Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) has entered into exclusive negotiations with Safran Aerosystems for the sale of its oxygen and nitrogen aerospace technology activities, excluding marine-related cryogenic activities. Air Liquide's oxygen and nitrogen aerospace technology activities have been developed since 1983…
Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland) announced it has completed the divestment of its global Quats business to Global Amines Company Pte. Ltd., a 50/50 joint venture owned by Clariant and Wilmar, Asia’s leading agricultural business and oleochemicals business globally. The transaction…
3M (St. Paul, Minn.) announced it will invest $146 million to expand its capabilities to further support biotech manufacturing, a fast-growing area of health care which is bringing breakthrough therapies to patients. The investment will include facility and equipment improvements…
Air Liquide SA (Paris) announces that it has invested nearly $70 million in state-of-the-art plants in North Texas to supply ultra high purity nitrogen and oxygen to the electronics industry. These investments will support the expansion of two existing manufacturing…
The Chemours Co. (Wilmington, Del.) has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Glycolic Acid business for $137 million in cash to PureTech Scientific Inc., a company founded and backed by Iron Path Capital, a private equity firm focused…
PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.) announced that it has inaugurated a battery pack application center (BPAC) in Tianjin, China. The $30-million facility features a full range of capabilities to test the application of PPG coatings technologies, materials and systems for electric vehicle…
Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany announced a three-year collaboration with the research group of John Hartwig at University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California. The primary focus of this collaboration between the public research institutes associated with…
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) announced that its marketing & sales subsidiary, Toray Resins Europe GmbH (TREU) has established a recycling process for glass-fiber-reinforced polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) resin waste from injection molding processes. TREU created its process by leveraging proprietary compounding…
MAIRE S.p.A. announces that its subsidiary KT-Kinetics Technology (KT), part of the Integrated E&C Solutions (IE&CS) business unit, has been awarded the early engineering works for the realization of a new green fertilizer complex in North America by a group…
Par Pacific Holdings, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has successfully closed its previously announced acquisition of the Billings refinery and associated marketing and logistics assets from ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.) and two of its subsidiaries. The base purchase price of…