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DOMO Chemicals and Siemens Smart Infrastructure validate new electrical-safety polyamide containing recycled content

Siemens Smart Infrastructure and DOMO Chemicals (Leuna, Germany) announced a significant milestone in their joint effort to promote sustainable practices in the electrical industry. DOMO Chemicals has successfully developed and validated a new, high-performance TECHNYL® 4EARTH® polyamide 6 (PA6) material to…

Philippines-based petroleum firm Unioil receives investments from Aramco and Repsol

Unioil Petroleum Phils., Inc. (Manila, Philippines), one of the largest petroleum players in the Philippines, has announced a pair of major strategic investments from Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) supporting continued growth within The Philippines and…

Innospec to expand production capacity for drag-reducing agents in Texas

Innospec Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) announced that it is expanding production capacity for its proprietary Drag Reducing Agent (DRA) technologies at its plant in Pleasanton, TX. Innospec’s DRAs provide multiple benefits to pipeline operators including increased throughput, lower operating costs and…

Toray opens advanced semiconductor technologies and materials R&D center in Taiwan

Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) announced that it has opened the Toray Taiwan Technical Center. The new facility will reinforce R&D in advanced semiconductor technologies and materials and provide technical services in the Taiwan market, which is becoming increasingly important in…

Wastefront breaks ground on U.K.’s first facility recycling end-of-life tires into fuels

Wastefront AS (Oslo, Norway) announced that it has officially commenced construction on its groundbreaking £100 million tire-to-fuel facility at the Port of Sunderland. The project marks a significant step in the U.K.’s push for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production, while…

ADNOC and OMV to create $60-billion polyolefins powerhouse via Nova acquisition and merger of Borouge and Borealis

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) P.J.S.C. and OMV AG (Vienna, Austria) have agreed to terms of a binding Framework Agreement regarding the proposed combination of shareholdings in joint venture Borouge plc  and Borealis Group AG (Vienna, Austria). ADNOC has…

Syensqo successfully demonstrates recycling of multilayer PVDC

Syensqo S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) announced the successful completion of an ambitious recycling initiative. The results of comprehensive trials have  proven that multilayer food packaging structures with Ixan polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC) can effectively be recycled into valuable feedstock for other applications…

Honeywell to acquire pump and compressor manufacturer Sundyne for $2.16 billion

Honeywell International, Inc. announced that it has agreed to acquire Sundyne (Arvada, Colo.) from private equity firm Warburg Pincus for $2.16 billion in an all-cash transaction. This represents approximately 14.5x 2024 EBITDA on a tax-adjusted basis. Sundyne is a leader…

Idemitsu Kosan to construct new lithium sulfide plant in Japan

Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd. (Tokyo) has decided to construct a large-scale production facility for lithium-sulfide (Li2S), a material used in all-solid-state lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. The company will expand production capacity of lithium sulfide, an important intermediate raw material for solid electrolytes,…

Finland’s first industrial-scale green-hydrogen plant goes into operation

Electrolyzer manufacturer Sunfire and P2X Solutions, a Finnish pioneer in green hydrogen and Power-to-X technologies, announced the commissioning of the production plant in Harjavalta. The Sunfire electrolyzer is Finland’s first industrial plant for the commercial production of green hydrogen. Nils…