Under an agreement signed between both the parties, Total Energies will supply up to 1.5 million tons of additional SAF to Air France-KLM Group airlines over a 10-year period until 2035. In 2022, Total Energies had agreed to supply 800,000 tons of SAF to the airline.

The Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has inaugurated the 24 MW renewable hydrogen plant at the Herøya Industrial Park in Norway. Claimed to be the largest of its kind currently in operation in Europe, the plant is a major milestone for the firm.

Under a contract signed between Repsol and Volotea, Repsol will supply up to 6.1 million litres of sustainable aviation fuel from 2025 to 2029 to all the flights operated by the Volotea airline from airports in Spain.

Trillium Renewable Chemicals has chosen Ineos Nitriles’ Green Lake facility in Port Lavaca, Texas to develop the world’s first demonstration plant for converting plant-based glycerol into acrylonitrile. Named ‘Project Falcon’, the project is expected to commence operations in early 2025.

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.

Evonik’s triple-digit million-euro facility is the first unit worldwide to manufacture industrial-scale quantities of rhamnolipid biosurfactants. These biosurfactants are already transforming the cleaning, beauty and personal care industries and have huge potential in many other applications.

Under a strategic collaboration agreement signed between both the parties, ABB and Komatsu will work towards the development of integrated solutions that will help bring net zero emissions for heavy industrial machinery.

The new report published by the Nova Institute highlights that it is crucial to replace fossil-based naphtha with alternative naphtha in refineries and crackers with an aim to defossilize the chemical industry.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of May 2024’ from all over the world. Right from Carbios holding a groundbreaking ceremony for the world's first pet biorecycling plant to the world’s largest direct air capture plant commencing operations in Iceland, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Suez and Hte have entered into a R&D service agreement through which both the firms will focus on the screening of various catalytic materials to convert biomass-derived feedstocks into sustainable gases.