The consortium led by Sonichem has secured funding from Innovate UK’s 'Resource efficiency for materials and manufacturing' programme. The funding will help the project to accelerate the development of the proprietary Sonichem ultrasound technology and the production of renewable, cost-effective alternatives to petrochemicals.

Novoloop has joined hands with Aether Industries to develop a pilot plant in India. The unit will demonstrate the scalability of Novoloop's Lifecycling technology which is capable of transforming post-consumer plastic waste into monomers for the synthesis of virgin-quality, high-performance materials.

BASF process catalysts has collaborated with Envision Energy to further optimize the process of producing e-methanol from green hydrogen and CO2 via an advanced, dynamic process design. The partners aim to demonstrate the viability of the advanced process design next year.

Albert Baehny, the current Chairman of Lonza has decided not to stand for re-election at the soon to be held AGM in May. In this scenario, the Board has proposed Jean-Marc Huët to become the new Chairman of the Board.

The Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI) published its latest report ‘Case Studies Based on Peer-reviewed Life Cycle Assessments – Carbon Footprints of Different Renewable Carbon-based Chemicals and Materials’. The report revealed that renewable carbon-based materials exhibited significant lower CO2 footprint than its fossil counterparts.

Plug Power has begun the production of liquid green hydrogen at its Georgia plant in the USA. The company claims that this is the largest electrolytic liquid hydrogen production plant and largest PEM electrolyzer deployment operating in the U.S.

Lanxess and IBU-tec have entered into a research cooperation to develop iron oxides for the production of cathode material for LFP batteries. With this move, the companies aim to optimize the electrochemical properties of LFP batteries.

KBR’s K-Green technology has been selected for Lotte Chemical's H2biscus Green Ammonia Project in Sarawak, Malaysia. The project is expected to produce 800 KTA of green ammonia from hydropower.

Michelin, Ifpen and Axens have recently inaugurated what it claims to be the first industrial-scale demonstrator of a plant producing bio-based butadiene from bioethanol. The demonstrator is built at Michelin’s site in Bassens near Bordeaux in France.

A pilot plant for cost-efficient production of green methanol was recently inaugurated at the chemical park in Leuna, Germany by the Minister for Transport Dr. Volker Wissing. The plant is part of the ‘Leuna100’ project and aims to offer climate-friendly fuels to container shipping and aviation industries.