Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) has signed a 10-year Corporate Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Falck Renewables S.p.A for the development of a solar project in the region of Puglia, Italy. The new solar plant project will have a capacity of…
Worley (North Sydney, Australia) has been awarded an early engineering services contract by Shell (The Hague, the Netherlands) to support the development of a new 200-megawatt electrolysis-based hydrogen plant. Once complete, the project will be one of the largest commercial…
Infrastructure company Roelofs has begun the construction of the world’s first test road made from bio-asphalt using lignin produced by Avantium N.V. (Amsterdam. The Netherlands). The fully plant-based lignin is used as a substitute for bitumen in asphalt, which is…
Perstorp AB (Malmö, Sweden) will substantially expand its production capacity of 2-Ethylhexanoic Acid (2-EHA) beginning in 2022, to meet increasing market needs. The investment and expansion are within the framework of Perstorp’s existing production plants and implementation has already started.…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) concluded the sale of its manufacturing site in Kankakee, Illinois, to an affiliate of One Rock Capital Partners, LLC, a U.S.-based private equity firm. The agreement also includes the associated businesses of vegetable-oil-based raw material sterols…
W. R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.) announced the completion of its acquisition of the Fine Chemistry Services business (FCS) of Albemarle Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.) for approximately $570 million, including $300 million paid in cash and $270 million funded through…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) has started to build a liquid resins unit at its Nünchritz, Germany site. This unit will supply key upstream products for formulating silicone-based building-protection agents and binders for exterior paints and industrial coatings. At the…
Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) and Progressive Energy Limited have announced the signing of a framework agreement to further accelerate carbon capture and storage (CCS) within the HyNet North West low carbon cluster project. Under the agreement, Eni will develop and…
Saint-Gobain (Courbevoie, France) announces the sale of Saint-Gobain Glassolutions Objekt-Center, which specializes in glass processing operations as part of the Glassolutions network in Germany, to the German privately-owned AEQUITA group based in Munich. This sale concerns twosites: Döring Berlin and…
BASF Japan and Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) have started a collaborative study to promote chemical recycling in Japan. Through cooperation across the value chain, BASF and Mitsui Chemicals will evaluate collaborative business models and various options to commercialize chemical recycling…