The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne, Ill.) recently partnered with Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) to perform a critical lifecycle analysis of Gevo's next-generation technology. Using data provided by Gevo, Argonne’s Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Technologies (GREET)…
Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) announced that it will start up the first electrolyzer in the northern Spanish region of the Basque Country in the second half of 2022, to produce renewable hydrogen at its Petronor refinery. The facility will have…
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany has opened a second production line for silica-based effect pigments in Gernsheim, Germany. Around 750 employees work at this site, which is home Merck’s largest pigment production facility worldwide. With this investment, Merck will significantly increase…
Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) and Chevron Lummus Global LLC, (CLG) announced the execution of a Joint Cooperation and Licensing Agreement for a complete suite of residue hydrocracking solutions. This will include Eni's EST (Eni Slurry Technology) and LC-FINING, LC-MAX, LC-SLURRY…
Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.) announced that its Performance Products division has completed the initial phases of a project to expand and widen its portfolio of E-GRADE specialty amines, including quaternary amine alternatives to tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH) and related products…
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), bp plc and Masdar announced the signing of strategic framework agreements to expand upon the U.A.E. and U.K.’s longstanding track record of bilateral partnership in sustainability, including the potential development of clean hydrogen hubs…
Plug Power (Latham, N.Y.) is expanding its green hydrogen ecosystem to the U.S. west coast with the construction of a new state-of-the-art production facility in Fresno County, California. Green hydrogen is produced through the electrolysis of water with electricity generated…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL) announced a strategic partnership on battery materials solutions, including cathode active materials (CAM) and battery recycling. The collaboration aims at developing a sustainable battery value chain, in support of…
Petrofac Ltd. (St. Helier, U.K.) has signed an agreement with carbon capture technology company, CO2 Capsol, which enables collaboration on carbon capture projects. Under the terms of the non-exclusive agreement, Petrofac will work as a preferred engineering services partner to…
Toray Plastics (America), Inc., announced that it has signed a letter of intent with Arlin Mfg. Co., Inc., located in Lowell, Massachusetts, to sell its Old Baptist Road plant (located in North Kingstown, Rhode Island) to Arlin. Arlin will continue…