PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.) announced the completion of upgrades that have expanded the capacity of its Yen Phong industrial coatings plant in Bắc Ninh province, Vietnam. The enhancements include a new production line dedicated to PPG Aquacron waterborne decorative and functional…
The Mitsubishi Chemical Group (MCG; Tokyo) has launched studies to perform chemical recycling of end-of-life tires (ELTs) by utilizing the coke ovens at its Kagawa Plant (Sakaide City, Kagawa Prefecture). The MCG Group aims to begin marketing sustainable carbon black…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced that it has agreed to acquire Saneg’s hydrogen production assets for $140 million, located at the Fergana Oil Refinery in Uzbekistan. This strategic acquisition is in alignment with the refinery's global modernization process and…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Tokyo) has signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) with Pupuk Indonesia Holding Company (PIHC), a state-owned fertilizer company in Indonesia, and Itochu Corp. Corporation (Tokyo). The agreement focuses on producing green ammonia by installing an electrolyzer at…
LyondellBasell (LYB; Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced it entered into an agreement to acquire full ownership of APK AG in Merseburg, Germany. Enabled by its technology, the acquisition positions LYB to grow and upgrade its Circular and Low Carbon Solutions business.…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) is continuing the production of chromium oxide pigments at the Krefeld-Uerdingen site and is discontinuing its original plans to sell the business. Around 50 people are employed at the plant for chromium oxides, which are used…
Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for biologics, vaccines, advanced therapies, and oncolytic viruses, announced the opening of its microbial fermentation manufacturing facility in Billingham, U.K. This new facility triples existing microbial production throughput with the…
Cespa (Madrid, Spain) has agreed to sell its subsidiaries for butane, propane, and autogas (Gasib) to Abastible S.A., a subsidiary of the Chilean Empresas Copec group and a leader in the Liquefied Gas business in Latin America. Under the agreement,…
INVISTA (Wichita, Kan.) announced that its manufacturing site in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, has received International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS certification of its processes to verify and validate bio, circular and bio-circular adipic acid and hexamethylene diamine (HMD) use.…
Deltech Holdings, LLC (Baton Rouge, La.), a producer of high-performance aromatic monomers, specialized crystal polystyrene, and downstream acrylic resins for the coatings, composites, construction, and other end markets, will be assuming the production of Divinylbenzene (DVB) from DuPont (Wilmington, Del.).…