Abengoa SA (Seville, Spain) has successfully completed the start-up, commissioning and Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT) of the demonstration plant of the Grasshopper project, which is focused on the production of sustainable energy through the use of fuel cells from hydrogen. …
Methanex Corp. (Vancouver, B.C., Canada) has made a significant investment to reduce carbon emissions at its Motunui facility in New Zealand. This multi-million-dollar investment will involve improving the technology in the facility’s distillation columns over the next 12 months. The…
Green hydrogen company Protium (London, U.K.) announced that it is expanding capacity at its flagship Tees Valley Net Zero hydrogen project to nearly 70 MW. The company announced its flagship green hydrogen project last year, located on Wilton Universal Group’s…
Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) announced that it will introduce a pilot-scale mechanical waste processing facility in an effort to develop a material recycling business using waste plastics collected from end-of-life automobiles. The Company will start providing samples of recycled…
Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.) and Ferroglobe PLC (London) announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly develop high-silicon anode solutions for electric vehicle (EV) batteries. Rapid global growth of the EV market, the need for more sustainable and higher energy…
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced that Lihuayi Weiyuan Chemical Co., Ltd. selected its Novolen PP technology for a new unit in Shandong Province, China. Lummus' scope includes the technology license for the PP unit as well as basic design engineering, training…
Honeywell says that Biotrend Energy (Istanbul, Turkey) will apply Honeywell’s UpCycle process technology in Biotrend Energy’s planned plastics recycling factory in Turkey. The facility will convert mixed waste plastics into recycled polymer feedstock (RPF), enabling the development of a circular…
Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.) and Lhyfe announced the world’s first production of hydrogen at sea on a floating platform with a Plug state-of the-art 1-megawatt electrolyzer on an offshore green hydrogen production site in Saint-Nazaire, France. Plug’s electrolyzer will…
Fragrance manufacturer Givaudan and LanzaTech NZ Inc. (Skokie, Ill.) have announced a collaboration for the development of sustainable fragrance ingredients from renewable carbon. Renewable carbon is carbon that avoids or substitutes the use of additional fossil carbon. Examples include carbon…
Arkema S.A. (Colombes, France) is boosting its previously announced global Pebax elastomer capacity expansion at its Serquigny, France site from +25% to +40% in two separate phases, firstly in Q1 2023 by raising global capacity by 15%, the additional 25%…