LyondellBasell Industries (LYB; Rotterdam, the Netherlands) has secured a location for an integrated plastic-waste recycling hub south of an existing industrial park in Knapsack, Germany, signing a land lease agreement with YNCORIS GmbH & Co. KG. The hub is planned…
Carbios (St-Beauzire, France) held a groundbreaking ceremony for the world's first PET biorecycling plant in the presence of representatives of local authorities, partner brands and industrial partners who all make up Carbios’ ecosystem. Located in Longlaville, in the Grand-Est region…
Dow (Midland, Mich.), Henkel Adhesive Technologies (Dusseldorf, Germany), and Kraton Corp. (Houston), have achieved a reduction in product carbon footprint for two of Henkel’s North American flagship products for end-of-line packaging: TECHNOMELT SUPRA 100 and TECHNOMELT SUPRA 106M. TECHNOMELT SUPRA…
OMV Petrom S.A. (Bucharest, Romania), the largest integrated energy producer in Southeastern Europe, will test a new carbon capture and utilization technology at the Petrobrazi refinery, starting June. The tests are part of a demonstration campaign carried out in three…
Frontier Energy, GTI Energy and the Center for Electromechanics at The University of Texas at Austin hosted the grand opening of a hydrogen research and demonstration facility. It was developed as part of the “Demonstration and Framework for H2@Scale in…
Technip Energies (Paris) and Anellotech, Inc. announced that they have signed a global joint-development agreement to work cooperatively to further develop and then license Anellotech’s Plas-TCat process, a one-step thermal-catalytic recycling technology that converts mixed plastic wastes back into its…
Novoloop (Menlo Park, Calif.; www.novoloop.com) announced the successful startup of its pilot plant in India. In collaboration with Aether Industries, a publicly-listed specialty chemicals manufacturer, the pilot plant’s groundbreaking in Surat was announced in January 2024. Construction was completed in…
Technip Energies (Paris) has been awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by Viridor for the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project at one of the United Kingdom’s largest Energy-from-Waste facilities in Runcorn, United Kingdom. The project aims to capture…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced that one of its projects reached a major milestone recently with the production startup of the Braya Renewable Fuels facility in Come by Chance, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Fluor provided engineering and procurement (EP) services…
Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) announced plans to build a cutting-edge factory in Chesterfield, Virginia. The factory will manufacture advanced, energy efficient Solid Oxide Electrolyzer Cells (SOEC) that are essential to the efficient production of clean hydrogen and derivatives like eAmmonia…