Avient Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio) has completed its purchase of the protective materials business of Royal DSM N.V. (Herleen, the Netherlands) — including the Dyneema brand — which will now be called Avient Protective Materials and reported within the company's Specialty…
Technip Energies (Paris) announced that LG Chem (Seoul, South Korea) selected the company's proprietary blue hydrogen technology to supply its Daesan complex in South Korea. The Blue H2 by T.EN hydrogen plant will capture a significant amount of carbon dioxide,…
Eurotecnica (Milan, Italy), the technology arm of the Proman family of companies, announced the award of two other large contracts for the implementation of high-pressure melamine plants with 60,000 tons per year and 80,000 tons per year capacity, respectively. Both…
Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) has confirmed final investment decision for construction of world’s largest electrolyzer plant. The Board of Topsoe has now taken final investment decision (FID) to begin construction of the world’s largest solid-oxide electrolyzer cell (SOEC) electrolyzer manufacturing…
Sulzer Ltd (Wintherthur, Switzerland) has partnered with CELLiCON to scale up its groundbreaking manufacturing technology for nano structured cellulose – a highly sustainable, plant-based alternative to conventional polymers. The technology slashes the traditionally high costs and footprint associated with nanocellulose,…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany), SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) have started construction of the world’s first demonstration plant for large-scale electrically heated steam cracker furnaces. By using electricity from renewable sources instead of natural gas, the…
UBE Corp. (Tokyo) has decided to establish a new compounding facility for special grades at one of its local subsidiaries in Thailand, UBE Chemicals (Asia) Ltd. (UCHA), in response to growing demand for related products in the Asian region. The…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has entered into a binding agreement with Lallemand Inc’s subsidiary, Danstar Ferment AG, to divest the BASF Nutrilife baking enzymes portfolio and business. Subject to customary closing conditions, the transaction is expected to complete on September…
Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) has decided to establish a new company in Texas through Dongwoo Fine-Chem Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary located in South Korea, and to build at the company a high-purity semiconductor process chemical manufacturing plant. The…
Técnicas Reunidas S.A. (TR; Madrid, Spain) has announced its participation in the HYMET project to promote the valorization of waste from the iron and steel sector with renewable hydrogen. The HYMET project aims to study new technologies applicable in the…