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Ascend Elements opens North America’s largest LIB-recycling facility

Ascend Elements (Westborough, Mass.) announced the opening its first commercial-scale lithium-ion battery (LIB) recycling facility this week. Located in Covington, Georgia, the $50 million Base 1 facility is North America’s largest electric vehicle-battery-recycling facility. As demand for electric vehicles increases,…

Thyssenkrupp Uhde and IDIP to collaborate on modularized green-ammonia plants

Thyssenkrupp Uhde (Essen, Germany) and IDESA Industrial Plants SLU (IDIP) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to cooperate on developing and fabricating modules for green ammonia projects. The MoU was signed in Essen, Germany on March 23, 2023. The…

Nacero transitions to SAF production at planned Texas plant

Nacero (Houston) will transition its current pre-construction, multi-billion USD facility in Texas, designed to produce low carbon gasoline to the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and lower carbon aviation fuel (LCAF).  When fully completed, Nacero's facility in Texas will…

Linde signs agreement with ExxonMobil for carbon dioxide offtake

Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced that it has signed a long-term agreement with ExxonMobil Corp. (Houston) for the offtake of carbon dioxide associated with Linde’s new clean hydrogen production in Beaumont, Texas. Linde previously announced that it will build, own…

Total Corbion, Posco and ESOL to develop PLA recycling infrastructure in South Korea

TotalEnergies Corbion (Gorinchem, the Netherlands), POSCO International and ESOL announced a partnership aimed at developing the PLA recycling infrastructure and technology in South Korea. Over the coming years, the partnership will contribute to the Korean Government framework for Carbon Neutrality.…

Biotrend Energy to build commercial-scale advanced plastics-recycling facility using Honeywell Upcycle technology

Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that Biotrend Energy (Istanbul) signed equipment supply, production license, and warranty agreements to build Türkiye’s first commercialized advanced waste recycling plant using Honeywell UOP UpCycle Process Technology. The facility will convert mixed waste plastics into…

Neste progresses scaleup of waste-plastic processing with second series of runs at Porvoo refinery

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has successfully concluded its second series of industrial-scale processing runs with liquefied waste plastic at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland. The goal of the processing runs is to further increase the company’s understanding of how different…

Honeywell to supply automation technologies for SGP’s biorefinery in Panama

Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that SGP BioEnergy will implement Honeywell’s Experion System Technology at its Golden City Biorefinery in Colón, Panama.  As one of SGP’s key automation contractors, Honeywell will deploy its Experion technology solutions for the plant’s distributed…

Yara Clean Ammonia and Enbridge to construct blue ammonia plant in Texas

Yara Clean Ammonia (YCA; Oslo, Norway), a Yara International ASA company, and Enbridge Inc. (Houston) signed a letter of intent to jointly develop and construct a world scale low-carbon blue ammonia production facility as equal partners. The proposed facility, which…

Ampol and ENEOS exploring biofuels production at Brisbane refinery

Ampol Ltd. (New South Wales, Australia) and ENEOS Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore the production of advanced biofuels at the Lytton refinery in Brisbane, Australia. The parties have also executed…