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Kemira completes acquisition of Thatcher iron sulfate business

Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) has completed the acquisition of Thatcher Group’s iron sulfate coagulant business in the East Coast region of the U.S. The transaction includes certain customers and assets of the business. No employees will move to Kemira in…

Lanxess completes sale of Urethane Systems business to UBE

Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) has completed the sale of its Urethane Systems business to UBE Corp. (Tokyo) on April 1, 2025. UBE is a global manufacturer of chemical products and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. All relevant antitrust authorities…

Kuraray to acquire California-based materials-science company Nelumbo

 Kuraray Co. (Tokyo) has decided to acquire Nelumbo Inc. (Hayward, Calif.), a company that has developed a unique materials technology for surface modification. The purchase price has not been disclosed. Nelumbo was founded in 2016 as a technology start-up out…

Blue Tide & Shell Lubricants complete re-refining facility to develop lubricants from used motor oil

Pennzoil-Quaker State Company, a subsidiary of Shell plc, and Blue Tide, a company developing a network of used motor oil (UMO) re-refining facilities across North America and a portfolio company of Tailwater Capital LLC, announced the completion of Blue Tide’s…

Shell completes sale of Energy & Chemicals Park in Singapore

Shell Singapore Pte Ltd (SSPL), a subsidiary of Shell plc, has successfully completed the previously announced sale of its Energy and Chemicals Park in Singapore to CAPGC Pte. Ltd. (CAPGC), a joint venture between Chandra Asri Capital Pte. Ltd. and…

Trends in automation

I remember first learning the fundamentals of process control in my undergraduate courses some years ago. Our professor taught the class with a passion for the subject while impressing upon us, his students, how important the subject would be for…

BASF establishes global production for anode binders with manufacturing scaleup in the U.S.

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has expanded its manufacturing capabilities in the U.S. to include the production of Licity anode binders, aimed at supporting the rapidly evolving lithium-ion battery industry. Thanks to this new production capability, BASF now offers its Licity…

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Facts At Your Fingertips: Corrosion Monitoring Using Weight-Loss Analysis

Effective measurement of corrosion on process equipment and plant structures offers several benefits to plant operators. These include providing early warnings about damaging process conditions that could lead to corrosion-induced failures, establishing correlations between changes in process parameters and their…

Advancing Additive Manufacturing Using Data Visualization and AI

Establishing novel materials and systems is challenging for new companies. However, startup companies can streamline their research and drastically accelerate product development with effective tools and strategies While long-standing organizations are often challenged with digitizing large volumes of unstructured historical…