DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) announced the opening of its new DuPont Liveo Healthcare manufacturing site in Cooper River, South Carolina, to help better serve customers worldwide. The site, located in Berkeley County, will be operated using the same quality standards as DuPont’s Healthcare…
Nippon Shokubai Co. (Osaka, Japan) and Arkema S.A. (Colombes, France) are joining forces to launch feasibility studies and establish a joint venture (JV) for the construction of an industrial plant for the production of LiFSI (Lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide) ultrapure electrolyte salts,…
Clough Group (Perth, Australia) and Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy), in an equally shared (50/50) joint venture, have reached a new agreement with Perdaman Industries for the development of urea plant on the Burrup Peninsula, northwest of Karratha, on…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Tokyo) received a contract from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Government of Japan and will start a feasibility study (FS) for green ammonia production in Indonesia, under the collaboration with Pupuk Indonesia Holding Company…
Specialty chemicals company Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) and Advent International (Boston, Mass.), one of the largest and most experienced global private equity investors, are establishing a joint venture (JV) for high-performance engineering polymers. The two companies today signed an agreement…
LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) today announced a joint venture (JV) with Tianjin B&M Science and Technology (B&M), a subsidiary of China’s Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt (Huayou Cobalt) that specializes in cathode materials, a key component in battery manufacturing. LG…
Johnson Matthey Plc (JM; London) has entered into an agreement for the sale of part of its Battery Materials business to EV Metals Group, a global battery chemicals and technology business. The sale includes Johnson Matthey’s assets at the Battery…
Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo) announced that it has acquired all shares of Danish company Dublix Technology ApS, a provider of solutions that improve the efficiency of waste-to-energy (WTE) and biomass power plants. The addition of Dublix's combustion control and boiler…
Técnicas Reunidas S.A. (TR; Madrid, Spain) is currently executing EVER – Development of a Low Cost Electrolyzer for the Production of Green Hydrogen, an R&D project focused on the study, design, construction and validation of new anion exchange membrane technology…
Saint-Gobain (Courbevoie, France) has entered into agreements for the sale of its glass processing businesses Eckelt Glas and Glas Ziegler in Austria to the privately-owned German group AEQUITA, as well as the sale of its holding in the co-venture Glaskontor…