Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, Mass.) announced it will build a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Mebane, N.C. The site is part of a recently announced co-investment with the U.S. government – a $192.5 million contract in coordination with the U.S.…
Cabot Corp. (Boston, Ma.) announced that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Tokai Carbon (Tianjin) Co., Ltd from Tokai Carbon Group for $9 million, subject to customary closing adjustments. The carbon black manufacturing facility was commissioned in 2006…
PJSC Tatneft (Almetyevsk, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia) has signed license and engineering agreement with Versalis S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese). The license obtained by Tatneft from Versalis pertains to technologies for the production of nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) and carboxylate styrene…
Elkem (Oslo, Norway) announced the opening of a new energy recovery plant at the Elkem Salten site in the northern part of Norway. The installation positions Elkem Salten as one of the most energy effective silicon plants in the world,…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) announced that it has started up a new production line for the manufacture of water-based compounds in Nantong, China. The business belongs to the Urethane Systems (URE) business unit which is also producing polyurethane dispersions, an important…
Johnson Matthey plc (London) announced a Memorandum of Understanding with newly established Norwegian company Hystar AS, a high-tech spin-out from Sintef (Trondheim, Norway), one of Europe’s largest independent research institutions. Hystar is backed by AP Ventures, a significant investor focused…
ECI Group (Manchester, U.K.) has signed an Engineering Expertise Agreement with Shandong Yulong Petrochemical Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of China’s Nanshan Group, for a dual-stream plant capable of producing 200,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA)…
Advanced Biofuel Solutions Ltd. (ABSL; Swindon, U.K.), a developer and producer of advanced biofuels, and Greenergy International Ltd., a leading manufacturer and supplier of waste-based biofuels, announced the signing of a Joint Development Agreement to develop, construct and operate up…
Solenis LLC (Wilmington, Del.) has merged with Sigura Water (Alpharetta, Ga.), an existing Platinum Equity portfolio company, for a total combined transaction value of approximately $6.5 billion. The combined company generates approximately $3.5 billion of revenue. Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware,…
Velocys plc (Harwell, U.K.) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Velocys Renewables LLC, has entered into its first offtake agreement for the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to be produced at the planned Bayou Fuels biorefinery project in Mississippi, USA. with…