Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) has completed the acquisition of the business and related assets of Clear Water Technologies, LLC, a privately-owned company based in California. The transaction strengthens Kemira’s position in North America and supports its growth in industrial water…
Westlake Corp. (Houston)announced that its German subsidiary, Westlake Vinnolit GmbH & Co. KG, has completed the previously-announced acquisition of a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) production site located in Wilhelmshaven, Germany. The Wilhelmshaven plant, which was previously…
Teijin Frontier Co., Ltd., part of the Teijin Group, today announced plans to install new equipment for manufacturing OCTAIR™ polyester insulation fiber at its Matsuyama Plant in Ehime Prefecture. This new equipment represents an investment of several hundred million yen.…
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.) and ink and coating manufacturer Siegwerk (Siegburg, Germany) announced a collaboration to supply more sustainable solutions in the printing ink value chain through utilizing bio-based ethyl acetate manufactured by Celanese. The ethyl acetate produced by Celanese…
The Lubrizol Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio) and Grasim Industries Ltd. (Mumbai, India) have inaugurated a state-of-art Chlorinated Polyvinyl Chloride (CPVC) resin manufacturing facility’s Phase 1 annual production capacity of 50,000 metric tons at Grasim’s Chlor alkali complex in Vilayat, Gujarat, India.…
Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.) announced it has acquired the brand and certain assets related to the Jarylec™ dielectric fluids business from Arkema S.A. (Paris la Defense, France). The acquisition includes key trademarks, customer list, technical documentation and intellectual property…
Olin Corp. (Clayton, Mo.) and Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.) announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to combine in an all-stock merger of equals to create a leading North American chemicals company. The transaction is expected to generate…
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) announced that a MemCor™ membrane bioreactor (MBR) system has been selected as part of the next phase of upgrades at the Riverstone Water Resource Recovery Facility (WRRF) in Sydney, Australia, marking a significant wastewater infrastructure investment in…
Saint-Gobain S.A. (Courbevoie, France) has signed a binding agreement for the sale of its specialist distribution business in Sweden, Norway and Denmark under the main brand Dahl to Kesko – a leading Northern European trading sector company. With sales of…
Schneider Electric (Paris) and Canadian rare-earths specialist Torngat Metals announced the signature of a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore a strategic industrial partnership to support the development of a resilient and responsible rare-earth value chain. The partnership is…