Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) announced that a new facility at subsidiary Toray Industries (India) Private Limited began producing air filters earlier this month. These offerings for air purifiers and automotive and building air conditioners and air conditioners minimize pressure losses…
Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo) will invest in additional equipment for coating Hipore lithium-ion battery (LIB) separators. New coating lines will be installed at existing Asahi Kasei LIB separator facilities in the United States, Japan, and South Korea, with start-up scheduled…
Sandvik AB (Stockholm, Sweden) has signed an agreement to acquire Buffalo Tungsten, Inc. (BTI), a leading U.S. based manufacturer of tungsten metal powder and tungsten carbide powder, primarily operating in North America. The company will be reported within the business…
AGC Inc. (Tokyo) announced that it has succeeded in a demonstration test of glass production using hydrogen as fuel. This is the first time the AGC Group has conducted tests using hydrogen in an actual production furnace. The test was…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced that its Advanced Technologies & Life Sciences business line has been selected by Altris AB to provide front-end engineering and design (FEED) services for the world’s first industrial-scale sodium-ion battery production facility in Sandviken, Sweden.…
ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing LLC has licensed its advanced fluid-bed methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) technology to Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) for a demonstration-scale unit to be located in NEOM's Hydrogen Innovation and Development Center. Aramco plans to use the licensed ExxonMobil technology…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has started production in its state-of-the-art Superabsorbents Excellence Center at its Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium. The €25 million investment is a clear commitment of the company to the hygiene business as an important part of…
John Cockerill Hydrogen, a world leading electrolyzer manufacturer announced its U.S. entry with the acquisition of manufacturing space in Baytown for a new gigafactory. The facility is expected to create 200 new jobs and produce 1GW per year of electrolyzers.…
Arkema S.A. (Colombes, France) has begun production of Sartomer specialty UV/LED curing resins at its expanded facility in Nansha, China, where the Group invested to double the capacity, as announced end-2021. This will support the development of more sustainable solutions…
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced that it has reached an agreement with Air Liquide Engineering & Construction to acquire rights to license and market ester grade acrylic acid technology, and light and heavy acrylates process technology. The addition expands Lummus' portfolio…