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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. RheoFalt HP-AM, a powerful rejuvenator, enables 100% recycling of old asphalt, and has been scoring outstanding results in internal and external tests for 10 years.

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Borealis and Neste begin strategic co-operation for production of renewable polypropylene

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The co-operation will enable Borealis to start using Neste’s 100% renewable propane produced with Neste’s proprietary NEXBTL technology as renewable feedstock at its facilities in Kallo and Beringen, Belgium, starting end of 2019. Polymers and chemicals industries will play a major role in the fight against climate change.

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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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France-based advanced battery-maker Saft, a wholly-owned subsidiary of international energy giant Total, is building an alliance with other European partners to launch an ambitious program of research, development and industrialization for new generations of batteries focusing on advanced high-density Li-ion and solid-state battery technology.

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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 new funding will be shared by six Stanford research teams and an international group from the United States and Europe. Researchers will design self-healing polymers that can stretch to accommodate large volume changes in the battery during charge and discharge. 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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OMV says it will stop oil and gas production by 2050 in transformation to net-zero

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Austria-based OMV, an international, integrated oil, gas and chemicals company, announced its intention to become a net-zero (Scope 1, 2 and 3) company by no later than 2050. Demand for recycled polyolefins is expected to grow globally about three times faster than virgin polymers until 2030.

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Eavesdropping on the Brain with 10,000 Electrodes

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chief scientist at Imec , a leading independent nanoelectronics R&D institute, in Belgium, I saw the opportunity to extend advanced semiconductor technology to serve broad new swaths of biomedicine and brain science. organometallic polymer for the shanks. But none of those are compatible with advanced CMOS fabrication.