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ECI Group secures license for copolymer plant utilizing optimized hybrid-reactor technology

ECI Group (Baton Rouge, La.) has signed a licensing agreement with Shaanxi Yanchang China Coal Yulin Energy & Chemical Co., Ltd. (YECC) to deliver a 150,000-metric ton/yr copolymer plant project using ECI Group’s proprietary hybrid reactor technology. YECC is part…

Cabot Corp. selected for DOE award negotiation to support production of battery-grade CNTs

Cabot Corp. (Boston, Mass.) announced it has been selected for an award negotiation of up to $50 million by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains. This grant, part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law,…

Woodland Biofuels investing $1.35 billion for RNG and green-hydrogen project in Louisiana

Woodland Biofuels Inc. (Toronto, Ont., Canada) announced a planned $1.35-billion investment at the Port of South Louisiana to establish what is said to be the world's largest carbon-negative renewable natural-gas plant and  ultra-green hydrogen facility.  Phase 1 of this project…

Kemira and IFF complete renewable polymers plant in Finland

As part of their strategic cooperation in providing new renewable alternatives to fossil-based products, Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) and International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF; New York) announced successful completion of a market-entry-scale industrial polymer plant. The unit is capable of…

AE Elemental opens recycling facility for EV batteries in Poland

AE Elemental, a joint venture of U.S.-based Ascend Elements (Westborough, Mass.) and Poland-based Elemental Strategic Metals, announced the grand opening of its first commercial-scale EV battery recycling facility. Located in Zawiercie, Poland, the newly constructed facility can process 12,000 metric…

Mitsui Chemical developing chemical-recycling scheme for ophthalmic lens materials

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) announced the development of a new technology that chemically recycles shavings and waste lenses generated from the production and processing of the company's MR-brand ophthalmic lens materials so that they may be repurposed into MR ophthalmic…

Kemira completes capacity expansion for alkenyl succinic anhydride sizing agents at Nanjing site

Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) has completed a multimillion euro investment to expand the production capacity of ASA (alkenyl succinic anhydride) sizing agents at its Nanjing site in Jiangsu province in China. The scope of the investment includes a full third…

LYB secures renewable-power capacity to reach its 2030 goal

LyondellBasell (LYB; Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced that it signed a power purchase agreement with Eneco N.V. This agreement brings LYB’s total secured renewable electricity capacity to 100% of its renewable electricity procurement target. “Taking climate action is a key part…

North America’s first commercial-scale rare-earth metals production facility starts operation in Canada

The Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) announced that its Rare Earth Processing Facility located in Saskatoon, Canada is ahead of schedule and produced rare earth metals at a commercial scale in summer 2024 – making Saskatchewan the first and only jurisdiction…

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