6K has established its new Center of Excellence in North Andover, MA, USA for the development of sustainable battery materials used in electric vehicles. With the hefty investment, the company plans to expand its facility over the next two years.

Haldor Topsoe’s Tigas technology has been selected by Nacero for its Penwell facility in Houston, Texas, USA. With this technology, Nacero aims at reducing the lifecycle carbon footprint of its gasoline production.

The companies Evonik, Adare, Solvay, PPG, Icheme, Syngenta and Romaco have made new appointments to senior positions. PROCESS summarizes the latest management decisions for you.

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.

Chemours aims to achieve a 60 % absolute reduction of operations-related greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. To meet this objective, the company has also appointed Sheryl Telford as its Chief Sustainability Officer.

PKN Orlen has plans to expand the Olefins Complex at the Płock production unit in Poland. Once complete, the project is expected to be one of the most modern facilities in Europe. With this project, the company will join the group of the largest petrochemical producers in the world.

Sasol will be joining Linde, Enertrag and Navitas to explore the potential of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), an initiative supported by the German Government’s H2 Global auction platform. Together with its partners, Sasol plans to carry out feasibility studies regarding the production of SAF at its Secunda Synfuels plant in South Africa.

The ECB Group will use Honeywell UOP’s Ecofining process to produce renewable diesel and jet fuel at the Omega Green production facility in Villeta, Paraguay. The plant is the country’s first advanced biofuels project.

Under the joint initiative Hybrit, SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall have started the construction of a large-scale hydrogen storage facility located next to Hybrit’s pilot facility in Luleå, Sweden. The storage facility is expected to be operational by 2022.

The Sesotec metal separator Rapid Pro-Sense with the control unit Genius+ offers extremely high sensitivity due to its innovative HRF (High Resolution Frequency) technology. The detection signal is sent and evaluated at a special frequency.