The specialty chemicals group Altana (Wesel, Germany; www.altana.com) has announced the grand opening of a plant for its additives subsidiary BYK USA Inc. The expanded facility is located in Wallingford, Conn. With this plant, BYK more than doubles production capacity…
Enerkem (Montreal, Canada; www.enerkem.com) has inaugurated its first full-scale municipal waste-to-biofuels and chemicals facility in Edmonton, Alberta. “Our breakthrough technology uses garbage instead of fossil sources for the production of chemicals and liquid transportation fuels. We are proud of…
Sustainable glycol technologies company GlyEco, Inc. (Phoenix, Ariz.; www.glyeco.com) has completed significant upgrades at its New Jersey glycol processing center to meet higher than anticipated customer demand for its refinery-grade recycled glycol, which it began producing at the facility in…
A. Schulman, Inc. (Akron, Ohio; www.aschulman.com) has announced an agreement to purchase a selected majority of the assets of the Specialty Plastics business segment from Ferro Corp. Ferro’s Specialty Plastics business segment develops high-quality specialty compounds, colors and coatings. When…
Malvern Instruments Ltd. (Malvern, UK; www.malvernpanalytical.com/en) has announced that it has entered into an agreement with GE Healthcare Life Sciences to acquire the company’s MicroCal microcalorimetry business. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition, which is subject to regulatory approvals, is…
Siluria Technologies (San Francisco, Calif.; www.siluria.com) and The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) have announced that they have entered into a collaboration agreement. The primary objective of the agreement is to combine the respective company’s technologies and expertise into an…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is expanding its production capacity for dispersible polymer powders in Germany. The Munich-based chemical company is currently building a new spray dryer with a capacity of 50,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) at its…
Ineos Technologies (Rolle, Switzerland; www.ineos.com) has announced that it has licensed its INEOS EPS process technology for the manufacture of regular and flame-retardant expandable polystyrene (EPS) to EPS Qatar at a new complex to be built in the Doha region,…
Solazyme, Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.; www.solazyme.com), a renewable oil and bioproducts company, today announced that its joint venture with Bunge Global Innovation LLC (“Bunge”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bunge Ltd. (White Plains, N.Y.; www.bunge.com), has successfully produced its first…
Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) has announced that it has signed an agreement with Siemens Fuel Gasification Technology to cooperate in the commercialization of a new, jointly developed sour-gas shift (SGS) technology for coal gasification. The agreement appoints Clariant as…