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TotalEnergies, Aramco and SABIC make certified circular polymers from plastic waste

TotalEnergies S.A. (Paris), Aramco and SABIC have, for the first time in the Middle East and North Africa, successfully converted oil derived from plastic waste into ISCC+ certified circular polymers. The plastic pyrolysis oil, also called plastic waste derived oil…

Wastefront and VTTI join forces to deploy new tire-recycling plants

Wastefront AS announced a strategic partnership with leading global energy storage infrastructure provider VTTI, for investment of up to $43 million and an agreement to reach a final investment decision for eight global tire-recycling sites within a five-year period.  VTTI –…

Fluor and Carbfix announce carbon-capture collaboration

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announcedits memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Carbfix  (Reykjavík) , the world’s first carbon dioxide (CO2) mineral storage operator, to pursue integrated carbon capture and storage (CCS) solutions. Together, the companies look to minimize the impacts of…

Rio Tinto and Sumitomo to build hydrogen pilot plant to trial lower-carbon alumina refining

Rio Tinto (London) and Sumitomo Corp. (Tokyo) will build a first-of-a-kind hydrogen plant in Gladstone, Australia, as part of a A$111.1 million program aimed at lowering carbon emissions from the alumina refining process. The Yarwun Hydrogen Calcination Pilot Demonstration Program…

ExxonMobil to acquire CCS firm Denbury

Exxon Mobil Corp. (Houston) announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Denbury Inc. (Plano, Tex.), an experienced developer of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCS) solutions and enhanced oil recovery. The acquisition is an all-stock transaction valued…

Plug Power to supply electrolyzers for green-hydrogen projects in Australia and Europe

Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.) has announced that it is supplying electrolyzers for new green-hydrogen projects in Australia and Europe. Firstly, Plug Power has been selected to supply two 5-megawatt (MW) proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer systems for green hydrogen…

Technip Energies and LanzaTech to collaborate on CO2-to-ethylene technology

Technip Energies (Paris) and LanzaTech Global, Inc. (Skokie, Ill.) signed a Joint Collaboration Agreement to create a new pathway to sustainable ethylene utilizing their combined technologies. Together LanzaTech’s carbon capture and utilization technology with Technip Energies’ Hummingbird® technology transform waste…

H.C. Starck to establish LIB recycling center in Germany

H.C. Starck Tungsten GmbH, a subsidiary of Masan High-Tech Materials Group, is planning to establish a recycling center for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in the Harz region together with partners. To this end, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed yesterday in…

Cepsa announces first production plant for renewable isopropanol

Cepsa  (Madrid, Spain) strengthens its chemical business with the construction in Huelva of the first production plant of isopropyl alcohol, or isopropanol, from renewable or circular materials, which will make it the most competitive, innovative, and environmentally friendly facility of…

Uniper and Sasol ecoFT continue to develop first-of-its-kind SAF plant in Sweden

Uniper SE (Düsseldorf, Germany) and Sasol ecoFT have jointly applied for funding from the Swedish Energy Agency for the next phase of development and to the EU Innovation Fund for overall project funding. The final decision on the award is…