Chemical Engineering
Parker Hannifin completes $9.25-billion Filtration Group acquisition
Parker Hannifin Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio), the global leader in motion and control technologies, has announced it has completed its acquisition of Filtration Group Corporation (Oak Brook, Ill.) for $9.25 billion. "The close of this transaction marks another milestone in our…
Topsoe to supply technology for First Ammonia’s Texas green ammonia facility
Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) has signed an agreement with First Ammonia (New York, N.Y.) to provide its dynamic ammonia synthesis technology for the company's green ammonia production facility in Victoria, Texas. The project marks another important step toward commercial-scale green…
BASF Hygiene Solutions inaugurates superabsorbents laboratory in Mumbai
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has officially inaugurated its new Performance Lab for diapers and superabsorbents (SAP) in Mumbai on Aug. 18, 2026, which will provide technical and application services to superabsorbent customers globally. The new lab of BASF's Hygiene Solutions…
Cambrex breaks ground on $30-million R&D facility at Milan site
Cambrex Corp. (East Rutherford, N.J.), a leading global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has announced the start of construction on a new research and development (R&D) facility at its Milan, Italy site. This $30 million investment will add advanced…
Henkel opens packaging recyclability testing lab in Shanghai
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Düsseldorf, Germany) has opened a new route to certified packaging recyclability testing in Asia-Pacific. The Henkel Packaging Recyclab Shanghai has passed the official audit of the cyclos-HTP Institute (CHI; Aachen, Germany). The accreditation authorizes the…
Outokumpu inaugurates biocoke agglomeration plant to reduce ferrochrome CO2 emissions
Outokumpu Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) is inaugurating a new agglomeration plant for biocoke in Tornio, Finland. The plant enables the replacement of fossil coke with biomass-based biocoke in ferrochrome production. The approximately €30 million investment marks a significant step forward in…
Thermo Fisher Scientific completes sale of its microbiology business
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, Mass.) announced that it has completed the sale of its microbiology business to Astorg, a leading pan-European private equity firm, for consideration of approximately $1.075 billion, consisting of cash and a $50 million seller note.…
Nano One and Standard Lithium enter collaboration for LFP cathode material qualification
Nano One® Materials Corp. (Burnaby, B.C., Canada), a process technology company specializing in lithium-ion battery cathode active materials, has produced LFP cathode active material (CAM) and in-house battery test cells using battery-quality lithium carbonate supplied by Standard Lithium Ltd. (Vancouver,…
Vale and ABB join forces to expand automation across iron-ore processing plants in Brazil
Vale S.A. (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and ABB Ltd. (Zurich, Switzerland) have signed a strategic alliance with the aim of expanding the use of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to increase safety, productivity and sustainability in mineral production in…
Airengy and Nobian exploring compressed-air energy storage in Danish salt cavern
Airengy Tech Ltd. announced the signing of an additional partnership agreement to explore and assess the potential and feasibility of long-duration compressed air energy storage in a salt cavern in Denmark with a capacity of 2.5 GWh (2,500 megawatt-hours) and an…