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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries supports South Australia green-hydrogen project

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan) has agreed to make a capital investment in H2U Investments, the holding entity of the H2U Group. The H2U Group includes The Hydrogen Utility (H2U), the leading Australian developer of green hydrogen and…

Monolith Materials receives investment from Mitsubishi for hydrogen production

  Monolith Materials Inc. (Lincoln, Neb.; www.monolithmaterials.com) a leader in clean hydrogen and chemical production, today announced it has received an investment from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.com) to support its innovative commercial-scale, emissions-free hydrogen manufacturing technology.…

Royal DSM and Neste enter partnership for bio-based, high-performance polymers

Royal DSM (Herleen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com), a global science-based company in nutrition, health and sustainable living, today announced that it will start a strategic partnership with Neste (Espoo, Finland; www.neste.com), the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation…

Braskem and Haldor Topsoe achieve first demonstration-scale production of renewable MEG

Braskem (São Paulo, Brazil) and Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) have announced that they achieved their first-ever demo-scale production of bio-based monoethylene glycol (MEG). As a result of the collaboration between the two companies, the MOSAIK technology development has been progressing…

Sinopec kickstarts extensive research on CO2 emissions and carbon neutrality

Sinopec (Beijing, China) has established strategic cooperation with three top institutions in Beijing, China, to take lead in a joint research on the energy and chemical industry's carbon emissions peak and carbon neutrality. Sinopec invited thought leaders and experts in…

Perstorp to build novel sustainable-methanol plant

Perstorp AB (Malmö, Sweden) has developed a production concept to produce methanol from a large variety of recovered end-of-life streams and hydrogen from electrolysis. Project AIR will build a first-of-a-kind, large scale, commercial Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) unit to…

Audi and KIT launch chemical-recycling pilot project for automotive plastics

A large number of components in automobiles are made from plastics. They have to meet exacting safety, heat resistance and quality requirements. That is why, so far, only petroleum-based materials have been suitable for manufacturing plastic components in automobiles that…

Iberdrola ramps up hydrogen electrolysis projects through partnerships with Nel and Ingeteam

Iberdrola (Bilbao, Spain) and leading electrolyzers manufacturer Nel Hydrogen ASA - through Nel Hydrogen Electrolyser - have combined their capacities to turn Spain into a technological and industrial benchmark in green hydrogen. The companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)…

Petronas highlights low-emissions energy strategies, including solar, wind and H2

In a special address titled ‘Southeast Asia Energy Outlook in a Global Context’  at the opening of the virtual ASEAN Energy Business Forum (AEBF) 2020  yesterday, PETRONAS (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) President and Group Chief Executive Officer Tengku Muhammad Taufik said:…

McDermott wins pre-FEED contract for Tata Steel emissions-reduction project in the Netherlands

McDermott International, Ltd. (Houston) announced it has been awarded a Pre Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract from Tata Steel B.V. for the Enhancing Value by Emissions Reuse and Emission Storage (EVEREST) Project. Tata Steel has launched the preparatory plans for a…