Nippon Shokubai Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) announced that it will expand its production facilities with an additional 10,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of production capacity for LiFSI (lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide, trade name: IONEL), a lithium salt used as an electrolyte for…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that its Aroma Ingredients business unit has launched three newly built world-scale plants – menthol and linalool in Ludwigshafen, Germany, and citral in Zhanjiang, China. This announcement follows the inauguration ceremony of BASF’s Zhanjiang Verbund…
Guangdong Liquid Sunshine has selected Johnson Matthey (JM; London) as a technology partner for its first commercial-scale project - a biomethanol plant planned in Tiandong County, Guangxi. The two companies, alongside the East China Engineering Science and Technology Co. (ECEC),…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced plans to build, own and operate a new air separation unit (ASU) in the City of Cocoa, Florida. The ASU will produce liquid oxygen, nitrogen and argon. The plant is targeted to be on…
Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) has signed with Eni Industrial Evolution the main contract for the realization of the new Priolo biorefinery in Sicily, a project announced on February 3 by Eni and Q8 Italia. The contract, which has…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) is investing around €80 million to expand its biotechnology capabilities at its Fermas site in Slovenská Ľupča, Slovakia. The investment will add state-of-the-art downstream fermentation technology to support the contract manufacturing services of the group’s…
CitroTech Inc. (Oceanside, Calif.) and Hexion Inc. (Columbus, Ohio) announced the formation of a 50/50 joint venture (JV). Through this partnership, the companies will deploy next-generation fire-retardant solutions for the lumber and building materials industry, helping plywood, oriented strand board…
Ineos Inovyn (London, U.K.) has signed an agreement for the sale of its shares in INOVYN Produzione Italia SpA, which operates the Rosignano and Tavazzano sites in Italy, to Esseco Industrial. The Rosignano and Tavazzano sites in Italy produce essential…
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) announced that DuPont™ Cyrel® Flexographic Solutions, one of the world’s leading flexographic platemaking systems providers, opened its state-of the-art Customer Technology Center (CTC) at the DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington. The new site reflects the Cyrel® business’…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) is strengthening its leadership in plastic additive solutions by expanding its production capacities for both standard and NOR HALS plastics additives products. These investments support the growing global demand for high-performance plastics and ensure reliable supply…