In France, Lactips, a company specialized in producing a soluble plastic with zero environmental trace, has developed new product applications to address the issue of polluting plastics on multiple levels. To strengthen and extend its dedicated range of plastics for water-soluble packaging, Lactips set up a partnership with Plastiques Venthenat, a French industrial firm specialized […]
In Denmark, Haldor Topsoe has a new green hydrogen organization that is fully dedicated to accelerating Topsoe’s business within electrolysis, including development of high-performance electrolysis technology, sales, and partnerships. The organization will leverage Topsoe’s unique insights into solid oxide electrolysis, producing up to 30% more green hydrogen from the same amount of renewable power, when […]
In Washington, D.C., ethanol production scaled up by 23,000 barrels per day (b/d), or 2.3%, to 1.034 million b/d, equivalent to 43.43 million gallons daily and the highest level since March 2020, according to EIA data analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association. Production was 35.2% above the same week last year, which was affected by […]
In the United Kingdom, Howden, the international insurance broker, announced the launch of Parhelion, the world’s first fully sustainable insurer. Parhelion is targeting a capital raise of $500m and is being advised by Howden Capital Markets and TigerRisk Capital Markets & Advisory. Against the backdrop of an insurance industry starved of truly sustainable capacity, Parhelion’s […]
We’ve all seen the horrific photos of ocean trash, much of it consisting of plastic fishing nets, but now biodegradable fishing nets made from algae and other biobased materials are on the uptake. Speaking of algae, in Italy, home-grown algae is being encouraged so folks can both purify their air and provide food right from […]
If you haven’t heard of the H2 HUB Airport initiative, there are some big names in the sustainable aviation industry who got together to launch this program and explore the opportunities offered by hydrogen and to boost air transport decarburization. We’re talkin’ Airbus, Air France-KLM, Groupe ADP, the Île-de-France Region and Choose Paris Region coming […]
In Switzerland, SkyNRG became the first in the world to receive a RSB CORSIA certification and marks another milestone in the history of sustainable aviation fuel certification. This CORSIA certification enables SkyNRG to supply airlines with CORSIA eligible SAF with both RSB EU RED and RSB CORSIA claims. It allows airline customers to count these […]
In Texas, gasoline is getting a makeover with the Odessa Development Corporation and Nacero Inc. building a $6.5 – $7.0 billion lower carbon gasoline manufacturing facility at a site in Penwell, Texas. The gasoline will be made from a combination of natural gas, captured bio-methane and mitigated flare gas. Phase one will produce 70,000 barrels […]
In Germany, biotechnology company AlgaeCytes Limited is building its first commercial plant in Dessau, Saxon-Anhalt, Germany which will house AlgaCytes’s unique algae-based technology to produce natural, vegetarian, traceable, high-potency algal EPA, beta-carotene and agricultural crop biostimulant from sustainable sources to serve the nutraceutical, pharmaceutical and food verticals. The plant will be owned and operated by […]
In the Netherlands, Avantium N.V was awarded over $2 million (€1.78 million) in total by the EU Horizon 2020 program for its participation in the CATCO2NVERS, CO2SMOS and VIVALDI consortia, to be paid out by the EU in 4 tranches over a period of four years. All three consortium programmes aim to reduce greenhouse gas […]
