Entegris, Inc. (Billerica, Mass.) is expanding its manufacturing presence in Taiwan with an investment of approximately $200 million over the next three to five years. Entegris plans to commence construction of a new facility in early 2021 and expects to…
Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has signed an agreement to sell its aluminum business to REEL International, headquartered in France. The business was announced to be for sale a year ago and has been since reported under discontinued operations. The…
DEME International NV (Zwijndrecht, Belgium) and OQ Alternative Energy (OQ; Muscat, Oman) announced the start of a joint project to develop a world leading, green hydrogen plant in the Special Economic Zone at Duqm, Oman in cooperation with The Public…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen Germany) has reached an agreement to sell its manufacturing site in Kankakee, Illinois and the associated businesses of vegetable-oil-based raw material sterols and natural vitamin E, anionic surfactants and esters produced there to an affiliate of One…
DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences (Wilmington, Del.) and Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) announced an exclusive partnership for the development and commercialization of DuPont’s enzymatic polymerization-based polysaccharide platform technology for certain applications. The collaboration will bring new, biobased and inherently biodegradable product…
Metso Outotec Oy (Helsinki, Finland) has been awarded a landmark contract by PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel to modernize one of the company’s two existing smelting lines at their Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant in Norilsk, Russia. The contract value is approximately EUR…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced that the Amur Gas Chemical Complex project, being implemented by Sibur Holding PJSC (Moscow, Russia), the largest integrated petrochemicals company in Russia, has selected LyondellBasell’s Spheripol technology for a new facility. The process technology will…
Orion Engineered Carbons S.A. (Luxembourg) announced that it has completed a multi-year upgrade to its Qingdao, China facility. A new, state-of-the-art, cogeneration unit was installed, which boosts the site’s sustainability by recovering more energy from the facility. “This is an…
Asahi Songwon Colors Ltd. (Gujarat, India) commenced commercial operations at the Dahej, India plant operated by its joint venture with Tennants Textile Colours Ltd., Asahi Tennants Color. The Dahej plant will produce red and yellow pigments. The installed capacity at…
BASF SE(Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Eramet Group (Paris, France) have signed an agreement to jointly assess the development of a state-of-the-art nickel and cobalt hydrometallurgical refining complex. Such a development would include a High-Pressure Acid Leaching (HPAL) plant and a Base…