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Linde to build hydrogen plant for BASF in France

Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced that it has signed a long-term agreement with BASF, one of the world's largest chemical companies, for the supply of hydrogen and steam. Linde will design, build, own and operate a new hydrogen production facility…

Samsung Engineering awarded €1-billion contract for Baltic Chemical Complex ethane cracker

Samsung Engineering Co. (Seoul, South Korea) signed a €1-billion contract with China National Chemical Engineering & Construction Corporation Seven, Ltd. (CC7), a Chinese state-owned construction company, for the engineering and procurement (EP) for the Ethane Cracker in Gas to Chemicals…

Saint-Gobain divests glass processing business in Estonia

Saint-Gobain (Courbevoie, France) has entered into an agreement for the sale of its regional glass processing business Baltiklaas OÜ in Estonia to Polar Glass OÜ, a subsidiary of Barrus AS, the largest glued laminated timber manufacturer in Estonia and supplier…

Mitsui Chemicals to increase production of meltblown nonwovens

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) announced plans to expand its production facilities for meltblown nonwovens at its wholly owned subsidiary Sunrex Industry Co., Ltd. The move comes as an effort to respond to growing demand for industrial-use meltblown nonwovens, which will…

Kaneka to expand production capacity for biodegradable biopolymer

Kaneka Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) plans to significantly increase production capacity for its biodegradable polymer product, Green Planet, in Japan. Green Planet holds promise as an innovative solution against environmental harm caused by single-use plastics due to its biodegradable characteristics, while…

Linde expands decarbonization agreement with Celanese

Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced that it has expanded its existing agreement with Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.), and will begin supplying carbon dioxide and hydrogen to the Celanese manufacturing facility in Clear Lake, Texas. Linde currently supplies oxygen, nitrogen and…

PPG to acquire Milan-based powder coatings business

PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.) announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the powder coatings business of Arsonsisi, an industrial coatings company based in Milan, Italy. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022, subject…

BP acquires stake in Green Biofuels Ltd.

BP plc (London) has acquired a 30% stake in Green Biofuels Ltd (GBF), the U.K.’s largest provider of hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO). GBF’s products are made from renewable feedstocks such as vegetable oils, animal oils and fat.  The product range…

Air Liquide to build its largest biomethane plant in Illinois

Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) continues its development of biomethane activities with the construction in the USA of its largest biomethane production unit in the world. This will bring the worldwide biomethane production capacity of the Group to 1.8 TWh. The…

Cemex invests in green-hydrogen startup HiiROC

Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V. (Monterrey, Mexico) and CEMEX Ventures, its corporate venture capital unit, announced their investment in HiiROC, a clean hydrogen production startup. HiiROC developed a technology that uses thermal plasma electrolysis to transform biomethane, flare gas, or natural…