LyondellBasell Industries B.V. (LYB; Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced the expansion of its Purell portfolio in North America. Purell medical-grade polyolefins are used by healthcare and pharmaceutical companies across Europe. With this expansion, LYB brings its proven service model, regulatory compliance and innovation-driven…
At this year's K 2025, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and its cooperation partners will be presenting two pioneering technologies that enable the recycling of polyamides from end-of-life vehicles. While the recovery of metals from decommissioned vehicles has been successfully practiced…
Advancion Corp. (Buffalo Grove, Ill.) announced the expansion of its U.S.-based manufacturing capabilities with the commercial launch of MOPS buffer produced at its Sterlington, Louisiana facility. MOPS (3-(N-morpholino)propanesulfonic acid) is a zwitterionic biological buffer commonly used in cell culture and…
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) and Ketjen Netherlands Holdings B.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) have entered into a share purchase agreement for Nippon Aluminum Alkyls Ltd. (NAA), a company engaged in the manufacturing and sales of organometallic compounds such as alkyl aluminum.…
Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.) announced the delivery of its first 10-megawatt (MW) GenEco electrolyzer array to Galp, Portugal’s leading integrated energy company. The array was delivered to Galp’s Sines Refinery, home of the largest proton exchange membrane (PEM) hydrogen…
IBU-tec advanced materials AG (Weimar, Germany) and machinery and plant manufacturer Hosokawa Alpine (Augsburg, Germany) have set up a pilot plant for the recycling of battery materials at its headquarters in Weimar. As part of the cooperation, IBU-tec will contribute…
Battery material manufacturer ACT-ion Battery Technologies, Inc. (Dallas) announced it has signed a lease for a new facility at 1200 Tappan Circle in Carrollton, Texas. This site will house a state-of-the-art pilot plant dedicated to scaling its clean high-throughput manufacturing…
Niron Magnetics (Minneapolis, Minn.) has broken ground on a new state-of-the-art 1,500-ton-per-year permanent magnet manufacturing facility in Sartell, Minnesota. After nearly a decade of research and development in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of Minnesota,…
TotalEnergies (Paris) and Cognite, a leader in industrial AI, announced an agreement will scale the deployment - over a period of three years - of the Cognite industrial data and AI platform, across all TotalEnergies' operated upstream assets worldwide, covering…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (Omaha, Neb.) and Occidental Petroleum Corp. (Houston) announced a definitive agreement for Berkshire Hathaway to acquire Occidental’s chemical business, OxyChem, in an all-cash transaction for $9.7 billion, subject to customary purchase price adjustments. OxyChem is a global…