Calpine has awarded a Feed contract to Technip Energies, Shell Catalysts & Technologies and Zachry Group for its new carbon capture project in Texas, USA. The project is expected to capture two million tons of CO2 annually.

Kuraray has completed the development of a new plant for isoprene-related businesses in Thailand and the unit is expected to commence operations soon. Kuraray GC Advanced Materials Co. and Kuraray Advanced Chemicals (Thailand) Co. were responsible for the construction of the project.

KBR’s technology has been selected for Enaex’s Hyex green ammonia project in Chile. The project is expected to produce green ammonia by making use of renewable energy from photovoltaic power plants.

Evonik has plans to expand its production capacity of Metamino (DL-methionine) on Jurong Island, Singapore, by 40,000 metric tons to around 340,000 metric tons annually. For this, the project will require technological development which will help in process optimization, thus, improving the carbon footprint of Metamino produced in Singapore by six percent.

Ineos Olefins Belgium has plans to develop the most sustainable cracker project in Europe – Project One. Expected to have the lowest carbon footprint of all European crackers, the project will be located in Antwerp, Belgium.

Plug Power has launched its new fuel cell manufacturing facility in New York, USA. The company broke ground in March of 2022 and began manufacturing at commercial scale after just nine months.

Lanxess has plans to source sustainable raw materials from Covestro, which have a significantly reduced carbon footprint, to produce key basic chemicals at its Lower Rhine sites in Germany. The partnership will result in reducing CO2 emissions by up to 120,000 tons per year at the site.

A collaboration between the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (Oist) and the Polytechnic University of Milan has found that when a fluid is pumped through a pipe in an intermittent way, the cost of transport is significantly reduced.

Maire Tecnimont’s subsidiary Nextchem has entered into an agreement with Biorenova to acquire, scale up and industrialize the proprietary Catc technology which is a continuous chemical recycling process to recover ultra-high purity monomers from sorted plastic waste especially polymethylmethacrylate.

Fuel cell technology projects can rely on Fluid Components International's ST80 thermal mass flow meters with Vortab (VIP) flow conditioners to accurately measure gas flow to generate clean electricity while reducing or eliminating environmentally harmful emissions such as carbon, NOX and SOX, according to the company.