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DECARBONISATION
UK’s Cory inks deal with Shell and Technip Energies

for CCS project

UK-based waste-management and
recycling company, Cory Group, has
announced a strategic partnership with
Shell Catalysts & Technologies and
Technip Energies on its planned carbon
capture and storage (CCS) project.

Cory is aiming to be net zero by
2030, and capturing the carbon dioxide
(CO ) from the non-recyclable waste it
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processes is central to achieving this. Its
proposed CCS project will use Shell’s
Cansolv CO capture system to capture well advanced, and it has already part- North Sea. This has the potential to
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the CO emitted at its Riverside 1 and nered with the Viking consortium, led be the first project in the UK to ship
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Riverside 2 energy-from-waste (EfW) by Harbour Energy, Associated Bri- CO , rather than transporting it via a
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plants in Southeast London. Once com- tish Ports (ABP) and BP, to develop pipeline, thereby helping to develop
plete, the project will capture approxi- a CO shipping solution which would international opportunities for the UK
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mately 1.4-mtpa of CO by 2030. see the captured CO transported by and opening up decarbonisation routes
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ship to ABP’s Port of Immingham for other coastal and river-based CO
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The company’s CCS plans are before permanent storage under the emitters in the UK.
Petronas to produce SAF by 2028
Malaysian state-run refiner Petro- sensitive market. “The biggest challenge SAF prices would decrease and become
nas is set to produce sustainable avia- with SAF is its price. It’s about three more affordable for airlines.
tion fuel (SAF) by 2028, the country’s times more expensive than conventional
transport minister, Mr. Anthony Loke, jet fuel because of limited production The MABD outlines clear guide-
said at a National Aviation Consultative and supply. We need to address the lines for reducing carbon emissions
Council meeting launching the Malay- supply side first before discussing how in the aviation sector by 2050. The
sian Aviation Sector Decarbonization airlines can adopt SAF,” Mr. Loke said. four pathways highlighted for aviation
Roadmap, or MADB. decarbonisation were aircraft technology,
He said the use of SAF is not cur- operational improvements, increasing
Currently, no local airlines in rently mandated by the government. SAF usage and carbon offset, such
Malaysia use SAF, which is primarily However, with production starting in as buying carbon credits under
attributed to its high cost in a price- 2028, the minister hoped that by then market-based measures.
Dow-Mitsui Polychemicals starts marketing of

biomass-based EVA and LDPE

Japan-based Dow-Mitsui Polychemi- mass EVA and biomass LDPE have the they can be easily switched from conven-
cals Co. Ltd. has started marketing same resin properties as conventional tional products, while contributing to the
biomass ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer petroleum-derived products because the raw reduction of GHG emissions over the
(EVA) and biomass low density polyethy- material, biomass ethylene, exhibits the entire product life cycle. The company
lene (LDPE) based on the mass balance same physical properties as conventional had obtained ISCC PLUS certification for
method from September 1, 2024. Bio- petroleum–derived ethylene. Therefore, its Chiba plant in May 2024.

166 Chemical Weekly September 17, 2024

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