Avient Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio) announced the addition of its first production line for Complēt and OnForce long fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites in Asia. The new line was installed at Avient’s Asia regional headquarters in Shanghai to help meet the increased…
Emerson (St Louis, Mo.) has been chosen by Syzygy Plasmonics to automate its innovative catalyst reactor technology that uses light instead of thermal energy, such as heat generated from burning fossil fuels, for chemical manufacturing. The all-electric production method is…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that ORLEN Południe, a leading player in biofuels in Poland, has recently concluded the first year of operation of its BioPG plant, converting glycerol, a by-product of biodiesel production, into renewable propylene glycol (BioPG). BioPG…
Saft has announced that TotalEnergies SE (Paris) has launched at its Antwerp refinery (Belgium), a battery farm project for energy storage with a power rating of 25 MW and capacity of 75 MWh, equivalent to the daily consumption of close…
Técnicas Reunidas S.A. (TR; Madrid, Spain) has signed a contract with the green fertilizer company Atlas Agro (AA) for the development of a zero-carbon fertilizer plant, Pacific Green Fertilizer (PGF), in the Northwest of the United States, close to Richland,…
Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo) has decided to invest in Castor Technologies Ltd., an Israeli startup specialized in the development of 3D printing software. In addition to utilizing CASTOR’s software and services, the investment will allow Asahi Kasei to pursue synergies…
Arkema SA (Colombes, France) is acquiring Polytec PT, a company specialized in adhesives for batteries and electronics. With the planned acquisition of Polytec PT, Arkema will strengthen Bostik’s product offer to serve the fast-growing batteries and electronics markets. This bolt-on acquisition…
The Mitsubishi Chemical Group (MCG Group; Toyko) will begin providing samples of DURABI D93 Series (under development), a new grade of the plant-derived bioengineering plastic DURABI with a higher biobased synthetic polymer content. DURABIO is a bioengineering plastic made…
Fujifilm Corp. (Tokyo) announced that it will build a new factory for cutting-edge semiconductor materials in Taiwan in order to further expand its electronic materials business. The company’s Taiwan-based semiconductor materials subsidiary, FUJIFILM Electronic Materials Taiwan Co., Ltd., will acquire…
Montana Renewables, LLC (MRL) hosted key aviation stakeholders, including Montana Governor Greg Gianforte, to celebrate the first production and initial shipments of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) under a multi-year agreement with Shell Trading (US) Company (Shell). The start of production…