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.

Sascha Kleiber from the University of Technology in Austria demonstrated a carbon capture and utilization approach in which magnesium oxide-based catalysts were produced. These catalysts can be used as a marine fuel, electricity and even as feedstock for further chemicals.

Total Energies and Novatek have signed a MOU for reducing CO₂ emission resulting from the production of LNG. The companies will also work together to develop large-scale carbon capture and storage solutions and explore new opportunities for developing decarbonized hydrogen and ammonia.

The groundbreaking ceremony of Ørsted's first renewable hydrogen project – H2RES was spearheaded by Dan Jørgensen, the Danish minister for Climate, Energy & Utilities. The project is expected to produce up to around 1,000 kg of renewable hydrogen per day which will be used to fuel zero-emission road transport in the Greater Copenhagen area and in Zealand.

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.

Specialists from the nova-Institute were able to recognize 25 applications or plastic products for which biodegradability is a viable or the best end-of-life option. All the details have been shared in the report titled ‘Biosinn – Products for which biodegradation makes sense’.

NGK Insulators has recently announced the ‘NGK Group Environmental Vision for 2050’ along with its Fifth Five-Year Environmental Action Plan, which commences from FY2021. The Action Plan includes initiatives toward carbon neutrality, a recycling-oriented society, and harmony with nature, in line with the Environmental Vision.

A study by Cowi and the nova-Institute has been completed for the European Commission. Supported by the University of Utrecht, the study aims at exploring the role and potential of renewable carbon in the economy towards mitigating climate change.

Neste, Mitsui Chemicals and Toyota Tsusho have collaborated to start first production of renewable plastics from 100 % bio-based hydrocarbons in Japan. Mitsui Chemicals will use 100 % bio-based hydrocarbons produced by Neste to replace a part of the fossil feedstock at its crackers within Osaka Works in Japan.

Maire Tecnimont’s subsidiary Nextchem has secured a FEED contract by Total Energies for a Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) plant in Grandpuits, France. With an expected capacity of 400,000 tons per year of SAF, the facility is part of Total Energies’ plan to convert its Grandpuits Refinery into a zero-crude platform.