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New acrylic resin material for automotive bodies under joint development with Honda

The Mitsubishi Chemical Group is pleased to announce that it and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. are jointly developing PMMA material for automotive body parts.

thyssenkrupp Uhde awarded contract by ENOWA to supply a green methanol and methanol-to-gasoline plant

thyssenkrupp Uhde has been awarded a contract by ENOWA, NEOM’s energy and water company, for engineering services and the supply, design and procurement of equipment for a new CO2-to-methanol and methanol-to-gasoline demonstration plant at ENOWA’s Hydrogen Innovation and Development Center in Saudi Arabia.

Neste sees Singapore green jet fuel sales picking up from Q2 2024

Finland's Neste beat third-quarter core earnings forecasts and said SAF sales from its new Singapore facility would pick up from the second quarter of next year.

Axens, IFPEN, and JEPLAN commence operations at the Rewind PET facility in Japan for PET chemical recycling

Axens, IFPEN and JEPLAN entered into a partnership in 2020 to develop and license an innovative recycling process, called Rewind PET, that can be used to recycle all types of waste Polyethylene Terephthalate, especially those difficult to recycle mechanically.

Petoskey Plastics receives NOL from FDA for food-contact PCR-LLDPE

Petoskey Plastics has received a No Objection Letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration confirming the capability of its secondary recycling process to produce post-consumer recycled linear, low-density polyethylene material that is suitable for food-contact applications.

China sets minimum size for new refiners as it caps overall capacity

China has set a minimum size for new oil refineries and will ban small crude processors that claim to be chemicals or bitumen producers under its plan to limit total capacity at 1-B metric tons by 2025.

Ireland could start producing sustainable jet fuel from 2030

Ireland's offshore wind power plans could see it produce SAF from around 2030 but "significant progress" is needed to develop SAF at scale.

ExxonMobil licenses fluid bed methanol-to-gasoline technology to Aramco for synthetic fuel demonstration plant in NEOM, Saudi Arabia

ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing LLC has licensed its advanced fluid bed Methanol-to-Gasoline technology to Aramco for a demonstration scale unit to be located in NEOM’s Hydrogen Innovation and Development Center.

Philippines seeks gasoline price cut with higher ethanol blend

The Philippine government aims to lower domestic pump prices for gasoline by calling for a higher ethanol blend of 20% on a voluntary basis, from the current mandatory 10%.

Vitol to launch specialist biofuel bunker barges in early 2024

Global energy trader Vitol will be delivering specialized bunker barges at Singapore in early 2024, and will be able to offer a range of biofuel blends through its subsidiaries V-Bunkers and Vitol Bunkers.