The collaboration aims to focus on smelting units and direct reduction plants for the production of carbon-neutral steel. For this purpose, two electrically operated smelters are being built to process 2.5 million metric tons of directly reduced iron into hot metal annually.

Sulzer has recently inaugurated a new biopolymer engineering and scale-up center in Winterthur Töss, Switzerland. This new center marks the company’s fourth location in the country.

Air Liquide has plans to develop two large-scale electrolyzer projects which will produce renewable and low-carbon hydrogen in Europe. The first project comprises of an Air Liquide 200 MW electrolyzer and the second project involves the development of a 250 MW electrolyzer.

Australia could meet a significant portion of Europe's hydrogen demand in the future — provided that the supply chain via the port of Rotterdam works. An international study involving Fraunhofer ISE is now investigating the technical and economic conditions for large-scale supply of green ammonia from Western Australia.

Under a MOU signed between ABB and Charbone Hydrogen, both the companies will work together to develop up to 15 modular and scalable green hydrogen production facilities across North America over the next five years.

Aequita has entered into an agreement and exclusive negotiations with Lyondell Basell under which it intends to acquire four of Lyondell Basell’s olefins & polyolefins assets in Europe.

Akzo Nobel is partnering with BASF to reduce the carbon footprint of its high-volume decorative paints in EMEA. By using BASF’s certified biomass balanced ingredients, the company aims to lower CO2 emissions by at least 5 % without altering product quality or manufacturing processes

Solvay’s Linne Herten plant in the Netherlands has chosen BASF as the primary supplier of aluminum chloride. The sourcing of aluminum chloride from India to BASF in Germany is expected to reduce the carbon footprint associated with this raw material by over 50 %.

Cargill Incorporated’s 17-acre specialty chemical manufacturing facility in Dalton, Georgia, USA has now been acquired by the Aditya Birla Group. With this, the Group aims to expand its U.S. Advanced Materials business.

241 Auma electric actuators have been installed as part of a retrofit at Stockholm’s largest combined heat and power plant, Kraftvärmeverk 1. The modern actuators with Profinet communications now ensure the smooth generation of electricity and heat from renewable fuels.