NEO Battery Materials Ltd. signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Linde Korea Co., Ltd. (“Linde), an affiliate of leading industrial gases and engineering company Linde to collaborate on the scale-up of NEO’s silicon anode manufacturing for lithium-ion batteries. There…
Nippon Shokubai Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) reached an agreement with JSR Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) to acquire the shares of Emulsion Technology Co. (E-TEC). E-TEC was founded as a subsidiary of JSR in 1963. Focused on emulsion processes and products, E-TEC manufactures…
Lonza AG (Basel, Switzerland) announced it will invest in additional bioconjugation capabilities in Visp, Switzerland. The expansion will add two multipurpose 1,200L manufacturing suites and manufacturing-related infrastructure to the existing bioconjugation facility in Visp for launch and commercial supply.…
BASF SE (Lugwigshafen, Germany) announced that it will invest in additional production capacity for its X3D technology, a new additive manufacturing technology for catalysts based on 3D printing. The plant will produce catalysts on an industrial scale and is expected…
Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) announced that it has completed the capacity expansion for organic peroxides at its manufacturing facility in Ningbo, China. The expansion has doubled the annual production capacity to 6,000 tons each of Perkadox 14 and Trigonox 101…
Henkel AG (Düsseldorf, Germany), Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) and Quad Industries (Niklaas, Belgium) have announced a partnership in the field of printed electronics. By joining forces and combining their different areas of expertise the companies aim to accelerate customer developments…
Técnicas Reunidas S.A. (TR; Madrid, Spain) announced that it is leading the H2togreenceramics project: Applied research for the generation of alkaline electrolyzers that allow the decarbonization of the ceramic cluster in the Valencian Community (Spain), to promote decarbonization in the…
Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) and Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to offer an end-to-end solution for businesses developing alternative fuels from a wide range of feedstocks, including municipal solid waste, residual biomass,…
Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) has announced an enhanced collaboration with Chinese plastics recycling company Ausell. Building on their previous partnership in recycling polycarbonate water barrels, this new collaboration aims to accelerate the recycling of plastics from end-of-life vehicles, contributing to…
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with PTT Global Chemical PLC (PTTGC; Bangkok, Thailand) to explore mass production technology for adipic acid made from non-edible biomass (agricultural waste from producing plant-based foods). Toray…