Hapman (Kalamazoo, Mich.; www.hapman.com), a global leader in custom bulk-material handling equipment, is proud to announce a significant expansion of its manufacturing facility. As demand for Hapman’s solutions continues to grow, the company is investing in an additional 18,500 square…
Uncountable, (San Francisco, Calif.; www.uncountable.com), a software company that develops AI platforms for end-to-end product development, today announced it has signed four new agreements with specialty chemicals organizations to support formulation development, scale-up, and production optimization. The new deals underscore…
Water and soil impacted by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) is one of today’s most pressing environmental challenges, impacting rural, suburban and urban communities across the globe. But how to remediate these “forever” chemicals without just moving the problem from one…
SUEZ (Paris) and U.K.-based company Salinity Solutions announced the launch of the first Hybrid Batch Reverse Osmosis (HBRO) pilot dedicated to municipal wastewater reuse at the Béziers wastewater treatment plant in southern France. The pilot based on Salinity Solutions’ HyBatch™…
NatureWorks LLC (Plymouth, Minn.) , the leading manufacturer of polylactic acid (PLA) biopolymers made from renewable resources, announced the grand opening of its new fully integrated Ingeo™ biopolymer manufacturing facility in Nakhon Sawan, Thailand. The new site brings together lactic…
Salt X Technology AB (Hägersten, Sweden) and Holcim (Zug, Switzerland) have, within the framework of their joint development collaboration, successfully and repeatedly produced Portland-quality cement clinker using a fully electrified, scalable process. Cement raw meal from Holcim was calcined at…
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.) and SharpCell Oy, a Finnish family-owned company producing high quality airlaid materials, announced their cooperation to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the use of carbon capture and utilization (CCU) technology in Celanese binders. Pioneering in…
UPM Specialty Materials (UPM; Helsinki, Finland) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) are collaborating to help brand owners, converters and formulators accelerate the transition to recyclable*, fiber-based packaging solutions. By combining UPM’s barrier and barrier base papers with BASF’s Joncryl HPB…
Evonik (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) and Imubit (Houston, Tex.; www.imubit.com) started a pilot collaboration to evaluate advanced industrial artificial intelligence (AI) applications within Evonik’s facility in Singapore. The open-loop pilot will assess model-driven insights to support operating strategy execution in a…
KBR Inc. (Houston) has made a strategic investment in Geolith, a global leader in Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE). This investment will support the global commercial deployment of Geolith’s DLE Li-Capt® technology. In 2024, KBR and GeoLith entered into an exclusive…