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ENEOS, Mærsk To Invest $100m in Green Methanol Portfolio
Japan’s leading energy company has signed an investment agreement with C2X to advance the development of the Beaver Lake Renewable Energy...
Apr 162 min read


Sekisui Plans Perovskite Solar Cell Production, Installation on Bullet Train Soundproofing Walls
Bullet train (Shinkansen) operator  Central Japan Railway and Sekisui Chemical have concluded a joint development contract to develop...
Jan 82 min read


All-Carbon CO2 Separation Membranes to be Trialled by Toray
Japan's Toray Industries, Inc. has announced that it will install a pilot facility for its all-carbon carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) separation...
Dec 24, 20242 min read


Carbon Emissions Converted to Plastics
eFuels leader Infinium and Borealis, a leading supplier of advanced and sustainable plastic solutions, have entered into an agreement to...
Aug 22, 20242 min read


Shell Pulls Back on Advanced Recycling
Shell's 2023 sustainability report came out in March but is only now that reports are emerging regarding the oil major's inability to...
Jul 19, 20242 min read


Solar Forecasts Differ Wildy
If there's one industry whose future is difficult to gage in terms of volume shipments, then it must be solar panels. A recent article in...
Jun 25, 20242 min read


Composites make world's largest airship possible
Airship enabled with carbon fiber
May 9, 20242 min read


World's First Large-scale Electrically Heated Steam Cracker Starts Up
BASF, SABIC, and Linde have inaugurated the world’s first demonstration plant for large-scale electrically heated steam cracking...
Apr 18, 20242 min read


Idemitsu Mulls Bio-naphtha-based Ethylene Production in Japan
Hidden away in a joint press release announcing that Idemitsu Kosan and Mitsui Chemicals would further optimize ethylene production at...
Apr 1, 20241 min read


World's First Net-zero Emissions Ethylene Complex Gets Green Light
Brownfield investment in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, will be the world's first net-zero Scope 1 and 2 emissions ethylene and derivatives...
Dec 12, 20232 min read


SK Geo Centric Plans Second Pyrolysis Plant
SK Geo Centric is joining forces with Plastic Energy, the UK-based plastic pyrolysis specialist, to construct a waste plastic pyrolysis...
Nov 7, 20232 min read


DuPont Completes Transition Away from Polymer Production
DuPont has agreed to divest an 80.1% share in the Delrin polyacetal (POM) homopolymer business to private equity company TJC LP. The is...
Aug 24, 20231 min read


Oh the Irony! Wind Power Carries Coal
Japanese shipping company Iino Lines and fellow Japanese coal- and hydro-based electricity generator J-Power are "doing their bit for the...
Jul 11, 20232 min read


Mitsui Chemicals' Carbon Neutral Vision for Osaka
Methane is currently used to fuel crackers that pyrolyze naphtha at temperatures in the region of 850°C. Under Mitsui Chemicals' vision,...
Jun 14, 20232 min read


Dow, X-energy to Deploy First Small Modular Nuclear Reactor
Dow and X-energy sign joint development agreement to develop a four-unit Xe-100 facility at one of Dow’s U.S. Gulf Coast sites United...
Mar 6, 20233 min read
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