Anellotech (Pearl River, N.Y.) has produced 100% bio-based polyethylene terephthalate (PET), starting with bio-based p-Xylene using the company’s Bio-TCat technology through the subsequent downstream separation, purification, intermediate PTA (purified terephthalic acid) and final PET steps. This was the last milestone…
Advent Technologies Holdings, Inc. and BASF New Business GmbH recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The agreement aims to develop and increase the manufacturing scale of advanced fuel cell membranes designed for long-term operations under extreme conditions. BASF intends…
Sika AG (Baar, Switzerland) is opening a new technology center and manufacturing plant for high-quality adhesives and sealants in Pune, a city in the federal state of Maharashtra. Developments at the new R&D laboratories and the production in the new…
Svante, Inc. (Burnaby, B.C., Canada) and Kiewit Energy Group Inc. have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a strategic alliance to pursue industrial carbon capture projects under development by industrial carbon emitter clients in the U.S. and…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has announced that the implementation of the methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) capacity increase program for BASF’s Verbund site in Geismar, Louisiana, is progressing on schedule. Over time, BASF plans to double the capacity from 300,000 metric…
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) announced that it has signed a collaboration agreement and letter of intent with Monolith Materials (Lincoln, Neb.) for the development and potential use of carbon black produced from methane and/or biomethane for…
EPC and turnkey project management company, Nuberg EPC (New Delhi, India) has been awarded the prestigious 10 ton/d 2nd Generation Bio-Ethanol from Biomass plant project on an LSTK basis in Panipat. The project, owned by Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. (IOCL;…
W.R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.), announced the successful start-up of two 400,000-ton/yr UNIPOL PP process technology lines at Oriental Energy in Ningbo, China. This brings the total UNIPOL PP operating capacity in China to more than 6.3 million tons per year…
Avantium N.V. (Amsterdam. The Netherlands) announced that it has taken a positive Final Investment Decision (FID) on the construction of its Flagship Plant to produce furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA). The positive FID was taken after the Company fulfilled all three Key Conditions…
Novozymes A/S (Copenhagen, Denmark) and Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) have entered a collaboration agreement to develop solutions for enzymatic carbon capture, a biological and cost-effective alternative to traditional carbon capture. The ambition is to bring advanced enzyme-based carbon…