Under a MOU signed between Haldor Topsoe and Hyundai Oilbank, the two companies will work together to explore opportunities within blue and green hydrogen, waste plastic recycling, bio-refinery, eFuels, CCUS (carbon capture, utilization and storage) and other solutions to reduce carbon emissions.

Haskel’s Hydrogen Systems has entered into a long-term agreement with Hiringa to supply hydrogen refuelling stations across New Zealand for the heavy transport industry. The first four high-capacity refuelling stations have already been ordered for phase one of the nationwide green hydrogen network.

Asahi Kasei will make use of Shell’s sustainable butadiene derived from plastic waste and biomass to produce solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber (S-SBR) at its Singapore plant. Shell will produce the green butadiene by a mass balance method in two ways including a method of converting plastic waste into pyrolysis oil and feeding it to the naphtha cracker, and the other is using bio-feedstock as a naphtha cracker feed.

With the completion of the demonstration of the world’s highest-current water electrolyzer, Hydrogen Optimized has advanced its large-scale green hydrogen technology – the Ruggedcell unipolar electrolyzer. The 22-million-dollar Ruggedcell high-current electrolyzer development program was launched by Hydrogen Optimized with an aim to develop the world’s largest green hydrogen production systems.

Haldor Topsoe and Green Fuel have signed a MOU under which both the companies will jointly work together to identify efficient and scalable technologies for green ammonia production in Iceland. Green Fuel has also secured a Letter of Intent to operate at the Bakki Eco-Industrial Park in north-east Iceland.

From May 14 to 18, 2018, the world's leading trade fair for water, sewage, waste and raw materials management, Ifat, will take place in Munich. The exhibitors and an extensive framework programme will provide information about new developments for an optimized water supply and the treatment of wastewater and liquid waste.

BASF is all set to create its new subsidiary for renewable energy activities next year. The new business aims at supplying BASF’s sites in Europe with electricity from renewable energies and will also act as a global consulting firm for its Group companies in the field of renewable energies.

Alfa Laval’s new CM Connect is a subscription-based condition monitor and cloud gateway which enables plant operators to access data of rotating equipment on processing lines from a remote location. The solution proves useful for the hygienic processing industries.

The Idcyclib project (Innovation platform of a green, detectable and directly recyclable lithium-ion battery) is the joint project of 12 partners from industry and research who have partnered together to make a sustainable and industry-ready concept for battery cell production, recycling and reprocessing transferable.

The leading trade fair for the process industry is scheduled to take place from August 22 to 26, 2022, at the Frankfurt exhibition center. Originally, Achema was scheduled from April 4 to 8, 2022. Given the increasing uncertainty caused by the new Corona variant, those responsible — after intensive discussion with the community and the Achema Committee — have decided to do so.