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Hexpol acquires Spain-based rubber compounder Unica

Hexpol AB (Malmö, Sweden) has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Unión de Industrias C.A., S.A. (Unica) from Espiga Capital, a Spanish based Private Equity firm. Unica is a significant player in Rubber Compounds in Spain, supplying several demanding…

Veolia and Suez move forward with merger plans

Veolia Environnement SA and Suez (Both Paris, France) announce that their respective boards of directors reached an agreement in principle on the key terms and conditions of the merger between the two groups. The two groups have agreed on a…

Clariant opens a JV production facility in Cangzhou for high-end stabilizer additives

Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland) today announced the opening of a new world-class production facility for process and light stabilizers. The facility is jointly owned by Clariant and Beijing Tiangang Auxiliary Co., Ltd. (Tiangang), a privately-owned producer and leading supplier of light…

Lonza to supply materials for Natron Energy Na-ion battery production

Natron Energy, the world’s leading developer and supplier of high-power, long-life and low-cost Sodium-ion batteries using Prussian blue chemistry, and Lonza Specialty Ingredients (LSI; Basel, Switzerland) announced their agreement for LSI to supply high volumes of Prussian blue pigment materials…

Wood and NEL join forces to develop large-scale green-hydrogen projects

Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) has entered into a new, three-year engineering framework agreement with NEL Hydrogen ASA (Oslo, Norway) aligning with the company’s ambition to unlock sustainable solutions to global energy challenges. Through the provision of its project execution expertise,…

Metso Outotec to buils India’s first large-scale Grate-Kiln pellet plant

Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has signed a contract with an Indian customer for the supply of a large-capacity Grate-Kiln pellet plant in the State of Odisha, India.  Typically, the value for this type of an order is in the…

Technip Energies wins EPCC contract for IOCL expansion project

Technip Energies (Paris, France) has been awarded a significant Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning (EPCC) contract by Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) for its BR9 Expansion Project in Barauni, Bihar, in the Eastern part of India. This EPCC contract covers…

Sulzer Chemtech and Borealis develop new extrusion process for expanded PP

Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) and Borealis Group AG (Vienna, Austria) have completed the development of an innovative process for the cost-effective extrusion of expanded polypropylene (ePP) beads. Polypropylene (PP) is a highly effective material, offering advanced mechanical properties and…

Linde sells refrigerants business in Austria to TEGA

TEGA GmbH (Würzburg, Germany) has announced the acquisition of Linde plc’s Austrian refrigerant business. Thanks to the many years that TEGA has acted as Linde Austria’s reliable refrigerants supplier, critical stock and supply capacities are already in place for the…

Maire Tecnimont wins EPC contract for Port Harcourt refinery rehabilitation in Nigeria

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) announced that its subsidiary Tecnimont S.p.A. has been awarded a contract by the Federal Executive Council to carry out Rehabilitation works for the Port Harcourt Refinery Co. Ltd., located in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, in…