Tosoh Corp. (Tokyo) has announced it will increase the production capacity of separation and purification media TOYOPEARL and TSKgel PW at its Nanyo Complex (Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture) in response to the growing demand for antibody and oligonucleotide drug purification.…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that BASF Coatings (Guangdong) Co., Ltd. (BCG) has expanded the production capacity of automotive refinish coatings at its coatings site in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province in South China. With the completion of the expansion in July…
INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany) has entered into an agreement for the sale of its entire shareholding interest in INEOS Styrolution India to Shiva Performance Materials. Shiva Performance Materials Private Limited is part of the Shiva Group, which has businesses in specialty…
Knight Material Technologies (KMT; Canton, Ohio) has acquired Electro Chemical Engineering and Manufacturing Co. (EC) located in Emmaus, PA. KMT is a leading service provider and manufacturer in the corrosion-resistant materials industry, and EC is a leader in high-performance fluoropolymer-lined…
Valvoline Inc. (Lexington, Ky.) has reached a definitive agreement with The Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco; Dhahran) for the sale of Valvoline's Global Products business for $2.65 billion in cash. Valvoline Global Products is a leading worldwide independent producer and…
Bp plc (London) unveiled plans to invest up to £50 million (around $60 million) in a new, state-of-the-art electric vehicle (EV) battery testing center and analytical laboratory in the UK. bp has previously announced its intention to invest up to…
The Mitsubishi Chemical Group（MCG）has decided to increase its annual production capacity of SoarnoL ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVOH) resin by 21,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) in the U.K. at MCG’s site in Saltend. Once construction begins in April 2023,…
Indorama Ventures Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand) has entered into a non-binding agreement with Capchem Technology USA Inc. (Capchem USA) to study the opportunity to build and operate a world-class lithium-ion battery (LIB) solvents plant at one of IVL's petrochemical facilities…
Heat transfer fluids (HTFs) provide heating and cooling of process equipment, including reactors, autoclaves, distillation columns, reboilers, mixers and dryers. HTF system designs should provide for effective system venting, both of residual water at startup and of degradation products during…
Transparent polymer film started with an accident . . . and spurred a packaging revolution One night in Paris, in 1900, Swiss chemist Jacques Brandenberger was enjoying dinner in a restaurant when he noticed that a fellow patron had spilled…