Stora Enso Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) acquires De Jong Packaging Group, based in the Netherlands, for an enterprise value of approximately EUR 1.020 million. This acquisition will advance Stora Enso’s strategic direction, accelerate revenue growth and build market share in renewable…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced that Hanwha Solutions Corporation (Hanwha) will use the LyondellBasell Lupotech T high-pressure polyethylene technology at a new site in Yeosu, South Korea. The Lupotech T process technology will be used for a 300,000 ton per…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) has commissioned a new wastewater treatment plant at its Belgium Kallo/Antwerp site. The special chemicals company invested around EUR 12 million in the plant, which has a treatment capacity of around 260,000 L of wastewater per…
Calibre Chemicals (Mumbai, India), a nutrition, pharmaceuticals and personal care specialty chemicals company, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% shareholding of RheinPerChemie GmbH (RPC), from Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany). RPC, located in Rheinfelden Germany, is a…
GEA Group AG (Düsseldorf, Germany) is investing €70 million in the construction of a new pharmaceutical technology center for freeze dryers in Elsdorf in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Spread across some 40,000 m², the new facility, which is…
BASF SE (Ludwifgshafen, Germany) is inaugurating the first plant of its new Zhanjiang Verbund site in the province Guangdong in South China today. The plant will provide a capacity of 60,000 metric tons of engineering plastics compounds per year in…
thyssenkrupp AG (Essen, Germany) has completed the sale of its Mining Technologies business unit to FLSmidth (Copenhagen, Denmark). In doing so, thyssenkrupp has once again renewed the focus of its portfolio and taken a further step toward becoming a high-performance…
Avient Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio) has completed its purchase of the protective materials business of Royal DSM N.V. (Herleen, the Netherlands) — including the Dyneema brand — which will now be called Avient Protective Materials and reported within the company's Specialty…
Eurotecnica (Milan, Italy), the technology arm of the Proman family of companies, announced the award of two other large contracts for the implementation of high-pressure melamine plants with 60,000 tons per year and 80,000 tons per year capacity, respectively. Both…
UBE Corp. (Tokyo) has decided to establish a new compounding facility for special grades at one of its local subsidiaries in Thailand, UBE Chemicals (Asia) Ltd. (UCHA), in response to growing demand for related products in the Asian region. The…