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Braskem America receives ISCC Plus certification for all U.S. polypropylene sites

Braskem S.A. (São Paulo, Brazil) announced that Braskem America has received International Sustainability & Carbon PLUS (ISCC PLUS) certification for all five of its polypropylene (PP) manufacturing facilities in the United States. Mark Nikolich, Chief Executive Officer of Braskem America,…

Topsoe and Steeper Energy to introduce new waste-to-biofuel technology platform

Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) and Steeper Energy, a pioneer within biomass conversion technologies, have today signed a global licensing agreement for a complete waste-to-fuel solution. The agreement combines Topsoe’s unique technologies in renewable fuels and hydrogen production as well as…

Phillips 66’s Sweeny Refinery awarded certification to process waste oils into plastic feedstock

Phillips 66 Co. (Houston) announced it has received International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS certification for its Sweeny Refinery in Texas to process oil made from waste plastics into feedstocks for new plastics. “Phillips 66 is committed to keeping…

Orion Engineered Carbons announces $60-million emissions-reduction project

Orion Engineered Carbons (Houston) will sharply reduce air emissions at its Borger, Texas, plant with new control technology. The $60 million project also involved upgrading the site’s cogeneration system, which takes heat created by the carbon black production process and…

Citroniq Chemicals signs renewable-polypropylene supply agreement with Mitsui Plastiscs

Citroniq Chemicals LLC (Houston), a world-scale producer of carbon-negative materials, and Mitsui Plastics, Inc (MPI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc., announced the execution of a letter of intent for a large-scale supply agreement for sustainable…

Cepsa, partners to develop 200-MW electrolysis plant at Andalusian Green Hydrogen Valley

Cepsa  (Madrid, Spain), Enagás Renovable, one of the largest European developers of renewable gas projects, and Alter Enersun, a company dedicated to the promotion of renewable energy generation facilities, have signed an agreement to jointly develop a green hydrogen plant…

Avantium to supply Henkel with plant-based FDCA

Avantium N.V. (Amsterdam. The Netherlands) and Henkel signed an offtake agreement for five years, under which Avantium will supply Henkel with FDCA (furandicarboxylic acid) produced in Avantium’s FDCA Flagship Plant, currently under construction in Delfzijl, the Netherlands. Avantium expects to…

Evonik launches research project for plasma-enabled CO2 conversion

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) has launched the PlasCO2 project together with three partners. The aim is to use carbon dioxide (CO2) as a raw material in the production of C4 chemicals. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is…

Aker Carbon Capture inaugurates world’s first carbon-capture pilot for smelters

Aker Carbon Capture AS (Lysaker, Norway) has announced that the world's first carbon capture pilot for smelters has been officially inaugurated. The Mobile Test Unit (MTU), delivered by Aker Carbon Capture, is now connected to Elkem ASA’s (Oslo, Norway) plant…

Air Liquide and Sasol sign power purchase agreements with Enel Green Power

Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) and Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa) have signed two Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) with Enel Green Power (Rome, Italy) for the long-term supply of a total capacity of 220 MW of renewable power to Sasol’s Secunda…