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Cepsa and C2X set up joint project to develop the largest green methanol plant in Europe

Cepsa  (Madrid, Spain) and C2X, an independent company majority owned by A.P. Moller Holding with A.P. Moller – Maersk as minority owner, announce a joint ambition to develop a green methanol plant in the port of Huelva, southern Spain. Green…

Asahi Kasei invests in Canadian manufacturer of anion exchange membranes

Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo) has made an investment in Ionomr Innovations Inc., a Canadian startup that manufactures anion exchange membrane (AEM). Ionomr’s high-performance, durable, next-generation membrane has the potential to be transformative for the cost-efficient and scalable production of green…

Trinseo inaugurates new PMMA depolymerization plant in Italy

Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.) announced the inauguration of its next generation, polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) depolymerization plant in Rho, Italy. Scheduled to be commissioned in Q1 2024, this demonstration facility marks a pivotal step towards reshaping the plastics ecosystem as part of…

Fluor awarded contracts for Dow’s net-zero ethylene cracker project in Canada

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced that it was awarded two contracts from Dow (Midland, Mich.) for the construction of the world’s first net-zero scope 1 and 2 emissions integrated ethylene cracker and derivatives complex in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada. The…

Nextchem awarded process-design contract for waste-to-SAF project Louisiana

 Nextchem (Maire's Sustainable Technology Solutions business unit), through its subsidiary MyRechemical, leading the Waste-to-Chemical segment, has been selected by DG Fuels Lousiana to provide the Process Design Package in relation to a Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) facility under development in…

Clariant shuts sunliquid bioethanol plant in Romania

Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com), a sustainability-focused specialty chemical company, today announced its decision to shut down its sunliquid® bioethanol production in Podari, Romania, and to downsize related activities of the business line Biofuels & Derivatives in Germany (Straubing, Planegg…

SK Innovation demonstrates electrochemical conversion of CO2 to CO

SK Innovation (Seoul, South Korea) has successfully converted carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide using electrochemical catalytic reactions. The carbon monoxide produced by this method is expected to contribute to the production of various chemical products as a basic material, as…

Huntsman and Zeta Energy demonstrate advanced lithium-sulfur battery technology

Zeta Energy (Houston) and Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.) announced that they have demonstrated an advanced lithium-sulfur battery that requires no copper or aluminum as current collectors, thus enabling further enhancement in energy and power density. This is an important…

Covestro to modernize TDI plant in Dormagen

To further strengthen the sustainability and competitiveness of TDI (toluene diisocyanate) production for the manufacture of flexible foams in Europe, Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) is investing a mid to high double-digit million euro amount in the modernization of its production…

Umicore announces groundbreaking for large-scale fuel-cell catalyst plant in China

Umicore N.V. (Brussels, Belgium) held the groundbreaking ceremony in Changshu, Suzhou for its large-scale fuel cell catalyst plant. With the increasing popularity of green hydrogen, the demand for fuel cell catalyst products is growing rapidly. Over the past 30 years,…