Thyssenkrupp Uhde has won a basic engineering package and front-end engineering design package from Gulf Biopolymers Industries for the first large biopolymer plant in the Mena region. The plant is expected to produce polylactic acid polymer in large-scale volumes.

Aker Carbon Capture has been awarded a feasibility study for an e-fuel project in Finland. The company plans to integrate its standardized and modularized carbon capture units into the e-fuel process at a waste-to-energy facility.

The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment in Finland has granted 2 million euros as energy investment aid to Neste for its green hydrogen project at the Porvoo refinery. The investment aid is for heat recovery from the green hydrogen production.

A pilot plant for cost-efficient production of green methanol was recently inaugurated at the chemical park in Leuna, Germany by the Minister for Transport Dr. Volker Wissing. The plant is part of the ‘Leuna100’ project and aims to offer climate-friendly fuels to container shipping and aviation industries.

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and the State of Rhineland-Palatinate have approved up to 124.3 million euros in funding for BASF’s 54-MW water electrolysis plant. The PEM electrolyzer is expected to produce up to 8,000 metric tons of hydrogen every year.

Repsol has started up its 2.5 MW electrolyzer at its Petronor industrial center in Biscay, Spain which is expected to produce 350 tons per year of renewable hydrogen for industrial use.

Chevron Lummus Global has started up an Isoterra unit at Chevron’s El Segundo Refinery in Southern California, USA. The unit makes use of the refinery's existing assets as well as the company’s proprietary catalyst and reactor internals technology to achieve exceptional diesel yields.

Lyondell Basell has plans to use its proprietary Moretec technology for the development of an industrial-scale advanced recycling plant in Germany. The project is expected to have an annual capacity of 50,000 tonnes per year and will recycle plastic packaging waste from the country.

BP’s Archaea Energy has brought online a first of its kind renewable gas plant in Indiana, USA. The plant is based on the Archaea Modular Design which helps the unit to be built on skids.

Arkema has further decreased the carbon footprint of its bio-based Rilsan polyamide 11 grades by 46 %, reaching less than 2 kg CO2e/kg. This was made possible by the firm’s use of renewable or low carbon energy sources and by making various energy efficiency improvements in its production sites.