OQ Chemicals GmbH (Monheim am Rhein, Germany) has launched “OxBalance Isononanoic Acid”, the world’s first commercially available isononanoic acid that is produced from both bio-based and circular feedstocks, and is ISCC PLUS certified. The new product has a bio-based content…
Baker Hughes (Houston) and HIF Global announced their agreement to cooperate on the development of technology to capture carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere (CO2 Direct Air Capture or DAC). More specifically, HIF Global and Baker Hughes intend to test…
Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) has announced that its advanced separation technology will enable end-of-life plastics recycling at Indaver’s first plastic depolymerization plant currently under construction in Antwerp, Belgium. The new Plastics2Chemicals (P2C) plant will drive polymer circularity by using Sulzer…
Solenis (Wilmington, Del.) and Diversey Holdings, Ltd. announced they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Solenis will acquire Diversey in an all-cash transaction valued at an enterprise value of approximately $4.6 billion. Upon completion of the merger,…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that BASF Shanghai Coatings (BSC) opened its new technical center building at the BSC Minhang site. As one of the key highlights of the Minhang extension project, the launch of the technical center building marks…
Uniper SE (Düsseldorf, Germany) has selected Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.) to design the electrolyzer technology for Uniper’s Maasvlakte site at the Port of Rotterdam. At the Maasvlakte Energy Hub, Uniper will commission 100 MW of Plug electrolysis capacity to…
Occidental has announced that its subsidiary 1PointFive, a carbon capture, utilization and sequestration company, announced it has leased, through an affiliate, more than 55,000 acres along the Texas Gulf Coast, to develop a carbon capture and sequestration hub with the…
MECS, Inc. (MECS), a subsidiary of Elessent Clean Technologies, was contracted for the provision of an MECS sulfuric acid plant by Lithium Americas Corp. (LAC). The new 3,000 MTPD sulfuric acid plant will feature MECS HRS technology to harness waste…
The Momentive Performance Materials group (Momentive) announced a growth investment to build a new manufacturing facility in Rayong, Thailand. Breaking ground on what will be home to a new state of the art facility, this new site will expand Momentive’s…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced its investment in a new citral plant as part of its Verbund site in Zhanjiang, China, and menthol and linalool downstream plants at its Verbund site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. These plants are expected to come…