Todays Latest Updates: 29 September 2026

Plastic recycling: France. As part of the restructuring of Plastic Energy’s shareholding, TotalEnergies agreed to acquire from the new shareholder Plastic Energy’s 35% interest in the Grandpuits advanced recycling plant, in which TotalEnergies already held a 65% interest. The plant is now wholly owned by TotalEnergies. The Grandpuits advanced plastics recycling plant, located in Seine-et-Marne, started production in March 2026 and has an annual capacity to process 15,000 tons of plastic waste. The Grandpuits plant transforms hard-to-recycle plastic waste from French households, including waste collected in yellow recycling bins, which is currently sent to landfill or incineration, into a synthetic oil through a pyrolysis process. This process involves heating the waste to high temperatures in an oxygen-free environment. It makes it possible to recycle waste that cannot be recycled mechanically and to produce circular petrochemical feedstock as a substitute for fossil feedstocks. Link  29/09/2026.

Methanol: China. Goldwind Green Energy Chemicals (Xing’an League) Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Goldwind Technology — one of the world’s leading wind turbine manufacturers — set out to build a green hydrogen-to-methanol facility of unprecedented scale in Xing’an League, Inner Mongolia. The project uses wind power to produce green hydrogen, which is then combined with biomass-derived carbon sources to produce green methanol, a low-carbon marine fuel increasingly demanded by the global shipping industry as it decarbonizes under IMO and EU regulatory pressure. Link 29/09/2026.

Methanol: Portugal. HyOrc Corporation announced the completion of modular off-site fabrication and assembly for its first commercial waste to methanol module. The modular plant is now preparing for factory testing and then transport to Portugal, establishing HyOrc’s commercial footprint in Europe. Engineered to process approximately three tons-per-day of RDF—non-recyclable municipal and industrial waste—the system is designed to yield up-to one tonne-per-day of chemical-grade green methanol. Link 29/09/2026.

e-Methanol: India. Kandla is set to strengthen its role in India’s green shipping drive with the foundation stone laid for a Rs 2,300-crore e-methanol plant at Deendayal Port. The 150-tonne-per-day facility is expected to create more than 3,500 direct and indirect jobs and support the development of cleaner marine fuels. The project is being developed as a joint venture between the Deendayal Port Authority (DPA) and Assam Petro-chemicals Ltd (APL). Deendayal Port is being developed as a Green Hydrogen Hub under the National Green Hydrogen Mission, with infrastructure planned for the production, storage, handling and transportation of green hydrogen and its derivatives. Link 29/09/2026.