Bilfinger has entered into a three-year partnership with a customer from the pharmaceutical industry. Under the terms of the deal, Bilfinger will optimize the asset management, including maintenance and modifications for production equipment which process human plasma for the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals.

Under the Circular Plastics Fund, Dow, Lyondell Basell, and Nova Chemicals have teamed up to accelerate investment in plastics recycling infrastructure. The Fund invites businesses across the plastics value chain to join in advancing the recovery and recycling of plastics in the U.S. and Canada.

Seaboard Energy will make use of Haldor Topsoe’s Hydroflex renewable fuel technology for its 6,500 barrels-per-day renewable diesel unit which is located at its renewable fuels complex in Hugoton, Kansas, US. The company intends to produce renewable diesel from tallow and soybean oil.

As part of the mega ‘SeaH2Land’ project, Ørsted is developing a 1 GW renewable hydrogen production facility by 2030. The project is expected to assist the Netherlands and Belgium reduce their carbon emissions in the near future.

The pharma company Merck & Co. and France’s Total have signed a major renewable corporate power purchase agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, 90 GWh of clean energy will be produced annually by Total’s 45 MW solar power project located in Spain.

Seven Fraunhofer Institutes are working together for the lighthouse project ‘Waste4Future’ wherein they intend to develop new solutions for plastics recycling. With this project, the institutes want to establish a chemical industry that requires less fossil raw materials and produces less emissions.

Researchers have recently developed a world-first concept for rechargeable cement-based batteries. With an average energy density of 7 Watthours per square metre, the cement-based battery can also be used in buildings for energy storage.

Leybold is taking a big step toward the digitalization of its product line and has an innovative online sound check for vacuum pumps on its website. With this free tool, users receive immediate feedback regarding the condition of their vacuum pumps.

Under a MOU signed between Vianode and Morrow Batteries, Vianode will supply anode materials to Morrow Batteries’ lithium-ion battery cell unit in Arendal, Norway. With this move, the companies aim to exploit the synergies of their innovative production process and product design, to improve the performance and safety of battery cells.

The newly formed ‘Five T Hydrogen Fund’ is a private infrastructure fund which will be used for developing clean hydrogen infrastructure projects at scale. The fund aims to raise a total of 1 billion dollars from financial and industrial investors.