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Solugen and ADM announce plans for biomanufacturing complex in Minnesota

Solugen (Houston), a rapidly scaling climate technology company that is reimagining the chemistry of everyday life, and ADM Co. (Chicago) announced a strategic partnership to scale a range of innovative, plant-based specialty chemicals and bio-based building block molecules in a…

OMV to advance chemical recycling with new plastics-sorting plant

OMV AG (Vienna, Austria) announced the final investment decision to build an innovative sorting plant developed by Interzero to produce feedstock for chemical recycling. In total, OMV will invest an amount of over EUR 170 mn to build this state-of-the-art…

Versalis begins construction of chemical recycling plant in Italy

Versalis, Eni’s chemical company, has begun construction of a demo plant in Mantua, Italy to develop Hoop, its proprietary technology for chemical recycling of mixed plastic waste. Hoop stems from a joint project with Italian engineering company S.R.S. (Research and…

AGC demonstrates hydrogen-fueled glass production

AGC Inc. (Tokyo) announced that it has succeeded in a demonstration test of glass production using hydrogen as fuel. This is the first time the AGC Group has conducted tests using hydrogen in an actual production furnace. The test was…

Aramco licenses ExxonMobil technology production of renewable synthetic gasoline

ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing LLC has licensed its advanced fluid-bed methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) technology to Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) for a demonstration-scale unit to be located in NEOM's Hydrogen Innovation and Development Center. Aramco plans to use the licensed ExxonMobil technology…

Thyssenkrupp Uhde awarded contract for green methanol and methanol-to-gasoline plant in Saudi Arabia

thyssenkrupp Uhde (Dortmund, Germany) has been awarded a contract by ENOWA, NEOM’s energy and water company, for engineering services and the supply, design and procurement of equipment for a new CO2-to-methanol and methanol-to-gasoline demonstration plant at ENOWA’s Hydrogen Innovation and…

Mitsui E&S completes large-scale hydrogen-supply facility

Mitsui E&S Co., Ltd. (Tokyo) has completed the construction of a hydrogen gas supply facility (liquid hydrogen tank, hydrogen gas compressor, etc.) at at Mitsui E&SE&S Tamano Factory, aiming for the early launch of our hydrogen-related business. Mitsui E&S have…

BP selects Johnson Matthey technology for its first blue hydrogen project

Johnson Matthey plc (JM) and bp plc (both London) have signed a licensing and engineering agreement for Johnson Matthey’s LCH technology at bp’s proposed flagship low carbon (blue) hydrogen facility in Teesside, H2Teesside.    Industry in the Tees Valley accounts…

Sumitomo Chemical begins construction on ethanol-to-propylene pilot plant

Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) has begun construction of a pilot facility to establish a process for producing propylene directly from ethanol, which is attracting attention as a sustainable chemical raw material. The development of this technology is one of…

Worley to deliver FEED services to the Kintore Hydrogen project in Scotland

Worley (North Sydney, Australia)has been awarded a front end engineering design (FEED) contract for the first phase of Statera’s ground-breaking 3 GW Kintore Hydrogen project in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Once operational, the project will be the largest renewable (green) hydrogen project…