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Borealis Completes Sale of Nitrogen Business to AGROFERT, Expanding European Fertilizer Production

(IN BRIEF) Borealis has successfully completed the sale of its nitrogen business to AGROFERT, a Czech-based group active in various industries including chemicals and agriculture. The transaction, valued at EUR 810 million, allows AGROFERT to expand its European presence in … Read the full press release

Wärtsilä Continues to Strengthen its Position as Major Supplier to LNG Carrier Vessel Sector

(IN BRIEF) Wärtsilä, a technology group, has won a contract to supply reliquefaction systems for eight new LNG carrier vessels owned by various global shipping companies. The orders were booked into Wärtsilä’s order intake in Q1 2023 and reflect the … Read the full press release

Evonik expands production of gas separation membranes to meet demand for sustainable energy solutions

(IN BRIEF) Specialty chemicals company Evonik has started up a new hollow-fibre spinning plant for the production of gas separation membranes in Austria. The new production capacity will meet the high demand for SEPURAN membranes in applications such as biogas, … Read the full press release

SGS to extend its laboratory in Shanghai to offer hydrogen testing

(PRESS RELEASE) GENEVA, 7-Mar-2022 — /EuropaWire/ — SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has announced the expansion of its laboratory in Shanghai to offer hydrogen testing in order to meet the growing demand of the Chinese green … Read the full press release

thyssenkrupp to test the industrial production, use and system integration of green hydrogen as part of German Federal Ministry of Education and Research’s hydrogen lead projects

H2Giga: thyssenkrupp is driving forward the industrialization of alkaline water electrolysis through automated series production H2Mare: thyssenkrupp tests the offshore production of green methanol and ammonia TransHyDE: thyssenkrupp tests ammonia cracking (PRESS RELEASE) ESSEN, 7-Oct-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — thyssenkrupp (ETR: … Read the full press release

Borealis to divest its nitrogen business unit

(PRESS RELEASE) VIENNA, 4-Feb-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — One of the world’s leading providers of advanced and circular polyolefin solutions and a European market leader in base chemicals, fertilizers and the mechanical recycling of plastics, Borealis announces its decision to start … Read the full press release

Valio and Gasum partnership will recycle farm manure into biogas to reduce milk’s carbon footprint 

Milk’s carbon footprint could be reduced by up to 50 percent Potential reduction of the usage of fossil fuels as well as methane emissions (PRESS RELEASE) HELSINKI, 3-May-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — Food producer Valio and energy company Gasum have just … Read the full press release

Valio aims for a carbon-neutral milk chain

HELSINKI, 01-Oct-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The record warm summer sparked a discussion about climate change and the future of food production in Finland and Europe. The environmental impacts of meat and milk production are at the core of the discussion because … Read the full press release

University of Nottingham’s breakthrough discovery to enable crops to take nitrogen from the air instead of from expensive and environmentally damaging fertilisers

29-7-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — A major new technology has been developed by The University of Nottingham, which enables all of the world’s crops to take nitrogen from the air rather than expensive and environmentally damaging fertilisers. Nitrogen fixation, the process by which … Read the full press release