The Busch Group (Maulburg, Germany) has announced the death of its co-founder and co-owner Dr. Karl Busch, who died on July 17, 2025, at the age of 96. The engineer, inventor and entrepreneur was born on April 20, 1929, in…
TotalEnergies SE (Paris) and Emerson’s Aspen Technology business have announced a strategic collaboration to deploy advanced digital technologies for the continuous, real-time collection of data from TotalEnergies’ industrial sites. The objective is to harness the value of that data to…
LanzaTech Global, Inc. (Skokie, Ill.) announced it has received a grant of £6.4 million from the UK government's Advanced Fuels Fund (AFF), operated by the Department for Transport (DfT). The grant will accelerate the development of LanzaTech’s DRAGON 1 & 2…
AGC Inc. (Tokyo) announced that it has reached an agreement with Sumitomo Bakelite Co. (Tokyo) to transfer its polycarbonate business. AGC's polycarbonate business offers an extensive lineup in a wide range of fields that include industry and electronics in addition…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has reached a major construction milestone at the Zhanjiang Verbund site with the successful mechanical completion of the first batch of plants in the acrylics complex, including the glacial acrylic acid (GAA) and butyl acrylate (BA)…
INEOS Ltd. (London) has completed a major £30-million investment at its Hull manufacturing site, converting the facility to run on hydrogen instead of natural gas, resulting in a 75% cut in carbon emissions. The investment is part of INEOS’ wider…
Linde plc (Dublin, Ireland) has announced ambitious new investments into the commercial space-launch sector. With two new long-term agreements to supply bulk industrial gases for rocket launches, Linde is strengthening its leadership in the rapidly expanding U.S. space industry. As…
Air Liquide S.A. (Paris, France) has successfully started up a new plant in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. This Molybdenum manufacturing plant, the largest in the world, will supply leading semiconductor customers with its breakthrough advanced materials portfoilo, SubleemTM. The…
Freepoint Eco-Systems International Ltd. (Stamford, Conn.) and Source One GmbH (Leiferde, Germany) have agreed to enter into a long-term collaboration agreement to develop multiple pretreatment facilities to treat waste streams, such as post-consumer waste (PCR), to support the growth of…
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) announced that it has supplied reverse osmosis (RO) membranes to the Shuaibah 3 IWP seawater desalination plant in Saudi Arabia through Dammam-based subsidiary Toray Membrane Middle East LLC. The Plant’s daily potable water production capacity is…