OMV Petrom S.A. (Bucharest, Romania) is investing approximately EUR 130 million in the next 3 years to build a new production unit for aromatic products at the Petrobrazi refinery in Romania. The unit will function at modern BAT (Best Available…
SGP BioEnergy announced the addition of green hydrogen production to the largest planned advanced biorefinery in the world, allowing the facility to operate with net-zero emissions. In May, SGP BioEnergy announced the plan for Biorefineria Ciudad Dorada (Golden City Biorefinery),…
Infineum, a joint venture between Shell and ExxonMobil, and Entegris, Inc. (Billerica, Mass.) announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement for Infineum to acquire Entegris’ Pipeline and Industrial Materials business (PIM). Entegris’ PIM business is part of…
Asahi Kasei Europe recently became a member of a pioneering joint project on blockchain technology for the ISCC PLUS certification. Led by the Dutch software provider Circularise and the Japanese trading company Marubeni, this project aims at enhancing the efficiency…
The Chemours Co. (Wilmington, Del.) announced plans to enter into a joint venture (JV) with BWT FUMATECH Mobility GmbH, an established player in multiple hydrogen markets, focused on membrane manufacturing in the field of fuel cell technology. Completion of the…
Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.) will begin producing electrolyzers in the United States, underscoring the company’s continued dedication to advancing the nation’s green hydrogen economy. Electrolyzer production will take place in Fridley, Minnesota, starting at 500 megawatts (MW) of manufacturing capacity…
Cepsa Quimica (Madrid, Spain) and the Port of Rotterdam are to work together to establish the first green hydrogen corridor between southern and northern Europe, ensuring a green hydrogen supply chain between two of Europe’s main ports, Rotterdam and Algeciras, as…
LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) and 23 Oaks Investments, Leiferde/Lower Saxony, Germany, signed an agreement to create Source One Plastics, a joint venture that will build an energy efficient, advanced plastic waste sorting and recycling facility in Germany. Using…
Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced it has started up a new air separation unit (ASU) to supply gaseous oxygen and nitrogen to Wanhua Chemical Group (Wanhua), the world’s largest producer of isocyanate (MDI), a key ingredient in the manufacture of…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) will invest in a new world-scale Neopentyl Glycol (NPG) plant with an annual production capacity of 80,000 metric tons at its new Zhanjiang Verbund site, China. With the new NPG plant expected to come on stream…