Albemarle Corporation (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that its subsidiary, Albemarle Lithium UK Limited, has completed the acquisition of Guangxi Tianyuan New Energy Materials Co., Ltd. (Tianyuan) for approximately $200 million. A definitive agreement to acquire all outstanding equity from Tianyuan's shareholders…
Cashco, Inc. (Ellsworth, Kansas) has won a statewide award for Manufacturing/Distribution by the Kansas Department of Commerce for the 2022 To the Stars: Kansas Business Awards. The annual awards program recognizes businesses across the state for the valuable contributions they…
ICL Group (Tel Aviv, Israel), a leading global specialty minerals company, plans to build a $400-million lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathode active material (CAM) manufacturing plant in St. Louis. This is expected to be the first large-scale LFP material manufacturing…
Par Pacific Holdings, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the 63,000-bbl/d Billings refinery and associated marketing and logistics assets (collectively, the Billings Assets) from ExxonMobil Corp. (Houston) and two of its subsidiaries for a…
Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced it has expanded its existing long-term agreement for the supply of industrial gases with Jindal Stainless Limited (JSL), one of the largest stainless steel producers in India. Linde already supplies oxygen, nitrogen and argon to…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) announced that it is selling its triacetonamine (TAA) derivatives business to Italian company SABO. With the acquisition, SABO acquires the two production sites in Marl, Germany and Liaoyang, China. With the sale of its TAA…
Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland) will create a second production line at its new CHF 60 million state of the art facility for Exolit OP halogen-free flame retardants currently under construction in Daya Bay, China. This additional CHF 40 million investment…
Air Liquide (Paris) announces the construction of three plants in Taiwan to supply, in the framework of long-term contracts, two of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers with large volumes of ultra high purity industrial gases for their leading edge fabs.…
Chemviron SA, the European Operations of Calgon Carbon, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kuraray Co. (Tokyo), has opened a new activated carbon reactivation furnace in Feluy, Belgium, which will increase Chemviron’s Central European reactivation capacity to over 50,000 tons per…
Neste's Engineering Solutions, a global solution provider of high-quality technology, engineering and project services, and CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals Company Limited (CSPC), an important petrochemicals joint venture in China, have signed an agreement for CSPC to utilize Neste's proprietary NEXPAO technology…