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 […]

Estonia – Project developer Power2X based in the Netherlands is in the planning phase of a green methanol project in Estonia which entails an investment of more than 1 bln euros. The project will be developed in the industrial area of Niidu in Parnu aims to produce 500,000 tons of green methanol per year and […]

Belgium – Indaver is taking over the Mechelen-based scale-up InOpSys. InOpSys develops innovative solutions for the treatment of complex and toxic wastewaters generated during pharmaceutical and chemical production processes. InOpSys has an R&D lab in the BlueChem incubator in Antwerp and an engineering department in Mechelen. Using the Design-Built-Finance-Operate- Maintain (DBFOM) principle, the company develops, […]

United States – Verdagy has achieved a milestone with Shell’s technical endorsement of its eDynamic electrolyzers.

Belgium – Covestro is set to revolutionize the production of polycarbonate copolymers with the launch of its factory at the Antwerp site.

The Netherlands – Vattenfall has made a strategic decision to participate in the Dutch IJmuiden Ver offshore wind tender.

Norway – Aker Carbon Capture has signed an agreement with SLB to merge their carbon capture businesses.

France – European Commission has given green light to €900 million French scheme aimed at bolstering the production of renewable hydrogen and biomass based fuels.

United Kingdom – Vattenfall has finalized the sale of the Norfolk Offshore Wind Zone to RWE, valued at £963 million.

Netherlands – Bureau Veritas (BV), a global leader in testing, inspection, and certification (TIC), has awarded the Dutch-Norwegian renewable energy company SolarDuck the world’s first Prototype Certification for a floating offshore solar technology, as applied in SolarDuck’s 0.5 MW pilot “Merganser”. This certification represents a significant step forward in the development of marine renewable energy […]

United States – Sunrise Wind has secured its Record of Decision (RoD) from the US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).

Germany – thyssenkrupp Steel plant in Duisburg aims to connect to the GET H2 network by 2028, marking a crucial step in Germany’s hydrogen infrastructure development.