Neste has made the final investment decision to commence construction of upgrading facilities for liquefied plastic waste at its Porvoo refinery in Finland. With the investment of €111 million, Neste will build the capacity to upgrade 150,000 tons of liquefied waste plastic per year. Upgrading is one of the three processing steps turning liquefied waste plastic into... [Read More]

px Group’s Saltend Chemicals Park in the UK has been selected as the site for a new green hydrogen facility. An investment of between £180 million (€209 million) and £240 million (€279 million) by Meld Energy, the green hydrogen industrial developer, has been made for the facility to be built in Hull. Meld Energy is an international hydrogen development company... [Read More]

Emerson is assisting the Swedish cleantech company HaloSep to optimise its unique process that turns hazardous incinerator flue gas residue from waste-to-energy plants into usable materials. The company’s control technology and software is being deployed at HaloSep’s plant for optimisation, research and technology (PORT) in Gothenburg, Sweden, to manage an innovative... [Read More]

Sinopec has sealed a deal with KazMunayGaz to kick-start a polyethylene project in the Atyrau region. The agreement with the national operator of the oil and gas industry of Kazakhstan will be the largest natural gas and chemical project in the region. Sinopec and KazMunayGaz have been long-term partners with a solid foundation of cooperation. The signing of the agreement... [Read More]

Dow and New Energy Blue announced a long-term supply agreement in North America in which New Energy Blue will create bio-based ethylene from renewable agricultural residues. This is for plastic materials made from corn residue, in a bid to move towards renewable energy sources for production. "We are unlocking the value of agriculture residues in this new partnership... [Read More]

Wood, the global consulting and engineering company, is supporting Teck Resources (Teck) in piloting a new carbon capture plant at its smelter in Trail, British Columbia. Now in the detail design phase, this first-of-its-kind solution for capturing carbon from sulfide ores in the smelting process, is paving the way for more sustainable operations in steel and mining... [Read More]

Lummus Technology and Texplore have agreed to license and market EXCENETM - Texplore’s high-density polyethylene (HDPE) technology. Under the agreement, Lummus will exclusively license Texplore’s EXCENE HDPE technology. Lummus will also provide engineering design for plant construction, services for plant commissioning and start-up, and additional life cycle services,... [Read More]

Gevo and LG Chem have entered into a joint development agreement to develop bio-propylene for renewable chemicals using Gevo’s Ethanol-to-Olefins (ETO) technology. Gevo’s proprietary ETO technology can target carbon neutral or carbon negative drop-in replacements for traditional petroleum-based building blocks called olefins, including bio-propylene that can be used... [Read More]

NOVA Chemicals Corporation and Enerkem are advancing their versatile and energy efficient chemical recycling technology to pilot stage in Edmonton, Alberta. The funding, provided through Alberta Innovates’ Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction Economic Recovery Program has enabled the companies to expedite construction of a pilot-scale reactor system that converts... [Read More]

NextChem has acquired a 51% stake in MyRemono, a newly established company to which Biorenova transferred patents, assets, including a demonstration plant and contracts related to CatC, an innovative plastic catalytic depolymerisation technology. CatC is a continuous chemical recycling process to recover monomers with ultra-high levels of purity from sorted plastic waste,... [Read More]

Technip Energies has been awarded a contract by Ningbo Juhua Chemical and Science for a 1.3-propanediol (PDO) plant with a capacity of producing 72,000 tpy as well as 150,000 tpy of polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT). The plant will be built in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. These two products are based on Technip Energies’ proprietary Zimmer® PDO and PTT technologies... [Read More]

Clariant has opened its new CATOFIN catalyst production site in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, China. Investing in innovations such as CATOFIN is a core element of Clariant’s new purpose-led strategy. The site also serves to increase the already expanding footprint in China, adding on to the existing nearby catalyst plants in Jinshan and catalyst R&D centre within the... [Read More]

Toymaker LEGO said it has agreed to buy e-methanol, a lower-carbon alternative to conventional plastic ingredients, for use in its plastic bricks when the world's first large-scale plant starts operations next year. Privately owned renewable energy firm European Energy, which is developing the plant in Aabenraa, Denmark, said Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk will also buy... [Read More]

Aramco has signed definitive agreements to acquire a 10% interest in Shenzhen-listed Rongsheng Petrochemical for $3.6 billion (€3.2 billion) in a deal that will expand its downstream presence in China. Through the strategic arrangement, Aramco will supply 480,000 bpd of Arabian crude oil to Rongsheng affiliate Zhejiang Petroleum and Chemical (ZPC), under a long-term... [Read More]

Neste has successfully concluded its second series of industrial-scale processing runs with liquefied waste plastic at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland. The goal of the processing runs is to further increase the company’s understanding of how different types of waste plastics behave during chemical recycling in the refinery processes. The end product gained in the runs... [Read More]

Sulzer Chemtech has completed the start-up of the world’s largest facility for styrene extraction from pyrolysis gasoline (pygas) derived from naphtha cracking. Located in Zhejiang Petroleum & Chemical Co’s (ZPC) integrated refining and petrochemical complex in Zhoushan, China, the unit uses Sulzer Chemtech’s proprietary GT-Styrene® licensed technology to produce... [Read More]