Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) is to cluster its MetAMINO (DL-methionine) production at three international hubs (Americas, Europe, and Asia) to maximize economies of scale and utilize robust processes. Evonik is a leading global manufacturer of DL-methionine, an essential amino…
Henkel Adhesive Technologies further enhances its market offerings for functional coatings by investing in actnano (Boston, Ma.). The advanced materials start-up provides a unique tailored conformal coatings technology for the protection of printed circuit boards in a variety of applications…
Lummus Technology, LLC (Houston) and New Hope Technologies announced that the companies have entered into a cooperation agreement for the marketing and further development of a leading plastic-waste conversion technology based on thermal pyrolysis. The agreement is part of Green…
Air Liquide (Paris) and KGHM Polska Miedź, one of the largest producers of copper and silver in the world, have signed a new long-term contract for the supply of oxygen and nitrogen at the Głogów site in Poland. Air Liquide…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) is expanding its Chinese polymer activities by investing around $100 million in building two new production plants at its Nanjing site. The Nanjing site is expanding by adding a reactor for vinyl-acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions…
Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo) has concluded agreements to transfer its polymer flocculant sales business to MT AquaPolymer, Inc. (MTAP; Tokyo) and Hymo Corp. (Tokyo.). Once the transfer is complete, the two companies will outsource the manufacture of polymer flocculants…
ANDRITZ Separation has been serving industries ranging from petrochemicals and soda ash to agrochemicals for more than a century. What all these chemical applications have in common is the importance of highly efficient thermal separation with either continuous or discontinuous…
Novozymes A/S (Copenhagen, Denmark;) has announced that the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) will help the company to reach its sustainability goals on water. Novozymes has a global presence with factories in Denmark, the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Argentina, India…
Koch Separation Solutions (KSS; Wilmington, Mass.) announced that it has been selected by Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (ADM; Chicago) to become a preferred vendor of water, wastewater, and in-process separations applications based on premium services and reliable products. This mutually beneficial relationship…
ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria) announced that it has switched its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) Recycling Team plants in Wöllersdorf, Austria, and Radomsko, Poland, to a mix of electricity from renewable sources in order to produce carbon-neutral rPET ( recycled polyethylene terephthalate).…