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DuPont starts up new elastomer plant in Delaware

DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) announced the official opening of its new DuPont Kalrez manufacturing site in Newark, Delaware to meet growing global customer demand from the semiconductor and industrials sectors. The new facility, the Tralee Park Annex, was officially inaugurated with…

Solvay and Orbia progress plans for new PVDF facility in Georgia

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium)  confirms its plans to build a new battery-grade PVDF facility in Augusta, Georgia. With more than half of U.S. car sales projected to be electric by 2030, the U.S. produced PVDF - a thermoplastic fluoropolymer -…

Henkel acquires Critica Infrastructure

Henkel AG (Düsseldorf, Germany) has acquired the U.S.-based firm Critica Infrastructure (“Critica”), a specialized supplier of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) composite solutions for the world’s most critical infrastructure such as oil and gas transmission as well as municipal water…

BASF invests in U.S. startup firm 3Helix Inc. to bolster personal-care products

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and 3Helix Inc., a U.S.-based technology startup, announce their innovation partnership on 3Helix’s proprietary Collagen Hybridizing Peptide (CHP) technology. The partnership involves an equity investment and licensing agreement, granting BASF exclusive rights to commercialize CHP solutions…

Grace expands operating Unipol PP technology capacity in China with Oriental Energy

W.R. Grace & Co (Grace; Columbia, Md.) announced that Oriental Energy Co. Ltd. (Oriental Energy) has started up a new plant with Grace’s UNIPOL  PP Process Technology. Located in Maoming, China, the new 400,000-ton/yr reactor line began producing high-quality homopolymers…

Lummus Technology licensing olefins, cumene and phenol technologies to Haldia Petrochemicals

Lummus Technology (Houston) announced Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd. (HPL) will license its olefins conversion technology (OCT) and the Lummus/Versalis cumene and phenol technologies for a new plant in West Bengal, India. Once HPL's plant is complete, it will be India's largest cumene…

Veolia acquires waste-handling and recycling firm in the U.S.

Veolia North America announced that it has completed the acquisition of U.S. Industrial Technologies, a Michigan-based provider of total waste and recycling services that has managed industrial waste streams for automakers as well as other large manufacturers, medium and small…

Dow and Evonik start up hydrogen peroxide to propylene glycol pilot plant

Dow (Midland, Mich.) and Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany)  announced the successful start-up and operation of a pioneering hydrogen peroxide to propylene glycol (HPPG) pilot plant at Evonik’s site in Hanau, Germany. Collaboratively developed by Dow, the world’s largest producer…

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The first H2-fired low-NOx burner for traveling-grate pelletizing plants

Last month, Metso Corp. (Espoo, Finland; www.mogroup.com) introduced a hydrogen-variant of its Ferroflame LowNOx burners as part of its NextGen Pelletizing plant product range. It is a first-of-its-kind burner to run on H2 and to operate on the LowNOx combustion…

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Business News: November 2023

Plant Watch BASF to build a new fermentation plant in Ludwigshafen October 12, 2023 — BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is investing in a new fermentation plant for biological crop-protection products, such as fungicides, insecticides and seed treatments, at its…