Graphitic Energy (formerly known as C-Zero; Santa Barbara, Calif.) has commissioned its pilot plant at the Southwest Research Institute (SWRI) in San Antonio, TX. This state-of-the-art facility is the company’s first at-scale demonstration of its novel form of methane pyrolysis…
OMV AG (Vienna, Austria) and the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) have signed a grant agreement for OMV’s planned industrial ReOil plant, securing up to €81.6 million funding. This marks the first time that OMV receives a…
Elcogen AS (Talinn, Estonia) announced the official launch of the Horizon Europe SYRIUS project following a successful kick-off meeting hosted by project partner, Acciai Speciali Terni Spa. The SYRIUS project aims to transform the steel industry by enabling hydrogen…
Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Riograndense Refinery (RPR) successfully completed an industrial scale co-processing test using 5% pyrolysis bio-oil (a non-food biomass raw material) combined with fossil feedstock. The refinery, located in Rio Grande, southern Brazil, has Petrobras, Ultra…
TotalEnergies SE (Paris) and RWE AG (Essen, Germany) have for the first time agreed on conditions for the purchase of green hydrogen over a period of 15 years. The agreement stipulates that TotalEnergies will purchase around 30,000 metric tons of…
ABB, Inc. (Zurich, Switzerland) has signed a Leveraged Procurement Agreement (LPA) to support as the automation partner for Dow’s Path2Zero project at Fort Saskatchewan in Alberta, Canada. According to Dow, the project, which is currently under construction, will create the…
Heidelberg Materials North America announced that the Government of Canada’s Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) department has committed to finalizing negotiations on a Contribution Agreement for the groundbreaking carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) project at the company’s…
BASF Corp. and Braven Environmental LLC (Tarrytown, N.Y.) have signed a supply agreement for Braven PyChem. This advanced recycled feedstock, derived from mixed plastic waste, will partially replace fossil resources at the BASF TotalEnergies Petrochemical (BTP) facility in Port Arthur,…
Saint-Gobain Ceramics, through its subsidiary Saint-Gobain NorPro, announced its intent to build a new manufacturing facility in Wheatfield, New York. The facility will revitalize an historic industrial property as the company expands its production of catalyst carriers to serve a…
Momentive Performance Materials Group (Momentive; Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Jiangxi Hungpai Material Co., Ltd. (Hungpai), a silicon-based research and manufacturing leader in China, announced the signing of a definitive agreement to establish a joint venture (JV) focused on the manufacturing, promotion,…