Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) is doubling its global capacity for VESTAMID E polyether block amide (PEBA), with a twofold approach, including a major expansion of its production plant at the Multi-User-Site (MUSC) in Shanghai, and an optimization project at…
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) has developed what is said to be the world’s first mass-production technology for rare-earth-free zirconia balls. The highly durable balls could grind and mill ceramic materials for multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) and electrode materials for lithium-ion…
Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) has signed an agreement with JTC Corporation, the master planner and developer of Singapore’s industrial infrastructure, to build and operate a new research center for its separation technology solutions. The new facility will be located at…
Metso Outotec Oy (Helsinki, Finland) has inaugurated the extended manufacturing capacity of large screening equipment in Sorocaba, Brazil. The total Sorocaba production capacity will grow from 250 to 500 units per year, covering among other things the high-performance energy and…
Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland) announced the grand opening of its new CATOFIN catalyst production site in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, China. Investing in innovations such as CATOFIN is a core element of Clariant’s new purpose-led strategy, as expressed in the statement…
EMD Electronics, the Electronics business of Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany) in the U.S. and Canada, announced an agreement with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to support expansion plans at its semiconductor manufacturing site in Hometown. This expansion is part of the…
Chemetics, the technology and solutions provider for sulfuric acid and other specialty chemical facilities of Worley (North Sydney, Australia), has been awarded a contract to install its CORE-SO2 sulfuric acid technology at Arafura Rare Earths Ltd.’s Nolans Project in Australia.…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Atlas Agro AG to license KBR’s innovative K-GreeN technology for Atlas’ planned investment in a series of green nitrate plants. Under the terms of the MoU,…
TotalEnergies SA (Paris, France) has accepted an offer from Pacific Avenue Capital Partners for the acquisition of three product lines (Wingtack, PolyBD and Dymalink) developed by Cray Valley, its resin production and sales affiliate. The transaction includes four production sites…
Kuraray Co. (Tokyo) is partnering with PTT Global Chemical (PTTGC; Bangkok, Thailand) and Sumitomo Corp. (Tokyo) to open a manufacturing plant under the name of Kuraray GC Advanced Materials Co., Ltd. and Kuraray Advanced Chemicals (Thailand) Limited. This manufacturing plant…