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Elkem expands upcycling technology for silicone waste

Elkem ASA (Oslo, Norway) announced the successful scaling of its chemical silicone waste upcycling project from a laboratory to pilot unit at its Saint-Fons production site in Lyon, France. This marks a significant milestone in driving the transition to a…

Celanese and Henkel join forces to commercialize adhesives made from captured CO2 emissions

Henkel AG (Düsseldorf, Germany) and Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.) have announced a partnership to enhance circularity in emulsion production by utilizing carbon capture-based materials. Earlier this year, Celanese launched a carbon capture and utilization (CCU) project at its Clear Lake,…

Bechtel and Rio Tinto collaborating on solar-power facility for one of the world’s largest open-pit copper mines

Bechtel (Reston, Va.) has announced its selection by Rio Tinto to lead the design and construction of Copperton Phase 2 Solar, a significant renewable energy facility that will support operations at Rio Tinto’s Kennecott mine in Utah, one of the…

Tree Energy Solutions and SOCAR exploring e-fuels project in Azerbaijan

Green energy company Tree Energy Solutions (TES; Zaventem, Belgium ) and SOCAR, Azerbaijan's national oil company, have signed a Joint Study Agreement (JSA) to explore the development of an electric natural gas (e-NG) project in Azerbaijan. This agreement will enable…

Abraxas Power and EDF Group to jointly develop green hydrogen project in Newfoundland

Abraxas Power Corp. (Toronto, Ont., Canada) and EDF Group (Paris, France), a key player in the energy transition and a world leader in low-carbon energy, are pleased to announce they have entered into strategic development agreements to jointly develop the…

Avantium and SCG Chemicals sign agreement to pilot polylactic-co-glycolic acid production

Avantium N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.avantium.com)  a leading company in renewable and circular polymer materials, announces the strengthening of its partnership with SCG Chemicals Public Company Limited (Bangkok, Thailand; www.scgchemicals.com) a leading chemical player in Asia and an innovator of…

Rio Tinto to supply iron ore pellets to steel decarbonization project in France

Rio Tinto (London, U.K.; www.riotinto.com) has entered into definitive agreements with GravitHy (Marseille, France; www.gravithy.eu), an early-stage industrial company, to help accelerate GravitHy’s steel decarbonization project in France. As part of this collaboration, Rio Tinto will supply high-grade direct reduction…

Uniper selects Electric Hydrogen technology for northern Germany project

  Uniper (Düsseldorf, Germany; uniper.energy) has selected Electric Hydrogen (Natick, Mass.; www.eh2.com) as its exclusive partner to design a 200 Megawatt (MW) electrolyzer plant for the large-scale electrolysis within Uniper’s Green Wilhelmshaven project in Northern Germany. Electric Hydrogen began conducting…

Asahi Kasei breaks ground on lithium-ion battery separator facility in Ontario, Canada

Asahi Kasei Battery Separator Corporation marked a significant step in its commitment to supporting the North American electric vehicle (EV) market by breaking ground on its new lithium-ion battery separator manufacturing facility in Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada. The plant is expected…

Neste will supply renewable feedstock for chemicals and plastics to Singapore producer

Neste (Espoo, Finland; www.neste.com) and Singapore-based essential chemicals company PCS Pte. Ltd. (www.pcs.com.sg) have launched a cooperation for the supply of renewable solutions to Southeast Asia’s chemicals industry. The collaboration aims at introducing renewable raw materials to replace fossil ones…