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AUGUST 25, 2021

Raven SR, a renewable fuels company, is collaborating with Republic Services Inc. to convert organic waste to produce green hydrogen at a site in Richmond, California. The Richmond facility will be co-developed by the partners, with Hyzon investing up to 75% in the equity and offtake from the waste-to-hydrogen hub.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

The 2021 Nissan Rogue is the company’s first global model built using a “closed-loop” recycling system for aluminum parts. It also promotes the use of materials that don’t rely on newly mined resources, as well as the reduction of waste from factories.

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MARCH 4, 2015

Global Bioenergies has produced “second-generation” isobutene, in a push to diversify accessible feedstock towards cheaper resources. Various companies are presently de-bottlenecking the conversion of second-generation materials into fermentable sugars. —Frédéric Pâques, Chief Operating Officer at Global Bioenergies.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has released a demonstration tire with 70% sustainable-material content. Initial life cycle assessments demonstrate either reduced carbon emissions compared with current methods of carbon black production or the use of bio-based or waste feedstock sources. Non-pneumatic tire.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Cemvita defines Gold Hydrogen as the biological production of hydrogen in the subsurface through the consumption of trapped or abandoned resources. The subsequent field trial was completed in the Permian basin with a partnering company, where the team successfully measured hydrogen concentrations three orders of magnitude above baseline.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

Raven SR signed memoranda of understanding (MOU) to supply sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to All Nippon Airways (ANA) and to Japan Airlines (JAL) for major global routes. The supply will be produced by Raven SR at facilities planned for major global markets outside Japan to serve specific international routes of each airline.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

BMW i Ventures has invested in Software Motor Company (SMC), a Silicon Valley-based company developing reliable, efficient and intelligent motor systems. SMC’s vision is to eliminate the 25% of global electricity consumption that is wasted by legacy electric motors, thus accelerating the world’s transition from fossil fuels.

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JANUARY 22, 2023

Summit Nanotech Corporation, a company developing direct lithium extraction (DLE) technology, closed a US$50 million Series A2. The Series A2 funds will be used to expand the global resource-base and scale Canadian manufacturing capabilities. Resources Daga, Vijay et al.

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MARCH 17, 2023

Aqua Metals has successfully recovered high-purity nickel from lithium battery black mass using its proprietary Li AquaRefining process, utilizing electricity, and without a polluting smelter or the significant chemical waste typical in recycling. Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Velocys has engaged the global leading project finance bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), as the lender of record and as its financial advisor. The FONSI was issued as part of Velocys’ ongoing development of a 100-acre site in Natchez that the company secured in October 2017.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Globally, major LFP cell producers are striving to achieve similar increases in energy density by introducing manganese as a component of their cathode powder. The recent success in testing LMFP cells demonstrates the potential for VSPC’s patented manufacturing process to synthesize LMFP for these applications, the company said.

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MAY 7, 2019

Greyrock’s systems are designed to transform a variety of gas resources (including natural gas, flare gas, bio-gas, natural gas liquids, and other feedstocks) into premium transportation fuels. This additional investment supports Greyrock’s continued growth and development at an exciting time for the company and the industry.

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MAY 16, 2018

Global Bioenergies has been selected in more Horizon 2020 projects funded by the European Union, and will receive for this purpose about €2 million in grants over 4 years. Earlier this week, Global Bioenergies announced it is leading the €19.7-million For that, GBE is receiving funding amounting to €5.7 million (US$7 million).

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Energy company SG H2 Energy; the City of Lancaster, California; and Iwatani, Japan’s leading hydrogen industrial gas company and a developer of hydrogen refueling stations (HRS) in California, are launching California’s first closed-loop green hydrogen ecosystem for transportation.

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JUNE 30, 2011

A photobioreactor and algae perform the “water recycling”; the pelletized solid waste material will be used in the gasifier. has launched the first zero-waste chemical biorefinery in the US in Missoula, Montana. If we have fixed feedstock [such as the waste spent grain], we have price stability. Source: Blue Marble.

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JUNE 28, 2022

The company’s target is to start up the new production unit during the first half of 2026. The investment in the expansion of our Rotterdam refinery strengthens our global leading position in renewable products. Neste currently has a renewable products global production capacity of 3.3 million tons. million tons annually.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

The companies agreed to enter a strategic partnership to reduce the carbon intensity of renewable diesel and aviation fuel. They will also drive the development of innovative, cost-effective chemical processing solutions to improve the conversion of plastic waste into new plastics.

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AUGUST 19, 2015

Global Bioenergies first developed its isobutene process ( earlier post ) using glucose derived from cereals such as wheat or corn. Early in 2015, the company announced that the process was compatible with crude “second generation” sugars derived from agricultural and forestry waste.

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MARCH 27, 2022

The company manufactures flat steel products—primarily hot-rolled plates and coils—for both domestic and international markets. Launched in 2015, ResponsibleSteel sets global standards for sustainability performance and promotes the certification of steel chain companies through a network of independent certification bodies.

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DECEMBER 4, 2022

EPRI, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Southern Company Research and Development, and Deep Isolation recently were recently awarded $2.8 Deep Isolation’s nuclear waste repository leverages directional drilling to isolate spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in deep boreholes located underground in suitable rock formations.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

Global Bioenergies is now entering the final phase of demonstrating its technology for converting renewable carbon into hydrocarbons. The first trials on the demo plant in Leuna were successfully completed, within schedule, in the fall of 2016 and Global Bioenergies announced first production of green isobutene via fermentation.

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MARCH 21, 2020

a North-America-based lithium-ion battery resource recovery company, recently completed its first shipment of commercially recycled battery material, containing energy metals concentrate. The company also announced that it will establish its first US-based facility in New York State. Li-Cycle Corp. , Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Global Bioenergies has reached two milestones—the labscale performance and the industrial process scale-up—of its process to produce renewable isobutene, one of them more than 2 months in advance. million) to a consortium bringing together Arkema, the French center for scientific research (CNRS) and Global Bioenergies.

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APRIL 17, 2018

Global Bioenergies (GBE), the company developing a process converting renewable resources into isobutene via fermentation ( earlier post ), and SkyNRG, world market leader in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), will collaborate to accelerate the commercialization of Global Bioenergies’ approach to process isobutene into a jet fuel blending component.

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JUNE 11, 2021

As part of a $6-million project funded in part by a grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC), Oberon is converting waste methanol into rDME at its upgraded facility in Brawley, Calif. It is the first time this feedstock has been used to make rDME at commercial scale. Oberon Fuels’ pilot DME production plant in Brawley, California.

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JULY 20, 2020

A Korean research team has developed a technology that can be used to mass-produce aviation-grade fuels from wood wastes. Large volumes of lignin are generated as waste in the pulping processes that are used to produce paper. Despite the digital revolution, a sharp increase in global parcel volumes supports the global paper production.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Walmart will electrify and zero-out emissions from all of its vehicles, including long-haul trucks, by 2040, as part of its current goal to become a “regenerative company”. Walmart announced it is targeting zero emissions across the company’s global operations by 2040. —Doug McMillon, president and CEO, Walmart, Inc.

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MARCH 10, 2022

Keliber, a Finnish mining and battery chemical company that aims to start the sustainable production of battery-grade lithium hydroxide, has analyzed the CO 2 emissions generated by its future production using two studies. Keliber plans to begin production in 2024. In the comparison, Keliber shows the lowest emission intensity of 4.38

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APRIL 28, 2022

the third-largest propane supplier in the US, is the first company to make this more sustainable blended product available to its customers across Southern California. Each year, more than 170 million tons of propane are produced globally. billion metric tons of GHGs each year, or more than 2% of total global CO 2 emissions.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2022

In addition to the supply deal, SK On and SQM agreed to discuss a mid-to long-term partnership to enhance their cooperative relationship, including additional lithium supply, potential investment in production plants, and waste battery recycling. or in the countries whose FTA with the US is in effect. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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MARCH 24, 2021

This world-class resource covers around 130,000 square kilometers and spans about 700 kilometers from northeastern British Columbia to northwestern Alberta. Nauticol has partnered with Haldor Topsøe, a company with extensive experience and best-in-class technology that is commercially viable, proven, reliable and used world-wide.

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JUNE 28, 2021

The EU-funded research project HyFlexFuel recently successfully produced biocrudes via hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) from a variety of biomasses, including sewage sludge, food waste, manure, wheat straw, corn stover, pine sawdust, miscanthus and microalgae in a pilot-scale continuous HTL plant at Aarhus University (Denmark).

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, was awarded a $4-million grant by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) as one of the 15 REMOTE projects ( earlier post ) receiving a combined $34 million to find advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation.

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JUNE 24, 2015

The company also announced it will partner with Borla jointly to develop and to commercialize a next-generation-exhaust system incorporating PowerModules, with the goal of delivering significant fuel savings for commercial fleet truck fleets. According to TechNavio, 20-50% of global industrial energy is wasted as heat.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The building materials company has taken delivery of two all-electric iONTRON mixer trucks from Putzmeister , which will become part of the Berlin truck mixer fleet. The building materials company has taken delivery of two all-electric iONTRON mixer trucks from Putzmeister , which will become part of the Berlin truck mixer fleet.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Canada-based Euro Manganese (EMN) signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Norwegian state-owned company Statkraft for the long-term supply of carbon-free renewable energy for Euro Manganese’s flagship Chvaletice Manganese Project (CMP) in the Czech Republic. Statkraft is Europe’s largest generator of renewable energy.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

France-based Global Bioenergies, a company developing a processes to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons through fermentation, has joined aireg (Aviation Initiative for Renewable Energy in Germany e.V.) We are very excited about Global Bioenergies’ membership in our initiative. Earlier post.) Luning Prak, M.

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