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Sasol Chemicals to provide complimentary catalysts for Interatec’s synthetic-fuels plant in Frankfurt

Sasol Chemicals will deliver a first fill of its latest Fischer-Tropsch (FT) catalyst free of charge to Ineratec, in one of several recent commitments to promising renewable projects. The FT catalyst will be used in the lighthouse project the Karlsruhe-based…

Saint-Gobain acquires Asphaltica shingle-recycling technology

Saint-Gobain North America, through its building products subsidiary CertainTeed Roofing, has acquired the rights to technology from recycling partner Asphaltica that will allow the company to recycle asphalt shingle waste, diverting it from landfill and furthering the company’s commitment to…

NatureWorks announces construction milestone for new biopolymer plant in Thailand

NatureWorks LLC (Minnetonka, Minn.) hosted a cornerstone laying ceremony to celebrate construction of their new Ingeo PLA manufacturing complex in Thailand. The ceremony commemorated the progress made to date on the new fully integrated biopolymer facility. The day also featured…

NextChem awarded feasibility study to decarbonize waste-to-energy plant in Italy

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announces that its subsidiary NextChem has been awarded a Feasibility Study by Foresight Group for a carbon capture and sustainable methanol synthesis plant in the ETA Manfredonia waste-to-energy plant in Puglia, a Southeastern Italian region. Upon completion of the Feasibility Study, the successful…

UPM and Haertol to develop new sustainable coolants

UPM Biochemicals and HAERTOL Chemie GmbH announced a development partnership that will accelerate the introduction of renewable, sustainable forest-sourced materials into the automotive market and reduce fossil resource consumption. UPM Biochemicals and HAERTOL, both headquartered in Germany, have agreed to…

Consortium to begin Japan’s first commercial-scale production of cellulosic bioethanol from woody biomass

Nippon Paper Industries Co., (Tokyo), Sumitomo Corp. (Tokyo) and Green Earth Institute Co. (Tokyo) agreed to begin trilateral consideration of the first commercial production of cellulosic bioethanol from woody biomass in Japan and its development into bio-chemical products. Bioethanol is…

Toray and Idemitsu Kosan to develop supply chain for biomass-based plastics

Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) and Idemitsu Kosan Co. (Tokyo) announced that they have agreed to build a supply chain for plastics made from biomass naphtha. They would manufacture biomass styrene monomer derived from biomass naphtha and acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS)…

RWE, Lotte Chemical and Mitsubishi join forces to develop clean-ammonia supply chains

RWE , Lotte Chemical Corp. and Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) have formed a strategic alliance to jointly develop stable and large-scale clean ammonia (green and blue ammonia) supply chains in Asia, Europe and the US. Within this alliance RWE, Lotte, and…

Chevron Phillips and Nexus Circular sign agreement for supply of advanced recycling feeds

Nexus Circular LLC (Atlanta, Ga.) announced that the company has signed a long-term commercial agreement with Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LLC (CPChem; The Woodlands, Tex.) for the supply of a significant volume annually of circular liquid feedstocks from a new…

Nel Hydrogen to supply electrolyzers for HyCC in Delfzijl

Nel Hydrogen Electrolyser AS, a subsidiary of Nel ASA, has signed a contract for 40 MW of alkaline electrolyzer equipment for about EUR 12 million with HyCC for its H2eron project in Delfzijl, Netherlands. Kraftanlagen Energies & Services has been…