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Technip Energies and APChemi collaborating to commercialize plastic waste-to-olefins technology

Technip Energies (Paris) and APChemi Pvt Ltd. have entered into a cooperation agreement to commercialize APChemi's advanced plastic waste to high quality pyrolysis oil technology, in conjunction with Technip Energies' pyrolysis oil upgradation and steam cracking technology. APChemi's patented “Pyromax™”…

Biogest building RNG plant in South Dakota

BIOGEST America (Denver, Colo.) received an order to build an agricultural biogas plant in South Dakota. The plant has a thermal output of 156,000 MMBTU/yr. and operates on 224,000 tons/yr of cow manure. During the process, the manure is transformed…

Evonik sells RheinPerChemie business to Mumbai-based Calibre Chemicals

Calibre Chemicals (Mumbai, India), a nutrition, pharmaceuticals and personal care specialty chemicals company, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% shareholding of RheinPerChemie GmbH (RPC), from Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany). RPC, located in Rheinfelden Germany, is a…

GEA to invest €70 million to construct freeze-dryer technology center in Germany

GEA Group AG (Düsseldorf, Germany) is investing €70 million in the construction of a new pharmaceutical technology center for freeze dryers in Elsdorf in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Spread across some 40,000 m², the new facility, which is…

NextChem awarded FEED contract for renewable hydrogen plant in Portugal

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announced that its subsidiary NextChem has been awarded a Pre-FEED engineering services contract by MadoquaPower2X – the Portuguese/Dutch/Danish consortium led by Madoqua Renewables along with CIP’s Energy Transition Fund and Power2X to develop and operate…

BASF and Arcus sign agreement on the production and procurement of pyrolysis oil from mixed plastic waste

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has concluded a framework agreement for the purchase of pyrolysis oil from mixed plastic waste with ARCUS Greencycling Technologies GmbH, a technology company based in Ludwigsburg, Germany. The two companies want to contribute their respective know-how…

Air Products to supply low-carbon hydrogen for Imperial renewable-diesel refinery

Imperial Oil Ltd. (Calgary, Canada) announced a long-term contract with Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) to supply low-carbon hydrogen for Imperial’s proposed renewable diesel complex at its Strathcona refinery near Edmonton, Alberta. Air Products will provide pipeline supply from its…

Sasol and Itochu jointly studying green ammonia and hydrogen supply chain

Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Itochu Corp. (Tokyo) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly study and develop the market and supply chain for green ammonia with a focus on its use as bunkering fuel and for…

JERA, Uniper and ConocoPhillips enter collaboration for U.S. clean ammonia plant

JERA Co., Inc. (Tokyo), through its wholly owned subsidiary JERA Americas Inc., has entered into memorandums of understanding (MOU) with Uniper Global Commodities S.E. and Uniper Global Commodities North America L.L.C. on procurement and sale of LNG, and clean ammonia…

BASF inaugurates first plant of new Zhanjiang Verbund site

BASF SE (Ludwifgshafen, Germany) is inaugurating the first plant of its new Zhanjiang Verbund site in the province Guangdong in South China today. The plant will provide a capacity of 60,000 metric tons of engineering plastics compounds per year in…