Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) and Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) are cooperating in the energy-intensive production of basic chemicals at their Lower Rhine sites in Germany and make them more climate friendly. LANXESS sources chlorine, caustic soda and hydrogen from the…
Metso Outotec Oy (Helsinki, Finland) and thyssenkrupp Uhde have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Ma’aden in Saudi Arabia for developing a novel circular concept to improve the sustainability of Ma’aden’s phosphate operations. The aim is to design a…
The Swedish electrofuel developer Liquid Wind (Gothenburg, Sweden) has selected AFRY AB (Stockholm, Sweden) to provide basic engineering for the balance of plant for its second electrofuel facility in Sweden – FlagshipTWO in Sundsvall. Liquid Wind’s ambition, together with Sundsvall…
Bp plc (London) will evaluate the feasibility of building a new hydrogen hub in Germany. The project, which would be located in Wilhelmshaven, is expected to include an industry leading ammonia cracker which could provide up to 130,000 tons of…
PureCycle Technologies, Inc. (Orlando, Fla.) and the Port of Antwerp-Bruges today announced that PureCycle intends to build its first polypropylene (PP) recycling facility in Europe in the port's fast-growing NextGen District located in Belgium. The new plant is expected to…
Sika AG (Baar, Switzerland) and INEOS Enterprises, a subsidiary of Ineos Ltd. (London), have signed an agreement for the acquisition of MBCC Group’s admixtures business in the US, Canada, Europe, and the UK and its entire operations in Australia and…
TotalEnergies SA (Paris, France) has launched its eighteenth biogas production unit in France, which will be the largest in the country with a maximum capacity of 160 gigawatt hours (GWh). Named BioBéarn and located in Mourenx in the south-west of…
Brazilian chemical maker Unigel RI (Unigel) – one of Latin America's largest chemical companies and Brazil's top manufacturer of nitrogen fertilizers – has contracted with MECS, Inc. (MECS), a subsidiary of Elessent Clean Technologies, for the construction of a new…
Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.) recently held a ceremony its new 407,000 square foot fuel cell manufacturing facility in Slingerlands, N.Y., for a ribbon cutting alongside U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and New York State Governor Kathy Hochul.…
JERA Co., Inc. (Tokyo) has announced a pair of separate partnerships related to clean ammonia production. Firstly, JERA has executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for potential collaboration for the joint project development and sales & purchase of clean ammonia…