Chemical Engineering
SABIC completes sale of Engineering Thermoplastics business in the Americas and Europe
The Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) completed the divestment of its Engineering Thermoplastics (ETP) business in the Americas and Europe to Mutares SE & Co. for an enterprise value of $450 million. Commenting on the announcement, Dr.…
Shell sells Environmental Catalysts and Systems business to Lummus Technology
Shell Catalysts & Technologies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) announced that it has sold a number of intellectual property assets and experienced personnel relating to its Environmental Catalysts and Systems (ECS) business to Lummus Technology (Houston, Texas). For Shell Catalysts & Technologies, the…
Treating Safety Datasheets as Living Process Safety Records
A regulatory deadline rarely reaches into every document a site keeps on file, yet that is close to what OSHA's 2024 revision of the Hazard Communication Standard set in motion. The rule folds the seventh edition of the Globally Harmonized…
Worley wins contract for metal processing hub in Missouri
Worley Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia) has been awarded an engineering services contract by United States Strategic Metals, to support the development of their multi-metallic processing hub in Missouri, United States. This will include the development of a cobalt refinery and…
Capra Biosciences receives additional funding for domestic pharmaceutical API biomanufacturing
Capra Biosciences, Inc. (Manassas, Virginia), a biomanufacturing company leveraging modular, continuous bioreactor technology to enable flexible, cost-competitive domestic production of pharmaceutical ingredients, today announced continued progress under its project agreement with the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR; Washington, D.C.), part of…
TotalEnergies acquires Shell’s European onshore renewables portfolio
TotalEnergies SE (Courbevoie, France) has signed an agreement with Shell plc (London, England) to acquire its entire onshore renewables business in Europe, including 500 MW of solar and wind assets in operation or under construction, mainly located in Italy and…
Kemira acquires REPUR S.r.l., Italy-based activated-carbon company
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) has completed the acquisition of REPUR S.r.l., an Italy-based provider of activated carbon reactivation services for municipal and industrial water treatment applications. REPUR’s 2025 revenue was slightly over 5 million Euros and it employs 21 people.…
Antimony trisulfide plant commissioned at Idaho National Laboratory
Idaho National Laboratory (INL; Idaho Falls, Idaho) has announced the commissioning of a new modular mineral processing plant, which will be instrumental in helping the U.S. to secure a domestic supply of the critical mineral antimony trisulfide . The plant…
Hexpol acquires Italian thermoplastics manufacturer Vipa Group
HEXPOL AB (Malmö, Sweden) announced that it has acquired 100% of the Italian company Vipa Group (Ancarano, Italy). The company is one of Europe's leading developers and manufacturers of high-quality thermoplastic compounds with focus on the fast-growing Wire & Cable…
AGC transfers shares of polymer material business to Saint-Gobain
AGC Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) has entered into a share transfer agreement with Saint-Gobain K.K. (Tokyo, Japan), the Japanese subsidiary of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain S.A. (Courbevoie, France). Under the agreement, AGC will transfer all of its shares in AGC Polymer Material…