stanford University lifecycle analysis published in Nature Communications. On a large scale, recycling could also help relieve the long-term…
Global Impact Coalition launches circularity project targeting automotive plastics
The Global Impact Coalition (GIC), a CEO-led collaborative platform originally incubated at the World Economic Forum, has launched the world’s first Automotive Plastics Circularity pilot together with seven global leaders in the chemical and recycling industries—BASF, Covestro, LyondellBasell, Mitsubishi Chemical…
BASF to sell Brazilian paints business to Sherwin-Williams
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Sherwin-Williams have signed an agreement on the sale of the Brazilian decorative paints business, which is part of BASF’s Coatings division. The purchase price on a cash and debt-free basis is $1.15 billion. The transaction…
Wood awarded operating contract for pilot carbon-capture plant in Wyoming
Wood plc (Aberdeen, U.K.) has been selected to provide operations and maintenance solutions for MTR Carbon Capture at the world’s largest membrane-based carbon capture plant in Gillette, Wyoming. The facility, which is based at the Wyoming Integrated Test Center (ITC)…
ADNOC and Veolia launch partnership for industrial water management
ADNOC (Abu Dhabi) and Veolia (Paris) announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding at a meeting of the UAE-France High Level Business Council to explore collaboration opportunities in the field of water management. This strategic partnership will leverage the…