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BASF boosts support for sustainable road construction with global distribution rights for RheoFalt rejuvenator

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Excluded from the agreement are Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands, where Ventraco will continue to supply the products. BASF offers polymer solutions for all types of asphalt paving applications. BASF maintains two laboratories in Ludwigshafen and Trostberg aimed at developing new high-performance additives for road construction.

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Umicore to Build Battery Recycling Plant in Belgium

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Umicore will build an industrial scale recycling facility for end-of-life rechargeable batteries in Hoboken, Belgium. The investment will enable Umicore to deal with the expected growth in the availability of end-of-life Lithium-ion, Lithium-Polymer and Nickel Metal Hydride rechargeable batteries.

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Researchers use ionic liquids for recycling bonded NdFeB permanent magnets

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Permanent NdFeB magnets are of two types: sintered and (polymer or resin) bonded magnets. Ionic liquids (ILs) are known to be excellent green solvents for many types of synthetic polymers and biopolymers. Researchers in Europe have demonstrated the use of ionic liquids for recycling bonded NdFeB permanent magnets. —Önal et al.

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Saft building European alliance for 7-year R&D push on advanced Li-ion and solid-state batteries; targeting gigafactory production scale

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manufacturing facilities with software and automation solutions; and. other leading European companies working in the fields of active material and system integration.

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Stanford’s GCEP awards $10.5M for research on renewable energy; solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy

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The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University has awarded $10.5 The following Stanford faculty members received funding for advanced research on photovoltaics, battery technologies and new catalysts for sustainable fuels: Self-healing polymers for high energy density lithium-ion batteries. modified plants.

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Solvay commissions 1 MW PEM fuel cell at SolVin’s Antwerp plant

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Solvay has successfully commissioned its 1 MegaWatt (MW) industrial demonstration Fuel Cell at the SolVin plant in Lillo, Antwerp, Belgium. This successful industrial scale-up project features Solvay’s specialty polymers and SolviCore’s membrane electrode assemblies; the fuel cell also increases SolVin’s brine electrolysis’ energy efficiency.

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VTT Launches European NEMO Project for Cellulosic Ethanol

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The production of ethanol by fermentation consists of four stages: the pre-processing of the raw material; the conversion of carbohydrates from polymers into sugar; the fermentation of sugar into ethanol using microbes; and the distillation of ethanol. Different technologies are being globally developed for pre-processing the raw material.

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