The Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) announced the signing of two strategic transactions to divest its European Petrochemicals (EP) business to AEQUITA and its Engineering Thermoplastics (ETP) business in the Americas and Europe to MUTARES, for a…
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Each month, Chemical Engineering highlights several novel technologies from academia and industry in the Chementator section. From water treatment to artificial intelligence to carbon capture (and much more), the Chementator section truly covers the gamut of groundbreaking chemical engineering work.…
Looking ahead to a new year also provides an excellent canvas to reflect upon the past year. We've published our 2026 CPI Business Outlook, but we also want to look back at the topics and features that resonated most with…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has successfully commissioned the steam cracker at its newly built Verbund site in Zhanjiang in South China as scheduled. This is the first cracker in the world using 100 percent renewable energy to drive its main…
Verdant Specialty Solutions, a Samyang Company, announced that it closed its acquisition of the assets of Lubrizol’s Elmendorf site, including the associated product portfolio and the on-site Research and Development laboratory. The Elmendorf acquisition significantly strengthens Verdant’s position in the…
On December 30, 2025 Saint-Gobain S.A. (Courbevoie, France) formed a joint venture (JV) with a subsidiary of Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa (a publicly traded Indonesian cement company 53% owned by Heidelberg Materials) to acquire Indocement’s mortars business in Indonesia. The JV…
Westlake Corp. (Houston) announced that it has completed the acquisition of the global compounding solutions businesses of the ACI/Perplastic Group (collectively, ACI). Headquartered in Portugal, ACI is a global manufacturer of specialty materials, primarily serving the wire and cable sectors.…
Samsung E&A (Seoul, South Korea) announced that it held a groundbreaking ceremony for its Wabash Low-Carbon Ammonia Project on the 5th January. Held at the Hay Adams Hotel in Washington, D.C., the ceremony was attended by approximately 70 project and…
Syensqo S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) announced that it has completed the previously announced divestment of its Oil & Gas business unit to SNF Group (Andrézieux-Bouthéon, France) for an Enterprise Value of €135 million. Syensqo’s Oil & Gas Business Unit, a global…