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CHEMICAL MANAGEMENT

Principal Solar, Inc. | December 29, 2021

Principal Solar, Inc. a strategic investor in organizations and technologies that support next-generation opportunities in traditional, renewable, and clean energy sectors as well as an investor in undervalued petroleum-producing properties, announced that it has reached an agreement with IntelliMedia/Apollo Green to convert its investment into a note with a return of capital and interest payable. The anticipated influx of capital resulting from this divestiture is expected to be utilized to fur...

PRODUCTS AND TECHNOLOGIES, MARKET OUTLOOK

Businesswire | April 13, 2023

Cemvita, the standard for biosolutions in the energy industry, announced the opening of a pilot plant in Houston, TX. The plant marks a landmark step in the development of technology for using CO2 emissions as feedstock to produce valuable biocommodities including fertilizer, plastic, methane, and fuels. The opening of the pilot plant also marks the launch of Cemvita’s eCO2 business as a wholly owned company under Cemvita. Boasting a substantial volume of 55,000 liters, th...

Newsweek | February 04, 2020

Scientists have come up with a new way of recycling plastic, returning the material to its "virgin" state. The U.S. recycles hundreds of thousands of tons of plastic each year, which is still just a tiny fraction of the sum chucked into the landfill, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. One of the problems with traditional methods of recycling is that it lowers the quality of the substance, so that the recycled plastic is of a lower grade than that of the origi...

CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY

First Carbon Corp. | December 24, 2021

First Carbon Corp. a developer of a proprietary, decentralized, carbon credit non-fungible token onboarding platform, is pleased to provide the details for the launch of its MintCarbon.io channel on the Discord social media platform. MintCarbon.io is the Company’s user-friendly interface that is being developed to enable carbon offset holders to easily convert their credits into highly customizable and ERC-1155-compliant NFTs. With the launch of the MintCarbon.io channel on Discord, an end...