Stora Enso Oyj (Helsinki, Finland; www.storaenso.com) is investing €10 million to build a pilot facility for producing bio-based carbon materials based on lignin. Wood-based carbon can be utilized as a crucial component in batteries typically used in consumer electronics, the…
Airgas, an Air Liquide company (www.airgas.com), announced the grand opening of its new liquid carbon dioxide and dry ice facility in Stockton, California. The facility, which was engineered to have minimal environmental impact, is a zero runoff/discharge site. Technology at…
Food and ingredients manufacturer Bunge Ltd. (White Plains, N.Y.; www.bunge.com) announced an agreement with BP plc (London; www.bp.com) to form a 50:50 joint venture (JV) that will create a leading bioenergy company in Brazil, one of the world’s largest fast-growing…
PPG (Pittburgh, Pa.; www.ppg.com) announced that it has reached a definitive agreement with private equity firm Sverica Capital Management LP to acquire Dexmet Corporation, a manufacturer of specialty materials for surfaces in aerospace, automotive and industrial applications. The company is…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) and thyssenkrupp Steel, a world leading supplier of carbon-steel flat products, join forces in a pioneering project to develop lower carbon steel production. For the first time, hydrogen will be injected to partially replace pulverized…
Methanex Corp. (Vancouver, B.C., Canada; www.methanex.com) announced that its Board of Directors reached a unanimous final investment decision to construct a 1.8-million metric ton (m.t.) methanol plant in Geismar, Louisiana adjacent to its existing Geismar 1 and Geismar 2 facilities.…
Axalta Coating Systems (Philadelphia, Pa.; www.axaltacs.com) announced the expansion of its Landshut, Germany, site, creating a second production facility in the region for bonded metallic powder coatings alongside Axalta’s Montbrison plant in France. The second production facility will enable Axalta…
Abengoa S.A. (Seville, Spain; www.abengoa.com) has inaugurated together with its partner Fisia Italiampianti a reverse osmosis desalination plant in the Shuaibah complex, in Saudi Arabia. The Project is the largest desalination plant built by Abengoa to date, with a capacity…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is increasing production capacity for Tinopal CBS optical brighteners at the company's Monthey site in Switzerland. A double-digit million euro investment in existing plants will be used to increase capacity stepwise until 2022. The first…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) has signed an agreement with respect to the sale of its Healthcare Packaging business to a newly-formed affiliate of Arsenal Capital Partners. The total consideration of the sale amounts to approximately CHF 308 million payable at…