Two major semiconductor market leaders have awarded Air Liquide (Paris) long-term contracts for the supply of ultra-high purity industrial gases in Japan. To fulfill these contracts, Air Liquide has begun a staged investment of more than €300 million in four…
BASF SE (Ludwigshfaen, Germany) will increase production capacity for its hindered amine light stabilizers (HALS) at sites located in Pontecchio Marconi, Italy and Lampertheim, Germany. As part of a multi-step investment plan, BASF aims to support the growing demand for…
Koch Modular Process Systems, LLC (Paramus, N.J.; www.kochmodular.com), a provider of engineered and fabricated modular reaction and mass-transfer systems, today announced that they are expanding their ongoing business relationship with PureCycle Technologies, Inc. and will supply the modular recycling systems…
PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.ppg.com) today announced the opening of its new European Central Powder Coatings Research and Development (R&D) Center in Milan, Italy. The facility’s expanded capabilities, which include a customer application center, will enhance and accelerate powder coatings product…
SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) has announced a new collaboration with Kraton (Houston, Tex.; www.kraton.com), a producer of specialty polymers and high-value bio-based products derived from pine wood pulping co-products, to deliver certified renewable butadiene from its TruCircle portfolio for…
Biotechnology company Conagen (Bedford, Mass.; www.conagen.com) recently announced the development of highly sought-after debondable hot melt adhesives made by high-performance materials from sustainable and natural bio-molecules. The announcement offers a new alternative for manufacturers seeking debondable structural adhesive solutions to…
Sustainable materials producer Genomatica (San Diego, Calif.; www.genomatica.com) and Japan-based diversified global manufacturer Asahi Kasei (Tokyo, Japan; www.asahi-kasei.com) announced a strategic partnership to commercialize renewably-sourced nylon 6,6 made from Genomatica’s bio-based HMD (hexamethylenediamine, also abbreviated as HMDA) building block. Asahi…
Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; uop.honeywell.com) today announced an Integrated Olefin Suite (IOS) of technologies that can increase ethylene production and improve profitability when added to a naphtha steam cracker. IOS provides users with the ability to improve return on…
The Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) ammonia synthesis catalyst “AmoMax-Casale” was selected for a major, groundbreaking green ammonia project, being jointly developed by The Hydrogen Utility (H2U), a leading Australian developer of green hydrogen infrastructure, and Casale. The project will…
ABB, Inc. (Zurich, Switzerland) has been awarded two major contracts by Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.), a leading provider of turnkey solutions for the global green hydrogen economy, to provide the electrical systems for two new hydrogen plants in North…