UBE Corp. (Tokyo) has agreed to acquire all shares of API Corp. (APIC), wholly owned by Life Science Institute, Inc., a company of The Mitsubishi Chemical Group(MCG), and signed a share transfer agreement. APIC was established in October 2002 through…
To meet increasing global demand for cell culture media used in the manufacturing of new vaccines and biologics, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, Mass.) has expanded its dry-powder-media manufacturing facility in Grand Island, New York. With this expansion, the Grand…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has announced that it will produce more N-(2-Hydroxyethyl)-2-Pyrrolidone (HEP) and N-Octyl-2-Pyrrolidone (NOP) at its Geismar, Louisiana, Verbund site. The production is anticipated to be on-stream in the second half of 2022 and will ensure a global…
Tosoh Corp. (Tokyo) has announced it will increase the production capacity of separation and purification media TOYOPEARL and TSKgel PW at its Nanyo Complex (Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture) in response to the growing demand for antibody and oligonucleotide drug purification.…
Sasol Chemicals, a business unit of Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa), will deploy innovative, AI-driven technology at its Ethylene Unit at its Lake Charles Chemical Complex in Louisiana to measure and monitor energy usage and emissions to identify opportunities to…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that BASF Coatings (Guangdong) Co., Ltd. (BCG) has expanded the production capacity of automotive refinish coatings at its coatings site in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province in South China. With the completion of the expansion in July…
INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany) has entered into an agreement for the sale of its entire shareholding interest in INEOS Styrolution India to Shiva Performance Materials. Shiva Performance Materials Private Limited is part of the Shiva Group, which has businesses in specialty…
Knight Material Technologies (KMT; Canton, Ohio) has acquired Electro Chemical Engineering and Manufacturing Co. (EC) located in Emmaus, PA. KMT is a leading service provider and manufacturer in the corrosion-resistant materials industry, and EC is a leader in high-performance fluoropolymer-lined…
Cepsa Quimica (Madrid, Spain) and Ohmium International (Bangalore, India), a company specialized in the design, manufacture, and deployment of PEM electrolyzers, have announced an agreement to develop highly efficient green hydrogen projects in the Iberian Peninsula. The companies will collaborate to…
Valvoline Inc. (Lexington, Ky.) has reached a definitive agreement with The Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco; Dhahran) for the sale of Valvoline's Global Products business for $2.65 billion in cash. Valvoline Global Products is a leading worldwide independent producer and…