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ACHEMA Middle East to take place in Riyadh, October 2027

ACHEMA Middle East will now take place from 11–13 October 2027 at the new venue Riyadh Front Exhibition & Conference Center. The decision supports stronger international participation, enhanced business opportunities and impactful launch edition for the region's process industries. Following…

Eni breaks ground on battery manufacturing plant in Brindisi, Italy

Eni Storage Systems, a company jointly owned by Eni Industrial Evolution and FIB (Seri Industrial Group), launched construction works at the Brindisi industrial site for the development of a new integrated Italian and European hub for the production of lithium-iron-phosphate…

Evonik investing $100 million to expand API production site in Indiana

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) is making a significant investment to strengthen manufacturing capabilities at its Tippecanoe Labs site in Lafayette, Indiana. The site is home to one of the world’s largest facilities for the production of active pharmaceutical ingredients…

Asahi Kasei completes new dry-film photoresist facility in Taiwan

Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo) constructed a new slitting facility for SUNFORT™ dry film photoresist (DFR) at its manufacturing site in Tainan, Taiwan, on July 3. Commercial operations are scheduled to commence this month.  Asahi Kasei has been slitting SUNFORT™ DFR…

INEOS signs low-carbon hydrogen offtake agreement with H2BE

H2BE and INEOS Ltd. (London) announced that they have agreed preliminary commercial terms for the offtake of low-carbon hydrogen from H2BE, with an aim of supporting Ineos Project ONE's ambition to become the first zero carbon steam cracker in Europe.…

Eni makes investment in EnergyX lithium project in Chile

Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) has signed an agreement to acquire a 25% stake in Energy Exploration Technologies, Inc.'s (EnergyX; Austin, Tex.) Chilean subsidiary company Black Giant SpA, developing a lithium project located in northern Chile, near the Salar de Punta…

Givaudan opens new manufacturing plant in Indonesia

Givaudan (Zurich, Switzerland) celebrated the grand opening of its new, state-of-the-art production facility in Cikarang, Indonesia. By expanding manufacturing capacity and accelerating innovation, the new facility will strengthen the Company’s ability to meet rising consumer demand for memorable food experiences…

Sumitomo Chemical to establish JV with Samsung Electro-Mechanics for semiconductor materials

Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) announced that its wholly owned Korean subsidiary, Dongwoo Fine-Chem Co., Ltd. (Dongwoo Fine-Chem), has signed a joint venture (JV) agreement with Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Suwon, South Korea) to establish a joint venture company that…

Solstice Advanced Materials to acquire Element Solutions in $14.5-billion deal

Solstice Advanced Materials (Morris Plains, N.J.; formerly part of Honeywell) and Element Solutions Inc. (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Solstice to acquire Element in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at approximately $14.5 billion,…

Air Liquide makes $170 million investment in SK hynix semiconductor fab in Indiana

As part of a long-term contract, Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) will build, own and operate two new production units in Indiana to deliver ultra-pure gases to the first U.S. semiconductor fab of SK hynix, a South Korean global leader in…