Asahi Kasei has secured government support to expand its manufacturing capacity for cell frames and membranes of alkaline water electrolyzers for the production of green hydrogen at its plant site in Kawasaki, Japan.

Celanese has collaborated with Cloverdale Paint to produce sustainable paint solutions with the help of its carbon capture and utilization technology. This move is expected to promote a circular economy as well as reduce carbon emissions.

Gevo and LG Chem have decided to extend their joint development agreement under which LG Chem will assess its existing assets for deploying Gevo’s Ethanol-to-Olefins technology. With this move, the companies aim to accelerate its commercialization activities ahead of the original timeline.

BASF has introduced Ultramid Low PCF and Ultramid Zero PCF within its polyamide value chain in Europe. Ultramid Zero PCF is the first polyamide 6 in the industry to achieve a CO2 footprint of net zero while Ultramid Low PCF is produced using electricity from renewable energy sources and low-emission steam.

New Energy Risk (NER) has been chosen by Topsoe as its insurance partner for its SOEC (solid oxide electrolyzer cells) hydrogen electrolyzer products. With this, the company aims to de-risk the development of SOEC as well as the customers’ green hydrogen and Power-to-X projects.

Total Energies has sold 50 % of its shares in West Burton Energy, a company that owns a 1.3 GW gas fired power plant and a 49 MW battery storage system in the UK, to EPUKI. The plant will now be operated by the joint venture between Total Energies and EPUKI.

HIF Global has entered into a land reservation contract with the Port of Açu to develop an e-methanol project in Brazil with an aim to produce up to 800,000 tons per year of e-Methanol.

Woodland Biofuels has plans to invest a whopping amount of 1.35 billion-dollars to develop the world’s largest carbon negative renewable natural gas plant / ultra-green hydrogen facility in the USA.

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has decided to give a go-ahead to Toray to develop a gigawatt-class mass production system for electrolyte membranes used in water electrolyzer under its Green Transformation Supply Chain Development Support Program.

Kemira and IFF have recently announced the successful completion of a market-entry scale industrial polymer plant in Finland. The plant utilizes IFF’s Designed Enzymatic Biomaterial platform technology and is expected to produce unique renewable polymers.