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.

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.

Coperion is supplying an extrusion system to Ghent University in Belgium for comprehensive research and development tasks in chemical recycling of mixed plastic waste. The company designed this laboratory system, built upon a ZSK 18 Megalab twin screw extruder, especially for chemical recycling of post-consumer waste within a throughput range of 1-10 kg per hour.

With an aim to accelerate its electrolysis business, Haldor Topsoe has established a new organization which will focus exclusively on green hydrogen. Chokri Mousaoui has been appointed as Executive Vice President and head of the organization.

The core discussion at the Water Action Platform webinar which was held on May 20, 2021 was around green hydrogen and how can the water industry use the clean energy. The webinar was hosted by Isle chairman Piers Clark and featured Dr. Jenifer Baxter, director for innovation and policy at Protium Green Solutions as well as showcased emerging hydrogen technologies from the UK and Australia.

Air Liquide Engineering & Construction will provide Cryocap FG, a unique solvent free technology solution to Zeeland Refinery in order to capture more than 90 % of emissions at its Vlissingen site in the Netherlands.

BASF and RWE have signed a letter of intent which focuses on a climate-neutral chemical industry and CO2-free hydrogen. Together, they have come up with a project idea which includes the construction of an offshore wind farm with a capacity of 2 GW to produce green electricity and supply it to BASF’s Ludwigshafen chemical site in Germany for hydrogen production.

With an aim to contribute to sustainable fertilizer production and under an agreement signed between Stamicarbon and Shchekinoazot, both the companies will jointly explore, develop and incorporate green technologies at Shchekinoazot’s existing and new enterprises in Russia.

Siemens Energy, along with DEWA and Expo 2020 Dubai, has unveiled the first industrial scale, green hydrogen facility in the Middle East and North Africa. Established at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in Dubai, the pilot plant will produce around 20.5kg/hr of hydrogen at 1.25MWe of peak power.

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.