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41. MECS Enables High Purity E-grade Acid Production In 90% Of Facilities In Key Production Countries 2/23/2023

    MECS, Inc. (MECS), a subsidiary of Elessent Clean Technologies (Elessent), is the licensor of choice for the production of high purity sulfur trioxide and oleum that is required for high purity e-grade acid production used in the rapidly growing semiconductor industry

42. AI Conjures Proteins That Speed Up Chemical Reactions 2/22/2023

    A team led by the Institute for Protein Design devised machine-learning algorithms that created light-emitting enzymes called luciferases

43. Nanofluidic Devices Offer Solutions For Studying Single Molecule Chemical Reactions 2/22/2023

    In a chemical reaction, molecules in different substances meet one another to form new molecules causing changes in the bonds of their atoms. The molecules collide at an extremely close distance—a nanometer or less—in an extremely short amount of time

44. BASF’s Production Site In Rokuromi, Japan Now REDcert2 Certified, Supporting Growing Demand For Biomass Balanced Acrylic Dispersions 2/21/2023

    BASF’s Rokuromi site in Japan has received REDcert² certification after undergoing an independent third-party audit. This certification enables BASF to offer customers certified low CO₂ variant dispersions via the biomass balance (BMB) approach, with identical performance to comparable fossil-based dispersions.

45. Fujitsu And Atmonia Succeed In Development Of New Technology That Accelerates Search For Disruptive Catalyst For Enabling Sustainable Ammonia Production 2/21/2023

    Fujitsu and Atmonia ehf., an Icelandic start-up company developing a novel method for synthesizing sustainable ammonia, today revealed the latest milestone in their joint research into catalysts for sustainable production of ammonia, by successfully developing a high-speed technology for quantum chemical simulations.

46. Origin Materials And Avantium To Accelerate The Mass Production Of FDCA And PEF For Advanced Chemicals And Plastics 2/21/2023

    Origin Materials, Inc. (“Origin” and “Origin Materials”), the world’s leading carbon negative materials company with a mission to enable the world’s transition to sustainable materials, and Avantium N.V. (“Avantium”), (Euronext: AVTX) a leading technology company in renewable chemistry, today announced a partnership to accelerate the mass production of FDCA and PEF for use in advanced chemicals and plastics.

47. Cepsa And ACE Terminal Join Forces To Create Green Hydrogen Supply Chain From Spain To The Netherlands 2/20/2023

    Cepsa and ACE Terminal have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) by which the Spanish energy company will supply green ammonia to the planned import terminal in the port of Rotterdam, for end use applications in the industry after conversion of the ammonia back into hydrogen, or for direct end use in the shipping and other industries in Northwest Europe.

48. Dow Awards Fluor Front-End Engineering And Design For Its Proposed Net-Zero Ethylene And Derivatives Complex In Canada 2/20/2023

    Fluor announced today that it was awarded a reimbursable contract by Dow to provide front-end engineering and design (FEED) and engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the world’s first net-zero carbon emissions (scope 1 and 2 carbon dioxide emissions) ethylene cracker and derivatives complex in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada. 

49. Uniper And Greenko Signed Exclusivity For Green Ammonia Offtake To EU From India’s First Green Ammonia Project In Kakinada 2/17/2023

    Uniper and Greenko ZeroC Private Limited, the green molecule production arm of the Greenko Group, today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and Heads of Terms for Uniper to enter into exclusive negotiations for the offtake of green ammonia from Phase 1 of Greenko ZeroC’s ammonia production facility in Kakinada

50. Sumitomo Chemical Receives ISCC PLUS Certification For Acrylonitrile 2/16/2023

    Sumitomo Chemical obtained its first ISCC PLUS certification^*1 for acrylonitrile produced at its Ehime Works (Niihama, Ehime, Japan) from the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC), an international certification system for sustainable products.