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Accelera and GAIL to collaborate on green hydrogen projects in India

Accelera by Cummins, the zero-emissions business segment of Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.) and GAIL (India) Ltd., a Maharatna CPSE, under MoPNG and India's leading natural gas company, recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on green hydrogen and…

Técnicas Reunidas and Siemens Energy consortium awarded FEED contract for one of Europe’s largest renewable methanol plants

REOLUM, a Spanish company specialized in innovative solutions for decarbonization and energy transition, has awarded a consortium formed by Técnicas Reunidas S.A. (TR; Madrid, Spain) and Siemens Energy AG (Munich, Germany) the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) of the La Robla…

Dow invests in Dutch chemical-recycling specialist Xycle

Dow, Inc. (Midland, Mich.) announced an equity stake in Xycle, a Rotterdam-based pioneer in advanced (also known as chemical) recycling technology, alongside investors ING, Invest-NL, Polestar Capital and Vopak. This marks an important milestone in Dow’s ongoing commitment to transform…

Solvay to nearly halve CO2 emissions at Torrelavega plant with biomass project

Solvay (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) is taking another decisive step to phase out coal at its soda ash and bicarbonate plants with a new energy transition project in Torrelavega, Spain, aiming to nearly halve CO2 emissions by 2027 1 and ensure…

Wacker to replace fossil coal with biogenic carbon for production of silicon

  Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is to start replacing coal with biogenic carbon for its silicon production in Holla, Norway. A long-term supply contract to this effect has been signed with Aymium. In Holla, Norway, WACKER currently uses…

LG and Nissan among first customers for Sumitomo Chemical’s chemically recycled acrylic resin

Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) will begin selling its polymer material polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) made from methyl methacrylate (MMA) monomer produced through chemical recycling. LG Display Co., Ltd. of South Korea and Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. of Japan have decided…

Lummus and Resynergi announce commercial availability of microwave-Powered plastic-pyrolysis technology

Lummus Technology (Houston), and Resynergi (Rohnert Park, Calif.)  announced the commercialization of Resynergi's Continuous Microwave Assisted Pyrolysis (CMAP) Modules. Lummus and Resynergi established this partnership in 2024 and have made rapid progress in developing and commercializing the CMAP technology, which…

Baker Hughes and Woodside Energy to jointly develop small-scale decarbonization solutions based on Net Power platform

Baker Hughes, Inc. (Houston) and Woodside Energy, a leading Australian energy company, announced a joint initiative to develop a lower-carbon power-generation technology solution utilizing the Net Power, LLC (Durham, N.C.) platform that is specifically designed for oil and gas (including…

Chiyoda awarded EPC contract for ENEOS’ methylcyclohexane electrosynthesis demonstration plant

Chiyoda Corp. (Yokohama, Japan) has been awarded an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract by ENEOS Corp. (Tokyo) for a large-scale direct methylcyclohexane electrosynthesis (Direct MCH) demonstration plant. This demonstration was conducted as part of Green Innovation Fund Projects of…

Evonik and Pingmei Shenma sign hydrogen peroxide licensing agreement in China

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) will license its hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) production technology to China Pingmei Shenma Group Nylon Technology (Shenma) to build an H2O2 megaplant with an annual capacity of 200 kilotons in Pingdingshan, Henan Province. The H2O2 produced…