Imerys S.A. (Paris) announced it has entered into exclusive negotiations with Chemviron, a subsidiary of Calgon Carbon Corp., to acquire its European diatomite and perlite business. Through this acquisition, Imerys would extend and complement its European footprint in diatomite and…
Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) will invest approximately $150 million to build, own and operate an on-site air separation unit (ASU) in Boden, northern Sweden. Linde will supply oxygen, nitrogen and argon to H2 Green Steel’s integrated plant, which will use…
Arkema S.A. (Colombes, France) has agreed to acquire Dow’s flexible packaging laminating adhesives business, one of the leading producers of adhesives for the flexible packaging market, generating annual sales of around US$250 million. The proposed acquisition will significantly expand Arkema’s…
INEOS Oxide and LyondellBasell (LYB; Rotterdam, the Netherlands) have completed the sale of LYB’s Ethylene Oxide & Derivatives (EO&D) business and associated production facilities located in Bayport, Texas to INEOS. Tobias Hannemann, CEO of INEOS Oxide said, “We are pleased…
Dow (Midland, Mich.), Henkel Adhesive Technologies (Dusseldorf, Germany), and Kraton Corp. (Houston), have achieved a reduction in product carbon footprint for two of Henkel’s North American flagship products for end-of-line packaging: TECHNOMELT SUPRA 100 and TECHNOMELT SUPRA 106M. TECHNOMELT SUPRA…
From water to waste management, IFAT 2024 Munich (May 13–17) offers visitors insights and innovative solutions on a wide range of topics in the field of environmental technologies. From recycling methods and digitization strategies to material-flow management, the focus is…
Researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt (www.uni-frankfurt.de) and Kiel University (both Germany; www.uni-kiel.de) have developed a new sensor for the detection of bacteria. It is based on a chip with a surface coating that ensures only very specific microorganisms, such as…
Plant Watch Celanese expands production capacities for acetic acid and VAE April 9, 2024 — Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) started up a new production unit for vinyl acetate ethylene (VAE) in Nanjing, China and completed several downstream debottlenecking projects…
Trends related to the energy transition are shifting global demand for refined products and affecting feedstock slates, forcing petroleum refiners to embrace adaptation and flexibility Demand for fossil fuels has remained strong in the years after the COVID-19 pandemic, but…
The production and processing of cathode active materials (CAM) are among the largest contributors to the cost of lithium-ion battery manufacturing. Typical CAM manufacture involves multiple, multi-phase steps in a co-precipitation process that requires a large amount of water and…