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BASF receives funding approval for 54-MW water electrolysis plant

With the approval of funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has come a major step closer in building a proton exchange membrane electrolyzer. In…

ADM and Marathon open joint soybean-processing facility in North Dakota

 ADM Co. (Chicago) and Marathon Petroleum Corp. (Findlay, Ohio) announced the opening of their joint venture soybean processing complex, Green Bison Soy Processing, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The Green Bison facility in Spiritwood is North Dakota's first dedicated soybean processing…

LyondellBasell to build industrial-scale advanced-recycling plant in Germany

LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced it has made the final investment decision to build the company's first industrial-scale catalytic advanced recycling demonstration plant at its Wesseling, Germany, site. Using LyondellBasell's proprietary MoReTec technology, this plant will be the…

Neste and Mitsui Chemicals to collaborate on renewable packaging materials

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland), Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) and Prime Polymer, a subsidiary of Mitsui Chemicals, are working together to provide more sustainable food packaging solutions for CO-OP, a brand of the Japanese Consumers Co-operative Union (JCCU). In the first…

Monarch Energy and LS Power announce green hydrogen partnership

Monarch Energy and LS Power, a New York-based Power and Energy Infrastructure manager, have formed a partnership to deploy a portfolio of green hydrogen projects throughout the United States. LS Power plans to invest up to $400 million into projects…

Sulzer Chemtech begins licensing new polymer-recycling technologies

Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) is launching a portfolio of licensing technologies to enable carbon-neutral polymer recycling. The solutions address rising demand for a more eco-conscious, circular economy of plastic and for the decarbonization of industries as a whole.  The latest…

Topsoe signs green ammonia contract with Allied Green Ammonia

Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) announced that Allied Green Ammonia Pty Ltd (Allied) has selected Topsoe’s dynamic green ammonia technology for an ammonia plant in Gove, Northern Territory, Australia The produced green ammonia is intended to be exported from Gove to…

NextChem and Dimeta to explore low-carbon dimethyl ether production

MyRechemical, part of the Sustainable Technology Solutions business unit led by NEXTCHEM, and Dimeta B.V. have agreed to carry out a study to explore the feasibility for the development of plants to produce renewable and recycled carbon Dimethyl Ether (DME),…

OCI Global and Röhm announce production of methylmethacrylate using bio-based ammonia

OCI Global N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) is supplying Röhm (Darmstadt, Germany) with bio-ammonia for the production of methyl methacrylate (MMA), an important precursor for PLEXIGLAS, the world’s most popular brand of acrylic glass.   This week, OCI Global delivered a…

Johnson Matthey demonstrates new recycling technology for fuel-cell and electrolyzer materials

Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) announced the successful lab scale demonstration of its new HyRefine technology for recycling hydrogen fuel cell and electrolyser materials. While there are established routes to recycle the platinum group metals (PGMs), often the ionomer isn’t…