
Swiss specialty chemical company Clariant will provide catalysts for Spanish energy giant Repsol’s Ecoplanta waste-to-methanol plant in El Morell near Tarragona, Spain.

Voltai, a Canadian cleantech company focused on ocean and renewable energy solutions, has closed an oversubscribed $1.83 million pre-seed financing round. Invest Nova Scotia led the round, with additional participation from an angel investor group headed by Mahir Sahin, former advisor to Alphabet’s