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LanzaTech announces waste-to-chemicals pilot project in Canada

LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.) has partnered on a next-generation bioreactor demonstration facility at the City of Edmonton’s Waste Management Centre that is expected to improve the economic viability of an integrated biorefinery. The first-of-a-kind demonstration facility is expected to show a…

Fluor awarded contract for Imperial’s renewable-diesel complex in Alberta

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) was awarded a reimbursable front-end engineering and detailed design, engineering and procurement services contract for Imperial as the company progresses plans to develop a world-class renewable diesel complex at its Strathcona refinery near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.…

Stora Enso progresses commercialization of lignin-based anode materials

The commercialization of lignin-based advanced materials is progressing — Stora Enso Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) signed a Letter of Intent with Beyonder, a Norwegian energy storage technology company. The Letter of Intent covers optimization of properties and commercial deliveries of lignin-based…

Albemarle completes acquisition of Guangxi Tianyuan New Energy Materials

Albemarle Corporation (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that its subsidiary, Albemarle Lithium UK Limited, has completed the acquisition of Guangxi Tianyuan New Energy Materials Co., Ltd. (Tianyuan) for approximately $200 million. A definitive agreement to acquire all outstanding equity from Tianyuan's shareholders…

TotalEnergies forms renewable-energy JV in Brazil

TotalEnergies SE (TTE; Paris) and Casa dos Ventos (CDV), Brazil's leading renewable energy developer, announced the creation of a 34%(TTE)/66%(CDV) joint venture to jointly develop, build and operate the renewable portfolio of Casa Dos Ventos. This portfolio includes 700 MW…

Topsoe technology selected for renewable diesel project in Saskatchewan

Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) has been selected by Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL) to officially support the production of renewable diesel in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. FCL has chosen Topsoe’s HydroFlex process to produce low-carbon renewable diesel. Henrik Rasmussen, Managing Director, the…

Plug Power and Olin launch JV to construct hydrogen plant in Louisiana

Plug expects to produce 1,000 tons per day of liquid hydrogen by 2028. Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.) and Olin Corp. (Clayton, Mo.) recently launched their joint venture to begin with the construction of a 15-ton-per-day hydrogen plant in St.…

Cashco honored by Kansas Department of Commerce

Cashco, Inc. (Ellsworth, Kansas) has won a statewide award for Manufacturing/Distribution by the Kansas Department of Commerce for the 2022 To the Stars: Kansas Business Awards. The annual awards program recognizes businesses across the state for the valuable contributions they…

ICL Group to build LFP cathode-material manufacturing plant in St. Louis

ICL  Group (Tel Aviv, Israel), a leading global specialty minerals company, plans to build a $400-million lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathode active material (CAM) manufacturing plant in St. Louis. This is expected to be the first large-scale LFP material manufacturing…

ExxonMobil to sell Billings refinery to Par Pacific Holdings

Par Pacific Holdings, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the 63,000-bbl/d Billings refinery and associated marketing and logistics assets (collectively, the Billings Assets) from ExxonMobil Corp. (Houston) and two of its subsidiaries for a…