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North America’s largest green-hydrogen plant begins operations in California

H2B2 Electrolysis Technologies, Inc. (H2B2) has unveiled SoHyCal – the largest operational green hydrogen production plant powered entirely by renewable energy in North America to date. This pioneering project, from both a technical and commercial point of view, consists of…

Eni and Saipem sign agreement to develop new biorefineries

Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) and Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) have signed an agreement for the development of biorefining projects. It was signed  by Giuseppe Ricci, Chief Operating Officer for Energy Evolution at Eni, and Alessandro Puliti, Chief Executive…

Braskem and Oxiteno to collaborate on bio-based ethylene supply

Braskem S.A. and Indorama Ventures IOD - Oxiteno (both São Paulo, Brazil) have  announced a partnership to supply bio-attributed ethylene from renewable sources. Bio-attributed ethylene, certified by ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification), will be used by Oxiteno to create…

Alfa Laval launches new business unit to serve hydrogen projects

Alfa Laval AB (Lund, Sweden) is establishing a new business unit –Electrolyzer and Fuel Cell Technologies – with the aim of capturing business opportunities in the hydrogen sector. This initiative underlines the company’s commitment to driving the energy transformation towards…

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…