A CO2 capture process, jointly developed by Heidelberg Materials, Linde GmbH (Pullach) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, all Germany), and based on BASF’s advanced OASE blue technology, will be used for the first time at a large-scale CO2-capture facility operated by…
Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) announced its final investment decision on additional renewable products production capacity in Singapore in December 2018. The EUR 1.6 billion Singapore Expansion project has been successfully completed, the start-up of the refinery expansion has been completed…
Honeywell announced that it will provide its Ethanol to Jet (ETJ) processing technology to Summit Next Gen, an affiliate of Summit Agricultural Group. Summit Next Gen will utilize Honeywell's ETJ technology to convert low-carbon ethanol into SAF. Honeywell UOP ETJ…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that ORLEN Południe, a leading player in biofuels in Poland, has recently concluded the first year of operation of its BioPG plant, converting glycerol, a by-product of biodiesel production, into renewable propylene glycol (BioPG). BioPG…
The Mitsubishi Chemical Group (MCG Group; Toyko) will begin providing samples of DURABI D93 Series (under development), a new grade of the plant-derived bioengineering plastic DURABI with a higher biobased synthetic polymer content. DURABIO is a bioengineering plastic made…
Montana Renewables, LLC (MRL) hosted key aviation stakeholders, including Montana Governor Greg Gianforte, to celebrate the first production and initial shipments of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) under a multi-year agreement with Shell Trading (US) Company (Shell). The start of production…
Worley (North Sydney, Australia) and Graforce, a German provider of zero carbon hydrogen plants are cooperating to scale methane electrolysis (plasmolysis) starting in Australia, Pacific, Asia and China. Plasmolysis converts natural gas, LNG, flare gas and other hydrocarbons into hydrogen…
Dow (Midland, Michigan; www.dow.com) and X-Energy Reactor Company, LLC (Rockville, Md; www.x-energy.com) announced that Dow has selected its Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) Seadrift Operations manufacturing site in Texas for its proposed advanced small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear project. The project…
Royal Vopak (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced the start of operation at 16 new tanks with a combined capacity of 64,000 cubic meters at its Vlaardingen terminal in the port of Rotterdam. The new tanks are designed to store waste-based feedstocks…
LanzaTech Global, Inc. (Skokie, Ill.) has joined forces with Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) to pioneer groundbreaking technology solutions aimed at reducing the carbon footprint of the oil industry while simultaneously producing sustainable fuels and chemicals. LanzaTech's carbon capture…