The Global Impact Coalition (GIC), a CEO-led collaborative platform for net-zero chemicals, is proud to announce LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) as its newest member. As one of the world’s largest chemical companies and a leader in sustainable materials,…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) and Fuhua Tongda Chemicals Company (Fuhua) have established a joint venture in Leshan, Sichuan Province, to produce and market hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in China. The new company, “Evonik Fuhua New Materials (Sichuan) Co., Ltd.,” has…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) this week started up two new production facilities for specialty silicones in Japan and South Korea. The expansion strengthens the company’s activities in the Asian growth market. The new plants, located in Tsukuba, Japan and…
India’s largest industrial gases manufacturer, INOX Air Products (INOXAP), has announced the commissioning of India’s first Ultra High Purity (UHP) Electronic Grade Nitrous Oxide Plant with a capacity of 1,700 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) at Manali, Chennai. The state-of-the-art…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) recently launched its Smart Effects division, a new entity counting 3,500 employees worldwide, born from the strategic merger of its Silica and Silanes business lines that will be part of the Advanced Technologies unit within…
LanzaTech Global, Inc. (Chicago, Ill.) announced its intent to form LanzaX, a business unit dedicated to its wholly-owned synthetic biology platform. LanzaTech intends to spin out LanzaX from its core biorefining business as a joint venture with Tharsis Capital LLC…
Brown and Caldwell (Walnut Creek Calif.), an engineering consulting firm creating and delivering water and environmental solutions throughout North America and the Pacific, has been awarded $650,000 in funding from The Water Research Foundation (WRF) to lead three innovative research…
Sparkle Clean Tech (Mumbai, India), a global provider of process technologies and value-driven energy solutions for upstream Oil and Gas customers, has reached an agreement with Siemens Energy (Muhicn, Germany) to license Intellectual Property from their upstream oil and gas…
Metso Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has signed an agreement with Mazoon Mining, a wholly owned subsidiary of Minerals Development Oman (MDO), to supply key process equipment for their copper concentrator plant located in Yanqul, near Sohar Industrial City. The value of…
Sika AG (Baar, Switzerland) has opened two new manufacturing plants in Singapore and in Xi'an, Northwest China. The newly built plant in Singapore specializes in the production of mortars, while the Xi'an facility manufactures a full range of Sika products,…