Univar Solutions Inc. (Downers Grove, Ill.), a global chemical and ingredient distributor and provider of value-added services, announced a new agreement with Novozymes A/S (Copenhagen, Denmark), expanding its relationship to include biological solutions for for waste and wastewater treatment in…
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced it has been awarded a technology contract by Zhangzhou CHIMEI Chemical Co., a subsidiary of CHIMEI Corp. of Taiwan, for a grassroots diphenyl carbonate (DPC) plant in Fujian Province, China. Zhangzhou CHIMEI will build a new…
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany has opened a second production line for silica-based effect pigments in Gernsheim, Germany. Around 750 employees work at this site, which is home Merck’s largest pigment production facility worldwide. With this investment, Merck will significantly increase…
Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) and Chevron Lummus Global LLC, (CLG) announced the execution of a Joint Cooperation and Licensing Agreement for a complete suite of residue hydrocracking solutions. This will include Eni's EST (Eni Slurry Technology) and LC-FINING, LC-MAX, LC-SLURRY…
Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.) announced that its Performance Products division has completed the initial phases of a project to expand and widen its portfolio of E-GRADE specialty amines, including quaternary amine alternatives to tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH) and related products…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL) announced a strategic partnership on battery materials solutions, including cathode active materials (CAM) and battery recycling. The collaboration aims at developing a sustainable battery value chain, in support of…
Toray Plastics (America), Inc., announced that it has signed a letter of intent with Arlin Mfg. Co., Inc., located in Lowell, Massachusetts, to sell its Old Baptist Road plant (located in North Kingstown, Rhode Island) to Arlin. Arlin will continue…
W.R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.), the leading independent supplier of polyolefin catalyst technology and polypropylene (PP) process technology, has licensed its UNIPOL PP process technology to GAIL (India) Ltd, India’s principal gas transmission and marketing company under the Ministry of…
Axalta Coating Systems (Philadelphia, Pa.) broke ground for construction of a state-of-the-art coatings facility in Jilin City, Jilin Province, North China. The 46,000-square-meter new plant will produce mobility coatings to support growing customer demand in China for light vehicles, commercial vehicles,…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) announced the installation completion of its new thermoplastic composites (TPC) manufacturing facility at its Greenville, South Carolina site. At full production capacity, the new line will add more than 30 positions at the 27,000-square-foot facility. The project…