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LanzaTech Produces Ethylene from CO2, Changing the Way We Make Products Today


LanzaTech NZ, Inc. (“LanzaTech”), an innovative Carbon Capture and Transformation (“CCT”) company that transforms waste carbon into materials such as sustainable fuels, fabrics, packaging, and other products that people use in their daily lives, today announced it has successfully engineered specialized biocatalysts to directly produce ethylene from CO2 in a continuous process. This breakthrough in bacterium


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CO2 to Chemicals Startup RenewCO2, Spins out of Rutgers University with Seed Round from Energy Transition Ventures


Ground-breaking eCUT process creates carbon-negative chemicals for plastics from carbon dioxide and water using renewable power Announces $2 million in seed funding from Energy Transition Ventures alongside $8 mm in non-dilutive grants and awards Executes exclusive license of novel electrolysis catalyst from Rutgers University With chemical production lending to more than fifteen percent of global industrial greenhouse gas emissions, startup RenewCO2 announced its spin-out


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LanzaTech and Brookfield Form Strategic Partnership with an Initial $500 Million Commitment


LanzaTech NZ, Inc. (“LanzaTech”), an innovative Carbon Capture and Transformation (“CCT”) company that transforms waste carbon into materials such as sustainable fuels, fabrics, packaging, and other products that people use in their daily lives, announces today a funding partnership with Brookfield Renewable, and its institutional partners, to co-develop and build new commercial-scale production plants that


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APPEC: Sustainable aviation fuel use rising but policy needed to accelerate uptake-Neste


Although the Asia-Pacific region is lagging Europe and North America in its adoption of sustainable aviation fuel, a strong momentum exists, with Singapore and New Zealand emerging as front runners to promote its use, Sami Jauhiainen, VP APAC Renewable Aviation at Finland’s Neste said. “We have confidence this [SAF] market will come,” Jauhiainen said. “Both


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BASF and GS Engineering and Construction intend to jointly develop modular solutions for Carbon Capture


BASF and GS Engineering and Construction (GS E&C) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a strategic partnership to jointly develop modular solutions for Carbon Capture facilities. The partners want to develop individual package solutions from standardized elements for customers from all industries in order to remove CO2 from exhaust gases and process it so that


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BASF und GS Engineering and Construction wollen gemeinsam modulare Lösungen zur CO2-Abscheidung entwickeln


BASF und GS Engineering and Construction (GS E&C) wollen gemeinsam modulare Lösungen für Anlagen zur CO2-Abscheidung erarbeiten. Die Partner wollen für Kunden aus allen Branchen individuelle Paketlösungen aus standardisierten Elementen entwickeln, um CO2 aus Abgasen zu entfernen und so aufzubereiten, dass es weiterverwendet oder gespeichert werden kann. Eine entsprechende Absichtserklärung über eine strategische Partnerschaft haben die beiden


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Celebrating two successful years with the first in-person general meeting of the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI)


For the first time since the RCI’s launch on 20 September 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic, 50 participants from 34 companies met in-person at the Wasserturm Hotel Cologne, an old Prussian water tower. In this special location, participants looked back at a successful second year, discussed and defined strategic priorities for future activities of the now


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Covestro and SOL Kohlensäure sign framework agreement for biogenic carbon dioxide (CO₂)


Covestro’s NRW sites supplied with biogenic CO₂ from SOL Kohlensäure Supply partnership helps Covestro switch to alternative raw materials Both partners advancing Circular Economy and climate neutrality  Materials manufacturer Covestro and SOL Kohlensäure GmbH & Co. KG have concluded a framework agreement for a supply partnership for biogenic carbon dioxide (CO2). With immediate effect, SOL, as one


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Covestro und SOL Kohlensäure schließen Rahmenvertrag für biogenes Kohlendioxid (CO₂)


NRW-Standorte von Covestro mit biogenem CO₂ von SOL Kohlensäure beliefert Lieferpartnerschaft unterstützt Covestro bei der Umstellung auf alternative Rohstoffe Beide Partner treiben Kreislaufwirtschaft und Klimaneutralität voran Der Werkstoffhersteller Covestro und die SOL Kohlensäure GmbH & Co. KG haben einen Rahmenvertrag für eine Lieferpartnerschaft für biogenes Kohlendioxid (CO2) geschlossen. Ab sofort liefert SOL als einer der bedeutendsten europäischen


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University of Oklahoma Study Explores the Use of Carbon Dioxide to Make Acrylic Acid


Funded by the Department of Energy, a theoretical study led by Bin Wang, Ph.D., associate professor in the School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering in the Gallogly College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, is modeling how carbon dioxide could be combined with ethylene, the most common industrial chemical, to make acrylic acid, a


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