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Honeywell technology selected for SAF production in China

Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that Sichuan Jinshang Environmental Protection Technology Co. (JSRE) will use Honeywell Ecofining technology to produce nearly 300,000 metric tons per year (approximately 6,000 barrels per day) of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at its newly…

Ineos Inovyn invests in solar farm to significantly cut CO2 emissions in Belgium

Ineos Inovyn (London, U.K.) has announced investment in HELIOS, a 90,000 panel solar farm spanning 30 hectares, to provide renewable electricity exclusively to its site at Jemeppe-sur-Sambre, Belgium. Through an exclusive power purchase agreement, the solar farm will provide over…

Technip Energies and John Cockerill to create JV for integrated green-hydrogen solutions

Technip Energies (Paris) and John Cockerill (Seraing, Belgium), two industrial leaders in the hydrogen market, announce the launch of Rely, a unique provider of integrated and competitive green hydrogen solutions. Energy and heavy industries are at a major turning point.…

Nel plans large-scale electrolyzer manufacturing facility in Michigan

Nel Hydrogen ASA (Oslo, Norway) announced its plans to build a new automated gigawatt electrolyzer manufacturing facility in Michigan. When fully developed, the facility will employ more than 500 people and be among the largest electrolyser manufacturing plants in the…

Albemarle to double lithium hydroxide output in Australia

Albemarle Corporation (Charlotte, N.C.) announced its decision to build two additional processing trains at the leading-edge Kemerton lithium hydroxide plant in Western Australia. The additional trains will be wholly owned and operated by Albemarle and would increase the facility’s production…

Neste progresses green hydrogen plans at Porvoo refinery

In accordance with its ambition to reach carbon neutral production by 2035, Neste is working on a 120 MW electrolyzer project to produce renewable (green) hydrogen at its Porvoo refinery in Finland. The company has now decided to proceed to…

Air Liquide to provide carbon capture technology for Holcim’s new cement plant in Belgium

Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) and Holcim Ltd. (Zug, Switzerland) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to pursue a project to decarbonize Holcim’s new cement production plant under development in Belgium, using Air Liquide proprietary Cryocap carbon capture innovative technology.…

Saipem and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries sign agreement for post-combustion carbon capture

Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo) have signed an agreement for post-combustion carbon capture. It is a General License Agreement enabling Saipem to deploy Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ advanced post-combustion CO2 capture technologies in…

Cepsa awards Técnicas Reunidas the engineering contract for its second-generation biofuels plant in Huelva

Cepsa  (Madrid, Spain) has awarded Técnicas Reunidas S.A. (TR; Madrid, Spain) the contract for the detailed engineering of the largest second-generation (2G) biofuels plant in southern Europe, which Cepsa will start up together with Bio-Oils, with an investment of up…

Asahi Kasei and Microwave Chemical launch joint demonstration project for chemical recycling of polyamide 66

Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo) and Microwave Chemical Co., Ltd. launched a joint demonstration project with the objective of commercializing a chemical recycling process for polyamide 66 (PA66, also called nylon 66) using microwave technology. The process utilizes microwaves to depolymerize…