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Thermo Fisher Scientific acquires protein manufacturer PeproTech for $1.85 billion

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, Mass.) and PeproTech, Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of recombinant proteins, today announced that Thermo Fisher completed its acquisition of PeproTech on December 30, 2021 for a total cash purchase price of approximately $1.85 billion. Based…

Ineos’ U.S. subsidiary finalizes acquisition of PE pipe manufacturer

WL Plastics Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of INEOS USA LLC d/b/a INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA, has completed the acquisition of the polyethylene pipe extrusion assets of Charter Plastics, Inc. located in Titusville, Pennsylvania. This strategic acquisition provides the…

Johnson Matthey launches new production technology for sustainable aviation fuel

Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) has launched an innovative technology –HyCOgen – designed to play a pivotal role in enabling the conversion of captured carbon dioxide (CO2) and green hydrogen into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). By combining HyCOgen with the…

Clariant completes sale of Pigments business

Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland) completed the sale of its Pigments business to a consortium of Heubach Group (Heubach) and SK Capital Partners (SK Capital). As announced upon signing of the transaction, the base enterprise value of the sale amounts to…

Cargill to acquire Croda’s performance technologies and industrial chemicals business assets

Cargill, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minn.) reached an agreement with Croda International Plc (Snaith, U.K.) to acquire the majority of its performance technologies and industrial chemicals business for EUR 915,000,000 ($ 1.03 billion) on a cash-free, debt-free basis. The investment would dramatically expand Cargill’s…

Metso Outotec divests Metal Recycling business

Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has signed an agreement to divest its Metal Recycling business line to an affiliate of Mimir, an investment company based in Stockholm, Sweden. The closing of the transaction is expected to take place during the…

DuPont Clean Technologies rebrands as Elessent following acquisition

A new company - Elessent Clean Technologies - has launched, as an international private equity consortium, consisting of BroadPeak Global LP, Asia Green Fund (AGF) and The Saudi Arabian Industrial Investments Company (Dussur), completed its transaction to purchase the Clean…

SK Geo Centric and Tokuyama form isopropyl alcohol JV

SK Geo Centric (SKGC), a subsidiary of SK Innovation (Seoul, South Korea) and Tokuyama Corp. (Tokyo) plan to invest roughly KRW 120 billion (around $100 million) in a joint venture (JV) in Ulsan, Korea. The JV will produce and sell…

Reliance acquires sodium-ion battery specialist Faradion

Reliance New Energy Solar Ltd (RNESL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd (Mumbai), has signed definitive agreements to acquire 100% shareholding in Faradion Ltd. (Sheffield, U.K.) for an enterprise value of £100 million. In addition, RNESL will also…

Eneos and PFN achieve breakthrough in autonomous plant operation

ENEOS Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) and Preferred Networks, Inc. (PFN) announced that they have succeeded in operating a butadiene extraction unit autonomously at ENEOS Kawasaki Refinery's petrochemical plant for two consecutive days using a new artificial intelligence system. Jointly developed by…