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Henkel to acquire coating and sealing manufacturer in the U.S.

Henkel AG (Düsseldorf, Germany) has signed an agreement to acquire the U.S.-based Seal for Life Industries LLC from Arsenal Capital Partners (USA). Seal for Life is a specialized supplier of protective coating and sealing solutions in a broad variety of…

Verde Clean Fuels and Cottonmouth Ventures announce joint development agreement for a proposed natural gas-to-fasoline facility

Verde Clean Fuels, Inc. (Houston) and Cottonmouth Ventures LLC, a subsidiary of Diamondback Energy, announced that the parties have executed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) for the proposed development, construction, and operation of a facility to produce commodity-grade gasoline utilizing…

Grace licenses PP technology to double polypropylene capacity for China Coal Shaanxi Co.

W.R. Grace & Co (Grace; Columbia, Md.) announced that China Coal Shaanxi Energy & Chemical Group Co., Ltd. (China Coal Shaanxi Company) has expanded its license for Grace’s UNIPOL PP process technology, doubling its polypropylene production capacity from 300,000 to…

AkzoNobel completes major capacity expansion at powder-coatings plant in Italy

AkzoNobel N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) announced that a major capacity expansion has been completed at the company's Powder Coatings site in Como, Italy, which will help secure supply to customers across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).  Four new manufacturing…

BASF to divest shares in its two joint ventures in Korla, China

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that in late 2023, it started the process to divest its shares in the two joint venture companies BASF Markor Chemical Manufacturing (Xinjiang) Co., Ltd. and Markor Meiou Chemical (Xinjiang) Co., Ltd. in Korla, China.…

Baker Hughes and partners inaugurate joint manufacturing plant for oilfield and industrial chemicals in Saudi Arabia

Baker Hughes (Houston) and Dussur, a firm owned by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF), Saudi Aramco and SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries Corporation), formally inaugurated on Sunday the previously announced joint venture (JV) chemicals manufacturing facility focused on providing oilfield…

SUEZ awarded new contract for water-treatment plant project in Indonesia

Suez (Paris, France)recently signed a contract for the Buaran III Water Treatment Plant (WTP) project in Jakarta. The Group will supply key equipment for the water treatment process and will provide technical advisory services for the installation and commissioning of…

Dow and Air Liquide renew industrial-gas supply agreement in Stade, Germany

Air Liquide (Paris) and Dow (Midland, Mich.) renewed their industrial gas supply agreement in Stade, one of the largest chemical production sites in Lower Saxony, Germany. In this context, Air Liquide will supply industrial gases under a long-term agreement and…

Li-Metal completes study for a commercial-scale lithium metal plant

Li-Metal Corp. (Markham, Ont.; www.li-metal.com) , a developer of lithium metal anode and lithium metal production technologies, announced the completion of its previously-announced concept study for a commercial North American lithium metal production facility with an annual capacity of up…

BASF and HGI partner to enhance secondary copper recovery through new mining technologies

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and hydroGEOPHYSICS Inc. (HGI), a leading provider of geophysical services to the mining industry, have announced an exclusive partnership aimed at combining expertise in mineral processing, hydrometallurgy, and deep well injection. The collaboration aims to optimize…