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New Strategy Leverages Lignin Condensation For Biomass Utilization
5/30/2024
There is an old saying in the biorefining industry that "You can make anything from lignin, except money." This bio-based compound is abundant and full of potential, but commercializing it remains a challenge.
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SK Chemicals' Breakthrough Circular Recycling Technology Gains Recognition In Europe
5/29/2024
European industries recognize SK chemicals' groundbreaking circular recycling technology. SK chemicals (CEO Ahn Jae-hyun) announced on the 29th that it participated as a presenter at the Plastic Industry & Environment Congress 2024, held in Douai, France from the 22nd to the 23rd.
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Neste, Marubeni Corporation And Resonac Corporation To Cooperate On Renewable Chemicals In Japan
5/28/2024
Neste, Marubeni Corporation and Resonac Corporation have entered into a cooperative agreement to enable the production of renewable olefins and derivatives.
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TA'ZIZ Awards Construction Contract For Low-Carbon Ammonia Plant
5/28/2024
TA’ZIZ, a chemicals and transition fuels ecosystem under development in Al Ruwais Industrial City, Abu Dhabi, announced today at the Make it in the Emirates forum, the award of a construction contract for its 1 million tons per annum (mtpa) low-carbon ammonia production facility.
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Fit For The Future: thyssenkrupp Uhde Enables Fertiberia To Decarbonize Its Existing Ammonia Plant
5/28/2024
Decarbonization is a major lever to protect the climate. Even better if existing assets can be preserved while converting them to carbon-free technologies. This is why Grupo Fertiberia engaged thyssenkrupp Uhde to reduce the carbon footprint of its existing ammonia plant in Puertollano, Spain.
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A Cleaner Way To Produce Ammonia
5/28/2024
Ammonia is the starting point for the fertilizers that have secured the world’s food supply for the last century. It’s also a main component of cleaning products, and is even considered as a future carbon-free replacement for fossil fuels in vehicles.
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Tecnimont (MAIRE) Received The Notice To Proceed With The Execution Of The Previously Announced Low-Carbon Ammonia Plant In TA'ZIZ Derivatives Park, UAE
5/28/2024
Further to the announcement made on 7 July 2022, MAIRE (MAIRE.MI) informs that Tecnimont (Integrated E&C Solutions) has received from Fertiglobe the notice to proceed with the construction activities related to the low-carbon ammonia plant under development in TA’ZIZ Derivatives Park, in the Ruwais region (Abu Dhabi, UAE).
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Combating Carbon Footprint: Novel Reactor System Converts Carbon Dioxide Into Usable Fuel
5/27/2024
Boilers are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. In a recent study, researchers from Japan and Poland developed a method to convert CO2 emissions from small boilers into methane, which makes use of an optimized reactor design that evenly distributes the CO2 feed.
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BASF Bolsters Investment In Its Performance Materials Capacity And Competencies In India
5/23/2024
BASF India Limited will increase the production capacity of its Ultramid polyamide (PA) and Ultradur polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) compounding plant in Panoli, Gujarat and Thane, Maharashtra.
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A Fungus Converts Cellulose Directly Into A Novel Platform Chemical
5/23/2024
The fungus Talaromyces verruculosus can produce the chemical erythro-isocitric acid, which has received little attention on the market to date, directly from cheap plant waste and thus make it interesting for industrial utilization.