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Haldor Topsoe selected as technology provider for Covenant Energy’s renewable-fuels project in Saskatchewan
Covenant Energy Ltd. (Saskatchewan, Canada) has chosen Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex renewable fuel technology to produce clean diesel from vegetable oil. The 6,500 barrels-per-day renewable diesel unit will be built in Saskatchewan, Canada, and is scheduled to go into operation early in…
Yokogawa Bio Frontier commences production of sulfated cellulose nanofibers
Yokogawa Bio Frontier, Inc., a subsidiary of Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo), announced that it has commenced sales of 100% plant-derived sulfated cellulose nanofiber (S-CNF). The company is initially providing samples to prospective customers, and will subsequently scale up production in…
Saipem awarded $520-million contract for ADNOC Sour Gas expansion
Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) has received a Letter of Award from ADNOC Sour Gas, a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) , for a new contract related to the Optimum Shah Gas Expansion (OSGE) &…
LyondellBasell and Neste ink long-term agreement to make polymers and chemicals from renewable feedstock
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) and Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) announced a long-term commercial agreement under which LyondellBasell will source Neste RE, a feedstock from Neste that has been produced from 100% renewable feedstock from bio-based sources, such as waste and…
Aemetis awards contracts to Worley, Koch Project Solutions for ‘Carbon Zero’ renewable-fuels plant
Aemetis, Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.) has awarded an engineering services contract to Worley (North Sydney, Australia) for the Aemetis ‘Carbon Zero’ renewable jet and diesel plant in Riverbank, California. The Aemetis Carbon Zero renewable jet and diesel project is designed to hydrotreat…
Messer to build large-scale ASU in central Texas
Messer Americas, a part of Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany), announced plans to build a large-scale air separation unit (ASU) to manufacture liquid atmospheric products in central Texas. The new air separation plant will produce medical and industrial gases…
Mitsubishi Chemical enters into a license agreement with Mura Technology for chemical recycling process
Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo) has entered into a license agreement with Mura Technology, Ltd. pertaining to a process (HydroPRS) for manufacturing raw materials (regenerated oils) for chemical products from plastic wastes. MCC is continuing to consider the conversion of…
Kemira completes emulsions and bio-acrylamide expansion in Alabama
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) has completed the installation of new state-of-the art production units for emulsion polymers and bio-acrylamide monomer at its manufacturing site in Mobile, Alabama. Production has started and the facility is expected to be fully operational during…
TotalEnergies, Sunfire and Fraunhofer to launch carbon-neutral methanol project in Leuna, Germany
TotalEnergies (Paris) announced the launch of the e-CO2Met project at the Hydrogen Lab Leuna together with the electrolyzer manufacturer Sunfire, the Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes CBP and the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS. Methanol can…
Borealis secures chemically recycled feedstock for production of base chemicals and polyolefins
Borealis Group AG (Vienna, Austria) has signed an agreement with Renasci Oostende Recycling NV to acquire the entire chemically recycled feedstock output from its high-tech recycling center in Oostende, Belgium. With the projected 20,000-ton/yr output delivered to Borealis, this agreement…