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HIF Global to construct Tasmania e-Fuels facility at former Burnie Paper Mill site

E-Fuels company HIF Global (Houston) announced that it plans to locate the HIF Tasmania e-Fuels Facility at the former Burnie Paper Mill site in South Burnie. The move will bring new life to one of the region’s most significant industrial…

Versalis and Veritas sign agreement promoting advanced polystyrene recycling

Versalis S.p.A., Eni’s chemical company, and Veritas, one of Italy’s largest multi-utilities operating in the Metropolitan City of Venice and in parts of the Province of Treviso, signed an agreement to promote the circular economy, with a particular focus on…

Metsä and Andrtiz start up pulp-mill CO2-capture pilot plant

Finnish pulp, wood and paperboard company Metsä Group (Espoo, Finland) has started operating a carbon capture pilot plant at its Rauma mill, in cooperation with technology company Andritz (Graz, Austria), which supplied the plant. The pilot will test the capture…

Ascend Elements produces recycled lithium carbonate from used Li-ion batteries at commercial scale

Ascend Elements (Covington, Ga.; www.ascendelements.com) achieved a significant milestone in domestic critical minerals recovery last month – producing >99% pure, recycled lithium carbonate (Li2CO3) from black mass for the first time at commercial scale. Black mass is a dark, powdery…

Ecolab invests in Blastr Green Steel’s flagship project in Finland

Norwegian steel firm Blastr Green Steel (Blastr) announced that Ecolab Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.) has come onboard as a new strategic investor in its latest round of financing, aiming to collaborate on best-in-class water systems at its flagship ultra-low CO2…

Nuada carbon-capture technology goes live at enfinium’s energy-from-waste facility in the U.K.

Nuada’s (Newtownabbey, U.K.; www.nuadaco2.com) next-generation carbon capture solution is now operational at enfinium’s (West Yorkshire, U.K.; www.enfinium.co.uk) Ferrybridge-1 energy from waste (EfW) facility in West Yorkshire. The successful commissioning of the pilot plant marks the start of a collaboration between…

POET LLC acquires biofuels facility in Tennessee

POET LLC, the world’s largest producer of biofuels, announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Green Plains Obion, a bioethanol facility in northwestern Tennessee, increasing the company’s production capacity by 120 million gallons and improving its access to southeastern…

New dual-fermentation process enables sustainable palm-oil substitute

LanzaTech Global, Inc. (Skokie, Ill.) has announced a new technology advancement aimed at innovative feedstocks for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production. Having successfully commercialized its technology to produce ethanol for SAF via the Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ) process, the team’s most recent…

Mura Technology announces plans for new advanced-recycling facility in Singapore

Mura Technology Ltd. (London) announced plans to develop a 50,000-ton/yr facility in Singapore. This marks a significant milestone in the company’s expansion across Asia, joining existing facilities operated under license from Mura by Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation in Japan and currently…

Syzygy Plasmonics to use Honeywell UOP Fischer-Tropsch technology for SAF facility

Honeywell (Charlotte, N.C.; www.honeywell.com) today announced that Syzygy Plasmonics (Houston, Tex.; www.plasmonics.tech) , a global leader in electrified biogas-to-SAF technology, will use Honeywell UOP Fischer-Tropsch (FT) UnicrackingTM technology to make sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from dairy waste and renewable energy at…