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DuPont provides update on separation plans; accelerates Electronics split while Water business will remain

DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) announced the acceleration of the separation of its Electronics business and is now targeting November 1, 2025 to complete the transaction. This decision recognizes the size and importance of Electronics to the overall shareholder value creation opportunity…

Heraeus acquires Umicore’s platinum API business

Heraeus Precious Metals announced that it has acquired Umicore’s Platinum Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) business outside of South America. This transaction is a unique opportunity for Heraeus to strengthen its position and product portfolio. Through the integration, the company ensures…

Genesis Fertilizers and Stamicarbon partner to advance sustainable urea production

Genesis Fertilizers has signed Process Design Package (PDP) and License agreements with Stamicarbon, the nitrogen technology licensor of NEXTCHEM (MAIRE Group), to advance its proposed low-carbon nitrogen fertilizer facility in Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan. This partnership aims to integrate Stamicarbon's proprietary…

Pure Lithium and Saint-Gobain Ceramics to accelerate production of lithium-selective membranes

Pure Lithium Corp. (Boston, Mass.) has announced a joint development agreement with Saint-Gobain Ceramics, a global leader in specialty ceramic materials. The joint development agreement will accelerate the production of Pure Lithium’s patent pending lithium selective, water-blocking membranes for lithium…

Mosaic to sell phosphate mining unit in Brazil to Fosfatados Centro

The Mosaic Co. (Tampa, Fla.) and Fosfatados Centro SPE Ltda announced that they have entered into an agreement for the sale of a phosphate asset owned by Mosaic located in Patos de Minas, Brazil. Upon the closing of the transaction,…

Mitsui Chemicals to expand production capacity for thiourethane-based lens materials

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) announced plans to boost production capacity for its MR series of high refractive-index lens material. MR is a thiourethane-based high refractive-index lens material that offers a high Abbe value (minimizing chromatic aberration) and high refractive index…

Messer to construct $70-million air-separation unit in Arkansas

Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany) has announced a strategic investment of over $70 million to construct a state-of-the-art air separation unit (ASU) in Berryville, Arkansas. The new facility will address the growing demand for industrial gases in the southern…

AGC invests in a new glass production line in Lodelinsart, Belgium

AGC Glass Europe, the European branch of  AGC Inc. (Tokyo), announces a major investment in a new insulating vacuum glass production line at its Lodelinsart site in Belgium. This ambitious initiative represents a consequent capital investment, underlining AGC's ongoing commitment…

Seppic opens biofermentation facility at Air Liquide’s Innovation Campus Delaware

Seppic is opening a new laboratory dedicated to fermentation biotechnologies at the Air Liquide Group’s Innovation Campus Delaware. Fermentation is a process historically used to produce and preserve food. Applied to the cosmetics and health markets, this technology enables the…

AtkinsRéalis joint venture awarded $43-million DC Water management contract

AtkinsRéalis Group Inc. (Montréal), a world-class engineering services and nuclear company with offices around the world, announces today that Water Smart Alliance (WSA), a joint venture (JV) with Stantec, has been awarded a Water Program Management contract by the District…