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Maersk investment group funding €1.5bn plant making fossil-free plastics from methanol
THE MAERSK shipping family are funding a new company producing fossil-free plastics from green methanol. Launched by Maersk’s holding company AP Moller Holding and headed by chemicals executives, Vioneo plans to spend €1.5bn (US$1.64bn) building a 300,000 t/y plant in Belgium that could start operations in 2028.
Type: News
Adam Duckett asks what are men doing to help support gender diversity and inclusion?
Type: Feature
Partners share open-source PFAS-free packaging technique
FOLLOWING nine months of collaboration, partners Solenis and Zume have open-sourced a recipe and method for manufacturing non-plastic PFAS-free food and consumer packaging.
Type: News
Nouryon to acquire metal alkyl business
SPECIALTY chemicals company Nouryon is to acquire the merchant triethyl aluminium (TEAL) business from Sasol, an integrated energy and chemical company. This includes Sasol’s specialty fleet of returnable cylinders.
Type: News
Johnson Matthey will exit battery materials
JOHNSON MATTHEY (JM) is quitting its battery materials business after concluding the costs are too high and the chance of differentiation in the market too low.
Type: News
‘The sooner the better’: UK village welcomes approval of new lithium extraction plant
PLANS for a lithium extraction plant on the site of a former cement works in County Durham, northeast England, were approved this week.
Type: News
New technology extracts more lithium from mining waste
Scientists at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) together with Lithium Australia have developed a new technology that is able to extract up to 95% of the lithium locked up in spodumene ore – the rocks that the metal is extracted from before it is processed into batteries.
Type: News
Volunteer Spotlight: Ryan Oatley
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Type: Feature
New way to turn waste polyethylene into fuel
Uses mild reaction conditions and cheap solvents
Type: News
Woodside sells US$5.7bn stake in its first US LNG plant
AUSTRALIAN energy major Woodside has sold a 40% stake in its Louisiana LNG project to private equity firm Stonepeak for US$5.7bn as it seeks a foothold in the burgeoning US gas export market.
Type: News
Woodside greenlights US$17.5bn Louisiana LNG project
AUSTRALIAN energy giant Woodside has finally secured the funding to see through its mammoth Louisiana LNG project, furthering its goal to become a “global LNG powerhouse”.
Type: News
UK government extends Horizon Europe Guarantee scheme to end of September
THE support provided to UK Horizon Europe applicants while the UK is in the process of associating to the programme, has been extended for a further three months until the end of September 2023, the UK government has announced.
Type: News
European Commission to spend €8bn on hydrogen projects
IN A BID to structurally transform its energy system, while ending its dependency on Russian fossil fuels, the European Commission (EC) is planning on investing more than €8bn (US$7.7bn) on various hydrogen projects, including the creation of a new European Hydrogen Bank.
Type: News
Martin Pitt explores the 19th century inventors of the symbols and calculations upon which modern science-based chemical engineering depends
Type: Feature
UPDATE: Explosion at Texas chemicals facility
A SECOND major explosion at a chemicals facility in Port Neches, Texas, has resulted in the evacuation of 50,000 people.
Type: News
TEPCO proposes methods to dispose of treated water stored at Fukushima
TEPCO, Japan’s largest power company group, has released a report which outlines two potential methods for disposing of water treated with multi-nuclide removal equipment, that is currently being stored at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Type: News
RENEWABLE hydrogen producer Lhyfe and eight partners have been awarded a €20m (US$22.5m) grant by the European Commission (EC) for a 10 MW project that the collaborators expect to be the first offshore hydrogen project to achieve implementation, with production, export, and distribution expected to begin in 2026.
Type: News
The Royal Mint’s Tony Baker and Julian Cox explain to Adam Duckett how a solution in a beaker was transformed into a world-first chemical plant
Type: Feature
