Mitsubishi Corp. (MC; Tokyo) has agreed to acquire shares in e-scrap recycling company DEScycle Ltd. (Headquarters: UK), which has developed a proprietary technology for metal recovery from e-scrap. The two companies will also enter into a strategic business partnership to…
Fujifilm Corp. (Tokyo) announced that its Life Sciences Group companies will be adopting new names and identities as part of a strategic positioning effort. The Group Companies’ new names, collaborative strategic focus, and structural alignment reflects Fujifilm’s commitment to Life…
Sanofi S.A. (Paris, France) and Blueprint Medicines Corp. (Blueprint), a U.S.-based, publicly traded biopharmaceutical company specializing in systemic mastocytosis (SM), a rare immunological disease, and other KIT-driven diseases, have entered into an agreement under which Sanofi will acquire Blueprint. The…
Amyris, Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.) announced that it has acquired Ingredion's 31% stake in the RealSweet Joint Venture to take full ownership of the industrial precision fermentation plant in Barra Bonita, Brazil. This follows an agreement with Ingredion to wind down their…
Premix Group, a global leader in electrically conductive plastics, announced the opening of its state-of-the-art US manufacturing facility in Apple Creek, North Carolina. With a $79 Million investment from the Department of Defense (DoD) and Health and Human Services (HHS),…
Saint-Gobain Glass has forged a new partnership with VEKA Recycling that represents a major advancement in sustainable construction and post-consumer glass recycling in the U.K. fenestration industry. Saint-Gobain has also been bolstering its glass-recycling capabilities in the U.S. with projects…
Dow Inc. (Midland, Mich.) announced that it has signed a sale and purchase agreement to sell its 50% interest in DowAksa Advanced Composites Holdings BV (DowAksa) to Turkish chemicals firm Aksa Akrilik Kimya Sanayii A.Ş., a company of Akkök Holding.…
A proprietary molten-salt electrolysis (MSE) process originally designed for battery manufacturing has now been re-optimized for North America’s first operational cobalt-refining plant. The DirectPlateTM MSE technology developed by Xerion Advanced Battery Corp. (Kettering, Ohio; www.xerionbattery.com; see Direct molten-salt electroplating cuts…
Safe and cost-effective storage represents one of the major hurdles in the widespread adoption of “clean” hydrogen in energy applications. A hydrogen-storage approach called cryo-compression is being poised as a bridge between high-density (but expensive) hydrogen liquefaction and cheaper (but…
The ability to economically produce large scales of graphene will help to enable many high-performance applications, from smart packaging materials and medical devices to safer gas storage. A new process demonstrated at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI; San Antonio, Tex.; www.swri.org)…