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Tata Chemicals Europe opens U.K.’s largest carbon-capture plant

Tata Chemicals Europe opened the U.K.'s first industrial scale carbon capture and usage plant today, signalling a key milestone in the race to meet the UK's net zero targets. The £20 million investment has been completed by U.K.-based Tata Chemicals…

Amyris starts up fermentation plant in Brazil

Amyris, Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.)  has successfully started operation at its new precision fermentation plant in Barra Bonita, Brazil. The greenfield site at Barra Bonita establishes Amyris as the leading manufacturer of highly engineered organisms at industrial scale. The first of…

Everfuel and Greenstat make progress on 20-MW green-H2 project in Norway

Everfuel A/S (Herning, Denmark) and Greenstat ASA (Bergen, Norway) announced the award a grant of NOK 148 million (around $15 million) from Enova to support the development of the Hydrogen Hub Agder. The hub includes the construction of a 20-MW…

BASF and Shell validating adsorption technologies for green-hydrogen production

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has worked with Shell to evaluate and de-risk BASF’s Puristar R0-20 and Sorbead Adsorption Technology for the use in green-hydrogen production. The two technologies purify and dehydrate the product hydrogen stream from the water electrolysis process…

TÜV SÜD launches new hydrogen-safety certifications

TÜV SÜD has announced two new certification marks, one for the certification of fuel-cell systems and one for components of hydrogen systems. By using these marks, manufacturers can inspire trust in the safety and performance of their systems and components.…

Air Liquide and Siemens Energy create hydrogen electrolyzer JV

Air Liquide SA (Paris) and Siemens Energy (Munich) announced the creation of a joint venture dedicated to the series production of industrial scale renewable hydrogen electrolyzers in Europe. With two of the global leading companies in their field combining their…

Honeywell UOP awarded engineering contract for refinery upgrade in Alexandria, Egypt

Honeywell announced that Alexandria National Refining and Petrochemical Co. (ANRPC) will upgrade their existing naphtha complex using Honeywell UOP engineering services to increase the production of gasoline which will help decrease the dependency on imported fuels in Egypt.   The…

Siemens enters partnership with pyrolysis engineering firm Pyrum Innovations

Pyrum Innovations AG (Dillingen, Germany) has signed a partnership agreement with the Siemens technology group. The aim of the partnership is to further promote, optimize and scale Pyrum's pyrolysis systems technologically and economically with the digitalization and automation portfolio from…

Umicore and Idemitsu to jointly develop solid-state battery materials

Umicore N.V. (Brussels, Belgium) and Idemitsu Kosan Co. (Tokyo) have agreed to jointly develop high-performance catholyte materials for solid-state batteries, combining their respective expertise in cathode active materials and solid electrolytes, and aiming to provide the technological breakthrough to extend…

Clariant announces reorganization into three key business units

Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland) announced changes to its leadership and organizational structure as part of the company’s ongoing initiatives to implement its purpose-led strategy and cultural transformation. The new operating model allows Clariant to position itself for long-term sustainable growth…