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OMV advances one of the largest electrolysis plants for green hydrogen in Europe

OMV AG (Vienna, Austria) has laid the foundation stone for one of the largest electrolysis plants for green hydrogen in Europe. The 140-MW plant in Bruck an der Leitha is scheduled to go into operation at the end of 2027.…

Arkema launches Battery Dry Coating Laboratory in Normandy

Arkema S.A. (Colombes, France) officially launched its Battery Dry Coating Laboratory, located at the Cerdato Research Center in Normandy, France, together with its valued customers and partners. This state-of-the-art facility complements Arkema’s global network of R&D labs dedicated to the…

Energy Vault, PG&E complete world’s first ultra-long-duration hybrid battery +hydrogen energy-storage microgrid

Energy Vault Holdings Inc., a leader in sustainable, grid-scale energy storage solutions, and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE: PCG), today announced the successful completion and commercial operation of the Calistoga Resiliency Center (CRC),…

MilliporeSigma opens filtration manufacturing facility in Ireland

MilliporeSigma (Billerica, Mass.), the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, announces the opening of a €150 million filtration manufacturing facility in Blarney Business Park, Cork, Ireland. The site is…

Porsche, BASF and BEST complete chemical recycling pilot project

Porsche AG and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany), in collaboration with technology partner BEST - Bioenergy and Sustainable Technologies GmbH, have successfully completed a pilot project on recycling mixed waste from end-of-life vehicles. The pilot project demonstrates the recyclability of high-performance…

X-ELIO starts up renewable-power plant to support BASF Freeport operations

X-ELIO (Madrid, Spain) launched operations at its Liberty Energy Project in Dayton, Texas. The Liberty project, which combines 72 MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity with an additional 60 MW of battery storage capacity, is X-ELIO's first combined solar PV…

Eni Storage Systems to launch production hub for LFP batteries at Brindisi

Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) and Seri Industrial announce that Eni Storage Systems, a joint venture established by Eni (50% plus one share) and Fib (50% minus one share), a Seri Industrial subsidiary, has begun the operations in the development of…

Borealis starts up compounding line for recyclate-based polyolefins

Borealis is proud to announce that its new compounding line for recyclate-based polyolefins (rPO) is now fully operational in Beringen, Belgium. This milestone marks a significant step forward in helping customers meet their circularity and sustainability targets—without sacrificing performance and…

Industry leaders developing high-temperature methanol fuel cell

MAIRE S.p.A. (Milan) announced that NEXTCHEM and Siemens Energy signed a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate on the development and commercialization of a breakthrough methanol high-temperature fuel cell, based on a newly designed modularized solution. With an initial focus on…

GF achieves carbon-neutrality at modernized valve-manufacturing site

As part of a modernization project at its Seewis site in Switzerland, which manufactures plastic valves and actuators, Georg Fischer Ltd. (GF; Schaffhausen, Switzerland) has built a fully automated storage system with more than 60,000 slots and installed a new…