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AkzoNobel’s largest European solar energy plant goes live in Poland

A major solar energy plant – AkzoNobel’s (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) largest in Europe – has been installed at its Pilawa site in Poland, further powering the company’s efforts to transition all its production locations to renewable electricity. Covering nearly…

Linde Engineering selected by NextChem to supply carbon capture technology to ADNOC project

Linde Engineering (Pullach, Germany; www.linde-engineering.com) has signed an agreement with NEXTCHEM (Rome, Italy; www.nextchem.it) to provide carbon capture technology to Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s (ADNOC; www.adnoc.ae) Hail and Ghasha project. Located in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the project…

OCSiAl opens production facility for graphene nanotubes in Serbia

OCSiAl (Luxembourg; www.ocsial.com), a leader in graphene nanotube technology, has opened its first European production facility. The facility, located in Serbia, will produce TUBALL™ nanotubes and nanotube-based products. More than 1,500 companies worldwide, including leading automotive, battery, electronics, construction, aerospace,…

Hystar awarded grant for automated industrial production of electrolyzer stacks

Hystar AS (Høvik, Norway) is to receive a €26 million grant from the EU Innovation Fund, one of the world’s largest funding programs for innovative low-carbon technologies. The grant will be used for the installation and operation of Hystar’s automated…

Metso to deliver precious-metals refinery for e-waste recycling plant in India

Hindalco Industries Ltd., a global aluminum and copper processor, and a flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group, has awarded Metso Corp. (Espoo, Finland) an order for the delivery of engineering and key equipment for a new precious metals refinery…

Technip Energies and Enerkem formalize collaboration to advance waste-to-sustainable fuels and circular chemicals technology

Technip Energies (Paris) and Enerkem Inc. (Montreal, Queb., Canada) have signed a Collaboration Agreement, solidifying their commitment to accelerate the deployment of Enerkem’s technology converting non-recyclable waste and residues into sustainable fuels and circular chemical products. Enerkem’s groundbreaking gasification technology…

Cemex and Linde to receive E.U. funding for CO2-capture project at cement plant in Germany

A consortium comprised of Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V. (San Pedro Garza García, Mexico) and Linde (Guildford, U.K.) has been selected to receive €157 million in funding from the E.U. Innovation Fund for a pioneering CO2 capture project at Cemex’s Rüdersdorf…

Verdagy opens gigawatt-scale electrolyzer factory in Silicon Valley

Verdagy (Moss Landing, Calif.) announced the grand opening of the first Department of Energy (DOE)-supported electrolyzer manufacturing facility in the United States. The facility is in Newark, California and features more than 100,000 square feet of manufacturing space with the…

Mercedes-Benz opens in-house battery-recycling facility in Germany

Mercedes-Benz opened Europe's first battery recycling plant with an integrated mechanical-hydrometallurgical process making it the first car manufacturer worldwide to close the battery recycling loop with its own in-house facility. The recycling plant in Kuppenheim, southern Germany, creates a genuine…

FuelCell Energy and KHNP to collaborate on clean hydrogen production projects in Korea

FuelCell Energy, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.) and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Ltd (KHNP) announced that the two companies have agreed to jointly pursue hydrogen energy business initiatives and have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) outlining the possibilities. The…