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Chemours and Honeywell collaborating on pilot program to recycle and reclaim refrigerants

The Chemours Co. (Wilmington, Del.) and Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced the launch of a new pilot program to enable qualified companies to recycle and reclaim R-448A, also known as Honeywell Solstice N40, and R-449A, also known as Opteon…

Sulzer helps build world-scale renewable-fuels plant in Malaysia

Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) will support Vandelay Ventures Sdn Bhd in the construction of a world-scale production facility for sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) and renewable diesel. Thanks to this partnership, Sabah Maju Jaya Renewable Energy Industrial Complex (SMJREIC) in…

Air Products and Mabanaft to build Germany’s first large-scale green-hydrogen import terminal

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) and Mabanaft, through its subsidiary Oiltanking Deutschland, announced their intention to build Germany's first large-scale, green energy import terminal in the Port of Hamburg. This joint development agreement is an important step towards the development…

Cepsa announces bio-based chemicals capacity expansion at JV in Indonesia

Sinarmas Cepsa Pte Ltd (SCPL) and its parent companies, the chemicals business of Cepsa  (Madrid, Spain) and agribusiness Golden Agri-Resources (GAR), signed a Memorandum of Understanding to expand the production of bio-based chemicals at SCPL’s site in Lubuk Gaung, Indonesia.…

Pertamina, Keppel Infrastructure and Chevron exploring green hydrogen and ammonia projects in Indonesia

Pertamina Power Indonesia (Pertamina NRE), Keppel Infrastructure, through Keppel New Energy Pte. Ltd., and Chevron Corp., through Chevron New Energies International Pte. Ltd. (Chevron New Energies), have signed a Joint Study Agreement (JSA) to explore the development of selected green…

Wood wins FEED contract for Gen2 Energy’s green hydrogen project in Norway

Wood plc (Aberdeen, U.K.) has been awarded the front-end engineering design (FEED) scope for Gen2 Energy’s green hydrogen production facility, located in Mosjøen in northern Norway. Gen2 Energy is a Norwegian company dedicated to developing, building, owning and operating an…

Técnicas Reunidas and Allied Methanol to develop an integrated methanol and ammonia plant in Australia

Técnicas Reunidas S.A. (TR; Madrid, Spain) and Allied Methanol Pty. Ltd. have signed an agreement to develop an integrated methanol and blue ammonia production plant in Darwin, in the Northern Territory, Australia.  The plant configuration will enable carbon emissions to…

Asahi Kasei starts construction of alkaline electrolysis pilot plant for hydrogen production

Asahi Kasei (Tokyo) has started the construction of an alkaline water electrolysis pilot test plant for hydrogen production at its Kawasaki Works. Construction and operation of the plant is supported by the “Green Innovation Fund1” of Japan’s New Energy and…

KBR to help reduce emissions at Deepak Fertilizers and Petrochemicals sites

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a contract by Deepak Fertilizers and Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd. (DFPCL) to help three DFPCL plants achieve lower emissions and simultaneously increase production capacity. “We have a long-standing relationship with DFPCL and…

Solvay partnering with Ostium to enable recycling of single-use surgical instruments

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) has teamed up with French startup Ostium in a joint project designed to enable the mechanical recycling of end-of-life single-use surgical instruments molded in glass-fiber reinforced Ixef polyarylamide (PARA) from Solvay’s portfolio of specialty polymers. The initiative is the first for valuable…