China – Domo Chemicals, a world leader in technical polyamide materials, is opening a new plant in Haiyan, China. With the new plant, Domo is responding to the increasing demand for solutions based on its TECHNYL polyamides in the Chinese market. With the €14 million investment, the company is doubling its capacity in China in […]

Belgium – Fluxys hydrogen, a subsidiary of Fluxys Belgium, will operate the hydrogen transmission grid in Belgium for the next 20 years. Fluxys hydrogen’s mission is to develop a pipeline network throughout Belgium. The appointment as “HNO” – Hydrogen Network Operator for Belgium – is a milestone to realize the energy transition. Based on Fluxys’ […]

Belgium – Ineos Oligomers has opened a new solar farm to provide CO2 free electricity to its production site at Feluy Belgium. The solar farm has an area of 2 hectares, produces 3.8 MW and will save 800 tonnes of CO2 per year. This is an important step for the Feluy site in its goal […]

Norway –  The Research Council of Norway unveiled plans to invest 180 MNOK in the establishment of a ground-breaking research centre, known as gigaCCS, dedicated to carbon capture, transport, and storage (CCS) technology.   With an eight-year timeline spanning from 2025 to 2032, gigaCCS aims to build upon the successes of its predecessor, NCCS, to […]

Belgium – Belgium and Norway have signed a letter of intent to enable the transport of CO2 between the two countries.  This initiative opens the door for companies to start projects and conclude contracts related to Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). The agreement between Belgium and Norway allows companies to capture CO2 and transport it […]

Germany – Shell Deutschland has commissioned a new bio-LNG (liquid biomethane) production plant at the Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland. The plant is the largest of its kind in Germany and can produce about 100,000 tons of this fuel annually. Shell is targeting freight transport with this fuel. Felix Faber, Managing Director of Shell Germany […]

Germany – NGK INSULATORS has received an order from BASF Stationary Energy Storage (BSES), a subsidiary of BASF, for NAS Batteries for a large-scale green hydrogen production project, developed by HH2E, a German green hydrogen producer. The NAS batteries that have been ordered have a maximum output of 18 megawatts and a capacity of 104.4megawatt-hours […]

Germany – Salzgitter AG and Uniper SE sign pre-contract for the supply and purchase of green hydrogen. This is to be produced in the large-scale electrolysis plant planned by Uniper, which is scheduled to be commissioned in Wilhelmshaven in 2028. The green hydrogen will be required for the SALCOS® – Salzgitter Low CO2 Steelmaking program […]

Germany – Pearl Group, an international leader in polyurethane (PU) insulation solutions and other PU-based applications, has launched Pearl Deutschland in Leverkusen, Germany. This strategic expansion is the latest development in Pearl’s ambitious PearlX2 strategy, which aims to double the organisation’s size by 2026.  Following the acquisition of Covestro’s majority stake in the joint venture […]

Germany – Vattenfall and BASF have agreed on the sale of 49 percent of Vattenfall’s Nordlicht 1 and 2 wind farms to BASF. The Nordlicht wind project is being built in the German North Sea without state subsidies and, with a total installed capacity of 1.6  gigawatts, will be the largest offshore wind farm project […]

Neste successfully conducted its first processing trial run with liquefied discarded tires. In the processing run, Neste produced high-quality raw material for new plastics and chemicals. For the processing run, Neste sourced pyrolysis oil derived from discarded vehicle tires by Scandinavian Enviro Systems, a Swedish company developing technologies to recover materials from end-of-life products. The […]

The Netherlands – Spanish energy company Cepsa has signed an agreement with Evos, a leading liquid energy and chemical storage company with hubs in strategic locations across Europe, to enable the storage of green methanol to be produced by Cepsa at Evos’ storage facilities in Algeciras and Rotterdam. The partnership, which also provides for the […]

Belgium – The competitive position of the Belgian chemical and life science sector has weakened significantly over the past year. The sector is struggling with a historically low capacity utilization rate, a 14% decline in turnover and an 18% decline in exports according to the 2023 annual figures of the sector federation essenscia. The advocacy […]

Germany – BASF, SABIC, and Linde have inaugurated the world’s first demonstration plant for large-scale electrically heated steam cracking furnaces. Following three years of development, engineering, and construction work, the regular operation of the demonstration plant is now ready to start at BASF’s Verbund site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. In March 2021, the three companies signed a […]

BASF metal refinery for battery recycling Schwarzheide

Belgium – The CEOs of the port companies of Antwerp-Bruges, North Sea Port, Duisburg and Rotterdam are calling on European government leaders to work together to find a solution to the industry’s deteriorating position. On the eve of the European Industry Summit, they underline the importance of the recently drafted Antwerp Declaration. The CEOs are […]

Finland – Borealis invests  4.5 million euro in the cracker furnaces of its olefins unit in Porvoo Finland. This investment ensures that the Porvoo steam cracker can increase the share of renewable and recycled raw materials used in its  (ethylene and propylene) production. The investment program is expected to be completed in 2025. The Porvoo steam […]

Hungary – Oil company MOL Group has installed a 10MW electrolyser at its Danube refinery in Száhalombatta, Hungary — the largest in Central and Eastern Europe to date — as its CEO vowed to produce green hydrogen at another two refineries. The green hydrogen plant in Százhalombatta, with a 10 megawatt electrolysis unit created by […]

France – Engie takes a ‘Final investment decision’  on €110m Franco-German hydrogen pipeline project MosaHYc. With the mosaHYc project, Engie has reached the first milestone in its goal of building 700 km of hydrogen transport networks in Europe by 2030.  MosaHYc is a cross-border project for the conversion of gas pipelines to transport hydrogen between […]

Finland – The lengthy permitting process with unclear outcomes, leading to an unpredictable timeframe for receiving a final, unappealable permit, forces BASF to consider layoffs for an indefinite period, potentially impacting all employees at the Harjavalta site in Finland. The recent suspension of the immediate enforcement of the environmental permit by the Vaasa Administrative Court […]

Germany – Vulcan Energy Resources has started production of the first Lithium Chloride (LiCl) product at its Lithium Extraction Optimisation Plant (LEOP) in Landau, Germany. This €40m investment by Vulcan is delivering the first domestically produced lithium product produced in Europe for Europe. The Upper Rhine Valley Brine Field in Europe contains Europe’s largest lithium […]

Sabic will start a turnaround at its Chemelot site at the end of this week. The Olefins 3 naphtha cracker and five other installations of the cracker complex will be taken out of operation during this. Sabic announces that it will not restart the cracker thereafter. This maintenance project involves an investment of several million […]

The Netherlands – About 100 people attended the TNO VoltaChem annual event today at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Geleen discussing the latest developments in industrial electrification. This year’s event focused on scaling-up water electrolysis and carbon capture and utilization (CCU) value chains. Staying within the 1.5 degrees global heating scenario requires a simultaneous energy- […]

Netherlands – Uniper postpones construction of green hydrogen plant in Rotterdam. High network costs and uncertainty about sufficient sales of green hydrogen are blocking the final investment decision. According to a spokesman for the energy company, pushing construction further back does not mean postponement. Uniper is in talks with the Dutch government about the high […]

Finland – Neste and South Korean chemical company Lotte Chemical are teaming up to replace fossil resources with renewable raw materials in the manufacturing of chemicals and plastics. This will enable products and applications with a lower carbon footprint compared to those produced from fossil resources. The collaboration will see Neste providing renewable Neste RE, […]

The Netherlands – The Protein Brewery, an innovative developer of plant-based, highly nutritious food ingredients, received regulatory approval by the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) to import, manufacture and sell food ingredients featuring Fermotein in Singapore.  The company’s hero product is Fermotein, a fermented fungi with a highly nutritious, healthy, and sustainable profile. The food ingredient […]

Europe – June 16-28, Industry & Energy will go on its third trail through Europe. Now along innovative industrial biotech projects. So away from conference halls to the places where new routes for the production of materials and protein are emerging. Who will join us?

The Netherlands – OCI Terminal Europoort has obtained a permit to build a large ammonia storage tank in the port of Rotterdam. Regional environmental Service DCMR granted the permit according to the new safety regulations. The new storage tank will have a capacity of 60 thousand tonnes of ammonia.

Germany – Industrial services provider Bilfinger has completed the previously announced acquisition of parts of Stork in the Netherlands and Belgium from Fluor. European authorities have approved the transaction and social partners in the Netherlands have given a positive opinion on the transaction. Stork will be fully integrated into the Bilfinger Group within a year. […]

Belgium – TotalEnergies will develop a new battery storage project on the site of TotalEnergies’ depot in Feluy. It will have a power rating of 25 MW and capacity of 75 MWh. De start up is expected at the end of 2025.

The Netherlands – Linde Engineering will build a large-scale CO2 liquefaction plant at Yara in Sluiskil. This project is part of Yara’s aim to capture 800 thousand tonnes of CO2 annually, liquefy it and transport it to permanent storage under the Norwegian North Seabed from 2025.

Estonia – Perpetual Next is to expand biocoal production at its site in Estonia. It also has plans for large-scale biomethanol production at its Baltania site. The company will partner with TSI to build the world’s largest reactors for biocoal production. Perpetual Next produces biocoal by torrefaction of woody waste streams. Currently, the company has […]