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,…
Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.) has announced it will collaborate with Advanced Material Development Ltd. (AMD), a leading nanomaterials business, through a strategic relationship to develop carbon nanotube-integrated functional composite materials in the United States. The collaboration will allow for…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Tokyo) has been awarded an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract by Nippon Shokubai Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) for a new lithium-ion battery electrolyte production plant in Fukuoka, Japan. The project is scheduled for completion in 2027and will…
Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that Blue Spruce Operating, LLC will use Honeywell’s carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies to increase the domestic production of helium at its Dry Piney Helium & Carbon Sequestration Project in Sublette County, Wyoming.…