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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...

Dec 24, 20242 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...


Aug 22, 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...


Jul 19, 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...


Jun 25, 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...


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


Apr 18, 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 1, 20241 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...


Dec 12, 20232 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...


Nov 7, 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...


Aug 24, 20231 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...

Jul 11, 20232 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...


Jun 14, 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,...

Mar 6, 20233 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...
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