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LanzaTech | February 10, 2023

On February 9, 2023, LanzaTech Global, Inc., originally known as AMCI Acquisition Corp. II, announced the closing of its previously discussed business combination between AMCI and LanzaTech NZ, Inc., a groundbreaking carbon capture and transformation (CCT) company that generates valuable products from waste carbon. LanzaTech is the first CCT company in the US to go public. In accordance with the closing of the business combination, AMCI is now known as LanzaTech Global, Inc. On ...

Chemical Watch | February 27, 2020

Across the globe as much as 50m tons of electronic and electrical waste are produced each year, and, if current trends continue, this figure could more than double by 2050, according to a 2019 report from the Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE) and the UN E-Waste Coalition. Consumer electronics, such as smartphones, computers, TVs and cameras, account for half of all e-waste, with household appliances and heating and cooling equipment making up the rest. Reducing and elim...

PRNewswire | January 16, 2020

Italmatch Chemicals, a leading global specialty chemical group focused on the production and marketing of performance additives for water & process treatment, oil & gas, industrial lubricants and plastics, announces that has acquired from Israel Chemicals (ICL) the RecoPhos Project Technology, including all licenses, IP, know-how and assets related to it. The aim is to further develop and complete a sustainable, highly efficient and economical viable process to recover phosphorus from al...

Technology networks | May 26, 2020

Before water produced during hydraulic fracturing is disposed of in waterways or reused in agriculture and other industries, chemists at The University of Toledo are zeroing in on water quality and environmental concerns of fracking wastewater to determine if it is safe for reuse. The research scientists of the new Dr. Nina McClelland Laboratory for Water Chemistry and Environmental Analysis at UToledo created a new method that simultaneously identified 201 chemical compounds in fracking wastewa...