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Fortum to build hydrogen pilot plant in Finland

Fortum Oy (Espoo, Finland) will build a hydrogen production pilot plant in Loviisa, Finland. The plant will be located in the Källa area near Fortum’s Loviisa nuclear power plant on a plot owned by the company. The construction of the…

Asahi Kasei, Mitsui Chemicals and Mitsubishi Chemical enter joint feasibility study for decarbonization of ethylene production

Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo), Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo), and Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corp. (MCG Group; Tokyo) plan to perform a joint feasibility study on feedstock and fuel conversion at the three companies’ ethylene production facilities in western Japan in order…

Climeworks opens world’s largest direct-air capture plant in Iceland

Climeworks (Zurich, Switzerland) has announced that the world's largest direct air capture and storage plant, named Mammoth, started operations in Iceland. It is the second commercial facility of Climeworks in Iceland and is about ten times bigger than its predecessor,…

Equinor to acquire 45% stake in two Standard Lithium projects

Equinor Energy AS (Stavanger, Norway) has entered into an agreement with Standard Lithium Ltd. (Vancouver, B.C., Canada) to acquire a 45% share in two lithium project companies in Southwest Arkansas and East Texas. Standard Lithium recently commissioned a direct lithium…

U.S. DOE awards $5 million to Avium to further develop alkaline electrolyzer stacks

Avium, LLC (www.aviumenergy.com), an alkaline electrolysis company supported by Tallgrass, received a three-year, $5 million award from the Department of Energy (DOE). The DOE funding will accelerate the commercialization of robust and reliable alkaline electrolyzers by combining Avium’s proven low-cost,…

MHI to collaborate with Chiyoda for licensing of CO2-capture technologies

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo) has concluded a General License Agreement (GLA) with Chiyoda Corp. (Yokohama, Japan). Under this strategic collaboration agreement, MHI will grant license of "KM CDR Process" and "Advanced KM CDR Process" to Chiyoda, which is…

INOX Air Products to supply green-hydrogen to Asahi India Glass

Asahi India Glass Ltd. (AIS), India’s leading glass manufacturer, and INOX Air Products (INOXAP), India’s largest manufacturer of industrial and medical gases, have entered into a 20-year offtake agreement for supply of Green Hydrogen, to AIS’s greenfield float-glass facility in…

Carbon Clean achieves fabrication milestone with major eMethanol project’s first carbon-capture unit module

Carbon Clean (London) has achieved a fabrication milestone on Ørsted’s FlagshipONE project, Europe’s largest commercial-scale eMethanol facility under construction. The first equipment has been mounted on the structural steel of the first module, marking the start of the module assembly…

Carbios and Hündgen enter supply agreement for world’s first PET biorecycling plant

Carbios (St-Beauzire, France) and Hündgen Entsorgungs GmbH & Co. KG (Hündgen), a waste management expert in logistics, sorting services and the recycling of recyclable materials from waste mixtures, announce the signing of a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding relating to the…

Fortescue launches work on its first U.S. green-hydrogen plant

Fortescue (East Perth, Australia) marked a new phase in the development of the company’s $550 million venture into green hydrogen production in the United States, the first of Fortescue’s planned green energy investments in North America with a soil turn…