Saint-Gobain (Courbevoie, France), through its insulation subsidiary ISOVER, will invest €120 million, starting in 2022, to increase its insulation production capacity in France and support the acceleration of the energy renovation market. These investments will involve both increasing the capacity…
DuPont Water Solutions, a DuPont de Nemours, Inc. (Wilmington, Del.) business, announced a major transformation of the OxyMem Membrane Aerated Biofilm Reactor (MABR) at its manufacturing facility in Athlone, Ireland. The investment in the facilities and employees at the Athlone…
Toray Plastics (America), Inc. has completed the sale of its Old Baptist Road (OBR) plant building and assets to Trico Specialty Films of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, an affiliate of Arlin Mfg. Co., Inc., of Lowell, Massachusetts. The business was…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced that it will build, own and operate a 10 metric ton per day facility to produce green liquid hydrogen in Casa Grande, Arizona. The zero-carbon liquid hydrogen facility is expected to be on-stream in…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) and fuel-cell specialists SFC Energy AG have signed a letter of intent on the distribution of renewable methanol. The letter states that, starting in 2025, Wacker plans to supply SFC Energy with up to 2,000…
Bayer AG (Leverkusen, Germany) and Cinven (London) have entered into a definitive agreement regarding the sale of Bayer’s Environmental Science Professional business for a purchase price of $2.6 billion (2.4 billion euros). “This divestment represents a very attractive purchase price…
Hexpol AB (Malmö, Sweden) has signed an agreement to acquire 70% of the shares in almaak International GmbH, a specialist in recycled engineered polymer compounds based in Krefeld, Germany. The company is engaged in the refinement of plastic raw materials…
Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) announced the beginning of the construction works of the first advanced biofuels plant in Spain at the company’s Cartagena refinery. At the event, Repsol's Chairman, Antonio Brufau, was accompanied by the Director of the industrial complex,…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.), together with their regional partner Saudi Arabian Refrigerant Gases Company of Saudi Arabia (SARGAS) — an affiliated company of Abdullah Hashim Gases and Equipment, Air Products’ longstanding industrial gas joint venture in the Kingdom of…
ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria) announced that it has become one of the largest polyethylene terephthalate (PET) recycling companies in Germany. With the acquisition of the recycling company Texplast from the FROMM Group, and all of its shares in the joint…