Decarbonization

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11.12.2024 • TopicsStrategy

Circular Solutions

The path to a sustainable, net-zero future for the chemical industry is paved with challenges – and also opportunities.

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03.12.2024 • News

Air Liquide to Launch New Renewable Hydrogen Production Facility in France

French industrial gases group Air Liquide is launching a renewable hydrogen production project at La Mède, France, to supply TotalEnergies’ biorefinery at that site under a long-term contract. AirLiquide will build, own, and operate the new unit with a capacity of 25,000 t/y, producing hydrogen from recycled biogenic by-products instead of fossil hydrocarbons.

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26.11.2024 • NewsStrategy

Circular Solutions

The path to a sustainable, net-zero future for the chemical industry is paved with challenges – and also opportunities.

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24.10.2024 • News

TfS Launches Product Carbon Footprint Exchange Platform

With sustainability and carbon reduction high on the global agenda, industries are under increasing pressure to meet decarbonization targets in line with the Paris Agreement. To support companies in the chemical sector in meeting this challenge, Together for Sustainability (TfS), a global sustainability initiative representing more than 50 major chemical companies, has announced the launch of its Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) Exchange solution.

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02.07.2024 • News

NextChem to Conduct Feasibility Study on Low-Carbon Fertilizer

Italian engineering group Maire Tecnimont announced that its subsidiary NextChem, which specializes in sustainable technology solutions, has been awarded a feasibility study and a pre-FEED (front-end engineering design) contract by FertigHy to use NX Stami Green Ammonia and NX Stami Nitric Acid technologies.

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10.06.2024 • News

TotalEnergies and Air Products Sign Agreement for Green Hydrogen Delivery in Europe

Air Products and TotalEnergies have entered into a 15-year contract to annually deliver 70,000 tons of green hydrogen in Europe, commencing in 2030. This first long-term agreement is a response to TotalEnergies' tender for 500,000 tons of green hydrogen per year, aimed at reducing carbon emissions from TotalEnergies' European refineries.

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22.12.2022 • News

Topsoe Wins Ammonia, Methanol Contracts

Danish technology company Haldor Topsoe has been chosen by Ascension Clean Energy (ACE) to provide its Syncor autothermal reforming technology for a world-scale ammonia plant to be built in Louisiana, USA.

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15.10.2021 • NewsStrategy

A Pivotal Move to Net-Zero

Leading global chemical companies and the World Economic Forum (WEF) have announced that they are entering an agreement to formalize the Low-Carbon Emitting Technologies (LCET) initiative into a stand-alone entity by the end of 2023, to share early-stage risks and co-invest in developing and upscaling low-carbon emitting technologies.

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03.06.2021 • NewsStrategy

On the Way to Climate Neutrality

The EU Commission’s ambitious plan for a European Green Deal, launched shortly before the pandemic struck in early 2020, aims to make the continent the world’s first climate-neutral region by 2050. The goals spelled out in January last year call for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% up to 2030, compared with 1990 levels.

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13.03.2021 • NewsStrategy

Renewable Hydrogen

To take advantage of the opportunity hydrogen presents, the European chemical industry must engage in the emerging hydrogen market now, setting up specific pilots, develop an appropriate partner and ecosystem network and, most crucially, adapt the R&D portfolios and investment plans needed to capture a share of the hydrogen opportunity.

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09.03.2021 • NewsStrategy

CO2-Neutral Chemical Industry by 2050

The European Chemical Industry has set out on an ambitious path to become carbon neutral. Germany, as one of the major chemical manufacturing nations, has committed to achieve this goal by 2050. But companies need to translate this industry vision into their specific context.

CHEManager Spotlight

Standardization and Harmonization of Digital Chemical and Pharmaceutical Logistics
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Standardization and Harmonization of Digital Chemical and Pharmaceutical Logistics

CHEManager Spotlight is an exclusive event tailored for practitioners and decision-makers in the chemical industry. This part of our event series delves into the latest trends and innovations in logistics to streamline your operations and drive efficiency.