Andritz has been chosen by Koppö Energia to carry out a front-end engineering design for its mega green hydrogen facility in Kristinestad, Finland. The new plant is expected to have a capacity of 200 MW on completion.

Kraton Corporation has plans to produce up to 100 % ISCC Plus certified renewable Styrenic Block Copolymers at its Berre site in France. The move is part of its Cirkular+ Renew Series and will help the firm to further reduce the carbon footprint of its fossil-based products made at the site by up to 85%.

Shin-Etsu Chemical has plans to expand its silicones business by further investing an additional amount of 650 million euros into it. The move is in line with the growing demand for eco-friendly silicones in the region.

Braskem invested 87-million-dollars to expand biopolymer production capacity at its bio-based ethylene plant in Brazil. Today, the plant operates at an increased capacity of 260,000 tons/year from 200,000.

Gail has partnered with Lanzatech to explore the establishment of a CO2 capture and conversion pilot project in India. With this project, the companies aim to develop everything from fuels, packaging to clothing from biorecycled material instead of virgin fossil fuel.

Plug Power’s electrolyzers are expected to produce 43 tons of green hydrogen daily and will replace gray hydrogen in the oil refining process, thereby eliminating 516 tons per day of CO2.

The new demonstration unit will make use of Technip Energies' electric steam cracking furnacetechnology (efurnace by T.EN) which will help companies to use renewable electricity as a heat source for the olefins cracking process in the future. This move is expected to significantly reduce greenhouse gas footprint of the olefins production process.

Brightmark RNG Holdings, a joint venture between Brightmark and Chevron, has plans to develop five new anaerobic digestion dairy farm projects in western Michigan, USA. This includes the Castor Project which is the firm’s second-largest renewable natural gas project till date.

Lyondell Basell has successfully completed the acquisition of Mepol Group. Under the terms of the contract, Mepol and its subsidiaries Polar and Industrial Technology Investments Poland, will be subsidiaries in Lyondell Basell's Advanced Polymer Solutions business unit.

Samson Pfeiffer offers smart valves that can be used for the purpose of hydrogen production. The firm supplies its valves to companies that focus on the development of electrolysis plants.