DuPont’s (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) Nutrition & Health branch and Hygiena LLC (Camarillo, Calif.; www.hygiena.com), a Warburg Pincus portfolio company that specializes in rapid food safety and environmental sanitation testing, announced today that Hygiena will acquire DuPont’s global food-safety diagnostics business.…
Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.covestro.com) has begun delivery of a novel product based on carbon dioxide. The first tanker left the company’s Dormagen site near Cologne, Germany, on Tuesday. Covestro has now officially started production in the plant it inaugurated…
Green Biologics Ltd. (GBL; Abingdon, Oxfordshire U.K.; www.greenbiologics.com), an industrial biotechnology and renewable specialty chemicals company, announced the start of commercial shipments of bio-based n-butanol and acetone from its manufacturing facility in Little Falls, Minn. Over the past year, Green…
Solvay SA (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has signed a definitive agreement to sell its 58.77% stake in its Thai subsidiary Vinythai PCL to Japanese company Asahi Glass (AGC; Tokyo; www.agc.com), thereby exiting its Asian polyvinyl chloride (PVC) activities. The transaction is…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) has extended its successful exclusive PTA alliance with BP plc (London; www.bp.com) to include Acetic Acid. The Acetic Acid Alliance, relevant to front-end loading (FEL) 1 and 2 stages of fully owned and joint-venture projects developed…
Corbion (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.corbion.com) has agreed to sell its Breddo-Likwifier division to Ensight Solutions LLC (a wholly-owned subsidiary of AmProd Holdings LLC) in order for Corbion to focus on high value-add food ingredients. The sale was effective on December…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) will build a new production plant for its HDK brand of pyrogenic silica at its Charleston, Tenn. site. The new facility, with an annual capacity of about 13,000 metric tons, is anticipated to involve…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is building a production plant for precipitated silica in South Carolina to supply the tire industry. The industry needs high-quality precipitated silica for producing fuel-efficient tires with good wet grip properties, which can save…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced that in the first quarter of 2017, Mark Sopp will join the company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Current CFO Brian Ferraioli has decided to retire to spend more time with family. Ferraioli and Sopp…
Avery Dennison Corp. (Glendale, Calif.; www.averydennison.com) announced it has agreed to acquire Hanita Coatings, a pressure-sensitive materials manufacturer of specialty films and laminates from Kibbutz Hanita Coatings and Tene Investment Funds for the purchase price of $75 million, subject to…