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Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies opens microbial manufacturing facility in the U.K.

Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for biologics, vaccines, advanced therapies, and oncolytic viruses, announced the opening of its microbial fermentation manufacturing facility in Billingham, U.K. This new facility triples existing microbial production throughput with the…

Infinium and Borealis partnering on CO2-based polyolefins production

 Infinium (Sacramento, Calif.) and Borealis Group (Vienna, Austria) have entered into an agreement to enable the production of low-carbon-footprint plastics generated from waste carbon dioxide  emissions that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere. These plastics, known as polyolefins, are…

Thyssenkrupp Steel and BlueScope collaborating on carbon-neutral steel production

thyssenkrupp Steel Europe (Duisburg, Germany) is scaling up its research activities in the field of low-carbon steel production to include a cooperation with BlueScope Steel. The focus of this cooperation is on the smelting units, which form a core component…

LanzaTech announces a new project for SAF technology platform

LanzaTech Global Inc. (Chicago, Ill.; www.lanzatech.com), the carbon recycling company transforming waste carbon into sustainable fuels, chemicals, and materials, and LanzaJet, Inc., a leading sustainable fuels technology company and fuels producer, recently announced a new project with Australia’s Wagner Sustainable…

Neste expands chemical recycling logistics infrastructure at its Porvoo refinery

Neste (Espoo, Finland; www.neste.com) is expanding its logistics infrastructure for liquefied recycled raw materials at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland, including materials such as liquefied waste plastic and liquefied rubber tires. This lays the foundation to handling larger amounts of…

Panasonic Energy licenses GEMX platform for cathode active material in Li-ion batteries

  CAMX Power LLC (Lexington, Mass.; www.camxpower.com) and Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd. (www.panosonic.com/global/energy), a Panasonic Group Company, announced today that Panasonic Energy has taken a license from CAMX to the latest GEMX® platform of cathode active material for lithium-ion batteries.…

Chemical producer activity improves in Q2, according to ACC’s Economic Sentiment Index

U.S. chemical manufacturers report their company’s activity level overall (for example, sales, production and output) continued to improve in the second quarter (Q2) of 2024, according to latest findings from the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) Chemical Manufacturing…

Next Hydrogen to supply electrolysis technology for University of Minnesota’s West Central Research and Outreach Center

Next Hydrogen Solutions Inc. (Mississauga, Ont.) a designer and manufacturer of electrolyzers, has been awarded a contract by the University of Minnesota (UMN) for its latest generation electrolysis technology to be installed at the UMN West Central Research and Outreach…

Cepsa to sell liquefied gas subsidiary in Spain and Portugal to Abastible

Cespa (Madrid, Spain) has agreed to sell its subsidiaries for butane, propane, and autogas (Gasib) to Abastible S.A., a subsidiary of the Chilean Empresas Copec group and a leader in the Liquefied Gas business in Latin America. Under the agreement,…

Invista Kingston site earns ISCC PLUS certification

INVISTA (Wichita, Kan.) announced that its manufacturing site in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, has received International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS certification of its processes to verify and validate bio, circular and bio-circular adipic acid and hexamethylene diamine (HMD) use.…