Air Liquide and Sasol have entered into new power purchase agreements with Enel Green Power RSA. Under the terms of the agreement, Enel Green Power RSA will supply an additional capacity of 110 MW of renewable power to Sasol’s Secunda site in South Africa.

Acelen Renewables has selected Honeywell’s Ecofining technology for producing 20,000 barrels per day of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel from a blend of inedible seed and waste oils at its facility in Bahia, Brazil.

Japanese diversified global manufacturer Asahi Kasei has made an investment in Ionomr Innovations, a Canadian start-up that manufactures anion exchange membrane (AEM).

The Genentech biologics manufacturing site in the US will be acquired by Lonza from Roche for a whopping 1.2 billion dollars. With this move, Lonza aims to increase its large-scale biologics manufacturing capacity for mammalian therapies.

Asahi Kasei, Gentari and JGC will work together for a Feed study to develop a 60-MW class alkaline water electrolyzer system. The system is expected to produce up to 8,000 tonnes per year of green hydrogen in Malaysia.

Under the terms of the contract, Vattenfall has begun supplying Borealis’ operations in Stenungsund with a total of 175 GWh of renewable energy per year from its hydropower plants in Sweden.

Allied Green Ammonia has chosen Topsoe’s green ammonia technology for its ammonia plant in Gove, Australia. With a production capacity of 2,500 metric tons per day, the unit is expected to start producing green ammonia in 2028.

As the year 2023 is now passé and the New Year has begun with great vigor, we have listed below the ‘Top 10 Articles’ of PROCESS Worldwide in 2023. These write-ups have attracted the most views by our readers, we hope you enjoy reading all of them.

ADM and Marathon Petroleum Corp. have inaugurated their joint venture soybean processing complex, Green Bison Soy Processing, in North Dakota, USA. The project is expected to meet the growing demands for renewable green diesel in the region.

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.