Air Liquide Karabatan Tech Gases LLP (ALKTG), a subsidiary of Air Liquide Munay Tech Gases (ALMTG), a joint venture between Air Liquide and KazMunayGaz NC, the Kazakhstan National Oil and Gas company, with 75% and 25% ownership, respectively, has signed…
Milliken & Company (Spartanburg, S.C.) has opened a new state of the art pilot plant facility in Pune, India, further strengthening its polymer solutions business and advancing its ability to accelerate innovation for customers worldwide. The facility is designed to…
Arkema S.A. (Paris) has successfully started up its 15% PVDF capacity expansion in North America This capacity expansion in Calvert City, Kentucky, strengthens the Group’s leadership in PVDF. This investment of around 20 million US dollars will support the growing…
Resonac Corp. (Tokyo) announced that it will newly launch production of high-purity hydrogen fluoride (HF) gas at its Tokuyama Plant (Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan) within 2026. Combined with its existing production at the Kawasaki Plant (Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture,…
As part of strengthening its long-term raw material strategy, Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) has developed a new solution to secure the methanol supply needed for producing a methionine precursor at its Wesseling site. The concept was implemented together with…
AFRY AB (Stockholm, Sweden) has been awarded an engineering assignment by Kanadevia Inova in connection with the development of the U.K.’s first full-scale carbon capture facility in the waste-to-energy sector. The project is being developed by Encyclis, a leading owner…
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and Bio-Techne Corp., a Minneapolis-based global provider of life science tools, analytical technologies, and consumables, entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, will, subject to customary closing conditions, acquire Bio-Techne for…
Rockwell Automation Inc. (Milwaukee, Wis.; www.rockwellautomation.com), the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, recently announced its Singapore manufacturing facility has been named a member of the Global Lighthouse Network by the World Economic Forum (WEF; www.weforum.org).…
Yesterday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; www.epa.gov), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ; www.justice.gov), and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WV DEP; dep.wv.gov) announced the first comprehensive federal settlement with a major PFAS manufacturer, Chemours (Wilmington, Del.;…
ACC’s (Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) mid-year assessment of economic conditions was published at the end of last week. Despite the significant disruptions to the global economy, the U.S. economy has remained broadly resilient heading into mid‑2026. While export demand for advantaged…