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  1. A Renaissance For Plastics: ECI Group's Technology Selected For World's First Commercial Scale Fossil-Free LDPE Facility 9/2/2025

    Vioneo, a European pioneer in fossil-free plastics, has awarded a major contract to ECI Group, a global leader in polymer technology licensing and engineering services.

  2. ABB And Citroniq Target A World First With 100% Bio-Based Polypropylene Facility 8/28/2025

    ABB has entered a supply agreement with Citroniq to provide advanced automation, electrification and digitalization solutions for a 100 percent biogenic polypropylene facility in Nebraska, US – aiming to be the world’s first full commercial-scale facility of its kind.

  3. Sinopec Wins Engineering Contract For Saudi Arabia Green Hydrogen Project 8/27/2025

    According to a front-end engineering design (FEED) +EPC convertible contract recently awarded by Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power, Sinopec Guangzhou Engineering Co., Ltd., the wholly-owned subsidiary of the SINOPEC Engineering (Group) Co., Ltd. (SEG), and Spanish company Técnicas Reunidas, will form a joint venture to provide engineering service for a large-scale green hydrogen and green ammonia project in Yanbu. 

  4. Common Metal, Unusual Power: New Manganese(I) Complex Breaks Lifetime Record For Excited States 8/27/2025

    Reactions are typically driven by heat. However, in recent years, light has also established itself as an energy source, as it allows chemical reactions to be controlled with exceptional precision.

  5. New Insights Give Copper Catalysts A Boost 8/26/2025

    Platinum is often used as a catalyst to speed up industrial electrochemical reactions, such as those involved in wastewater treatment and in fuel cells for power generation.

  6. Researchers Leverage Advanced Bioengineering Techniques To Develop Plastics Made From Sustainable Biomaterials   8/26/2025

    Plastic products frequently pile up in landfills or spill into natural habitats where they occupy space and endanger wildlife.

  7. More Hydrogen, More Ammonia, More Fertilizer, All Using Less Energy 8/26/2025

    Researchers led by Genki Kobayashi at the RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute (PRI) in Japan recently discovered a way to max out the amount of hydrogen that can be stored in perovskite crystalline powder.

  8. BASF And Yara End Joint Project For Low-Carbon Ammonia At U.S. Gulf Coast 8/26/2025

    BASF and Yara International ASA have jointly decided to discontinue their project to develop a low-carbon ammonia production facility with carbon capture and storage in the U.S. Gulf Coast region.

  9. TRUNNANO Achieves Breakthrough In Spherical Aluminum Nitride Powder Production 8/25/2025

    TRUNNANO, a leading innovator in advanced chemical materials, has announced a major breakthrough in the production of high-purity spherical aluminum nitride (AlN) powder, overcoming long-standing technical challenges in the field.

  10. Chemists Develop Molecule For Important Step Toward Artificial Photosynthesis 8/25/2025

    A research team from the University of Basel has developed a new molecule modeled on plant photosynthesis: under the influence of light, it stores two positive and two negative charges at the same time.