Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland; www.neste.com) is collaborating with IKEA to utilize renewable residue and waste raw materials, such as used cooking oil, as well as sustainably-produced vegetable oils in the production of plastic products. The pilot project at commercial scale…
DuPont Industrial Biosciences (IB; www.biosciences.dupont.com) officially opened the doors of its renovated global business headquarters in Wilmington, Del. This new center of technological innovation, known as Building E353, is part of DuPont’s Experimental Station. The researchers, business teams and cutting-edge…
Baltic Gas Chemical Co., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering (MHI; Tokyo; www.mhi.com) and Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) have signed a tripartite license agreement for a methanol plant project in Ust-Luga, Russia. The plant, with a planned capacity of 1.7…
Carbon recycling company, LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.; www.lanzatech.com), and its joint venture partner, Shougang Group, a leading Chinese iron and steel producer, have announced the successful startup of the world’s first commercial facility converting industrial emissions to sustainable ethanol. The facility,…
To support the strong worldwide demand in ultra-high performing powders for industrial applications, in particular in the coatings, composite and 3D printing markets, Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) plans to expand its global production capacity at its Mont, France site. This…
INEOS Oxide (Rolle Switzerland; www.ineos.com) announced that, following a detailed study, it is moving forward with the next stage of its project to construct an Ethylene Oxide (EO) and Ethylene Oxide Derivatives (EOD) facility on the U.S. Gulf Coast. It…
Borealis (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) announced the inauguration of a Є15 million investment project in mtm plastics GmbH. Based in Niedergebra, Germany, mtm plastics GmbH is regarded as a technology leader in the recycling of mixed post-consumer plastic waste and as…
DuPont Safety & Construction, a business unit of DowDuPont’s (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) Specialty Products Division, announced plans to invest more than $400 million to expand capacity for the manufacture of Tyvek nonwoven materials at its facility in Luxembourg. The production…
Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.hitachi-chem.co.jp) and Wisconsin-based Silatronix, Inc. have entered into a licensing agreement concerning the manufacturing, sales and use of Silatronix’s patented organosilicon compounds for use as electrolyte materials. By combining electrolyte using Silatronix’s organosilicon compounds…
INEOS (Rolle, Switzerland; www.ineos.com) announces that it has launched a feasibility study as it plans to build a new world-scale Ethylidene norbornene (ENB) production unit. This would represent a second ENB asset for INEOS joining the existing production unit in…