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Bridgestone partners with LanzaTech to on tire recycling technologies

Bridgestone Americas (Bridgestone), a global leader in tires and sustainable mobility solutions, today announced an exclusive partnership with Carbon Capture and Transformation (CCT) company, LanzaTech NZ, Inc. (LanzaTech) to address end-of-life tire waste. The two companies will co-develop the first…

LyondellBasell sells Australian polymers business to Viva Energy Group

Viva Energy Group Ltd. has agreed to acquire LyondellBasell Australia (LBA), a Geelong-based national polymer manufacturer and distributor which has its production facility located inside the footprint of Geelong Refinery. This will be a key step in the development of…

Sasol joins German consortium project focused on cement and SAF production

Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa) has joined Concrete Chemicals project, an innovative consortium of Sasol’s new business unit Sasol ecoFT, global cement producer Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V. (Monterrey, Mexico) and German renewable energy company ENERTRAG. The international consortium sets course…

Cemvita Factory partners with Fluor to scale sustainable mining technology

Cemvita Factory Inc. (Houston) announced that the company has partnered with Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) to accelerate commercialization of innovative biomining technology across several commodities. This collaboration aims to bring together resources and expertise to support design development, optimization, and…

Air Products acquires Air Liquide’s industrial gases business in the U.A.E. and Bahrain

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced that it has acquired from Air Liquide the following businesses: Air Liquide Emirates for Industrial Gases LLC (ALEMIR) and Orca Industrial Gases LLC, which includes liquid bulk, packaged gases and specialty gases of Air…

KBR awarded technology contracts in Taiwan

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a contract for its ROSE supercritical Solvent De-Asphalting (SDA) technology and Vacuum Distillation Unit (VDU) from Taiwan's state-owned oil company, CPC Corporation. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide…

ADM invests in expanded soybean-processing capabilities in Germany

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (ADM; Chicago) announced a growth investment to add the ability to process non-GMO soybeans at its oilseed facility in Mainz, Germany.  "A key pillar of our growth strategy is our expanding portfolio of differentiated products, which are powering…

NOVA Chemicals and Enerkem advance commercialization of chemical recycling technology

NOVA Chemicals Corp. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) and Enerkem Inc. (Montréal, Québec, Canada) are advancing their versatile and energy efficient chemical recycling technology to pilot stage in Edmonton, Alberta, thanks in part to CDN$4.5 million in funding from Alberta Innovates. The…

ArcelorMittal acquires majority stake in voestalpine’s HBI facility in Texas

ArcelorMittal has signed an agreement to acquire an 80% shareholding in voestalpine’s world-class Hot Briquetted Iron (HBI) plant located in Corpus Christi, Texas. voestalpine will retain the remaining 20%. The transaction values the Corpus Christi operations at $1 billion and…

Wood awarded engineering work for Total Eren’s green hydrogen project in Chile

Wood plc (Aberdeen. Scotland) will provide conceptual engineering for Total Eren’s H2 Magallanes Project, a large-scale green hydrogen production facility, to be located in the commune of San Gregorio, in the Magallanes region, Southern Chile. Wood’s scope covers the development…