The ability to economically produce large scales of graphene will help to enable many high-performance applications, from smart packaging materials and medical devices to safer gas storage. A new process demonstrated at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI; San Antonio, Tex.; www.swri.org)…
Plant Watch Cariflex opens $355-million latex plant in Singapore May 15, 2025 — Cariflex Pte. Ltd. (Singapore; www.cariflex.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of DL Chemical Co., Ltd. (DL Chemical), inaugurated its new polyisoprene latex plant at Jurong Island, Singapore. With…
Industrial fermentation using bacteria, yeast and other microbes to produce specific products has the potential to reduce future dependence on fossil-fuel-derived chemicals. To further the economic viability of industrial fermentation processes, engineers have turned to genetic modification to stimulate production…
Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Agri-Energy, LLC (Agri), a wholly owned subsidiary of Gevo, to A.E. Innovation, LLC for $7 million. The transaction includes Agri’s 18-million-gallon-per-year ethanol-production facility located in Luverne, Minnesota. Gevo…
Metso Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has signed an agreement to sell its Ferrous business to SMS group (Düsseldorf, Germany), a global company providing technology and services in plant construction and mechanical engineering for the metals industry. The businesses to be divested…
ExxonMobil France Holding has entered into exclusive negotiations with North Atlantic France SAS for both the proposed sale of its 82.89% majority shareholder interest in Esso Société Anonyme Française SA (Esso S.A.F.), as well as the proposed sale of ExxonMobil…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and DOMO Chemicals (Leuna, Germany) have signed an agreement giving BASF the right to take over DOMO Chemicals’ 49% share of the Alsachimie joint venture, in which BASF currently holds 51%. According to applicable laws, the…
Saint-Gobain S.A. (Courbevoie, France) has announced the launch of a new low-carbon stone-wool insulation plant in the U.K., which will be located on a site owned by the Group in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, and is expected to begin production in…
Airex Energy (Bécancour, Quebec, Canada), Groupe Rémabec, a Quebec-based forestry company and SUEZ Group (Paris) inaugurated Carbonity, Canada's first industrial-scale biochar plant, in Port-Cartier. Resulting from a partnership between the three companies, the plant will start with a production capacity…
Borealis Group (Vienna, Austria) and Borouge Plc have announced a significant expansion of their global capacity for cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) and semiconductive (semicon) compounds—supporting customers to deliver the power cables essential to distribution and transmission grids. By the end of…