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Chevron and Cummins exploring strategic alliance for hydrogen opportunities
Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.), through its Chevron Products Company division (Chevron), and Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.) announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore a strategic alliance to develop commercially viable business opportunities in hydrogen and other alternative…
Major green ammonia and hydrogen project announced in Morocco
Fusion Fuel Green PLC (Dublin, Ireland), a green hydrogen technology company, announced that Aziz Rabbah, the Moroccan Minister of Energy, Mines and Environment, unveiled the HEVO Ammonia Morocco project at an event yesterday in Rabat, Morocco. The project is Morocco’s…
Asahi Kasei to double capacity for PVDF membranes
Asahi Kasei Corp.’s (Tokyo, Japan) Medical business has decided to expand production capacity of hydrophilic PVDF (polyvinylidene fluoride) hollow-fiber membranes for Planova BioEX filters at its spinning plant in Oita, Japan. The global COVID-19 pandemic has increased the urgent demand…
Abengoa advances commissioning of Rabigh desalination plant
Abengoa SA (Seville, Spain) has achieved the production of the first permeate, that is, obtaining the first desalinated water, at the 600,000-m3/d desalination plant that it is building in the city of Rabigh, in Saudi Arabia This important milestone occurred…
Linde starts up liquid hydrogen plant in Texas
Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced that it has started up its fifth liquid hydrogen plant in the U.S., reinforcing the company's robust supply network of plants in California, Alabama, Indiana and New York. The new plant in La Porte, Texas,…
Preem and Vattenfall studying potential 50-MW electrolysis plant at Lysekil refinery
Earlier this year, Vattenfall AB and Preem AB (both Stockholm, Sweden) instigated a strategic analysis of the role of fossil-free hydrogen from electrolysis, produced using fossil-free electricity, could play for Preem’s potential to produce biofuels on a large scale. Work…
Chemours breaks ground on $93-million mining facility in Florida
The Chemours Co. (Wilmington, Del.) recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new $93-million mining facility on land leased from Camp Blanding in Clay County, Florida. The project will use mining technology that minimizes environmental impact and was recently deployed…
Shell and Uniper sign MOU to develop European hydrogen value chain
Shell Gas & Power Developments B.V. and Uniper Hydrogen GmbH (“Uniper”) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore accelerating the development of a hydrogen economy in Europe. Under the MoU they intend to find joint opportunities to couple…
ArcelorMittal to convert Sestao, Spain site into full-scale zero-carbon steel plant
ArcelorMittal (Luxembourg) announced that its Sestao plant in Spain will become the world’s first full-scale zero carbon-emissions steel plant. The development is the result of a memorandum of understanding signed today with the Government of Spain that will see an…
Vynova to construct new potassium carbonate plant in Tessenderlo
Vynova Group (Tessenderlo, Belgium) announced that it will build a state-of-the-art production plant for liquid potassium carbonate (K2CO3) at its site in Tessenderlo, Belgium. The new and larger facility will replace the company's existing potassium carbonate plant in Tessenderlo and…