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Versalis to acquire compounding firm Finnproject

Versalis S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese), Eni’s chemical company, announced that it has exercised the call option to buy the remaining 60% of the shares of the Marche-region-based industrial group Finproject, an Italian leader in the compounding sector and in the…

Kraton to be acquired by Korean firm DL Chemical

Kraton Corp. (Houston) announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which DL Chemical Co., Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea), a subsidiary of DL Holdings Co., Ltd. (formerly Daelim Industrial Co., Ltd.), will acquire 100% of Kraton…

GTI launches Veritas, an initiative to measure methane emission reductions

Today, GTI (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.gti.energy) launched Veritas: a GTI Differentiated Gas Measurement and Verification Initiative to accelerate actions that reduce methane leakage from natural gas systems. The effort brings together scientists, academics, environmental organizations, certification organizations, and industry participants…

Gevo to acquire isobutanol patent slate from Butamax

Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) has entered into an asset purchase agreement with Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC and its affiliate, Danisco US Inc., to acquire certain patents, leaving Gevo as the only entity with full rights to sublicense the entire Gevo/Butamax…

Univar Solutions and Novozymes to provide biological solutions for waste and wastewater treatment

Univar Solutions Inc. (Downers Grove, Ill.), a global chemical and ingredient distributor and provider of value-added services, announced a new agreement with Novozymes A/S (Copenhagen, Denmark), expanding its relationship to include biological solutions for for waste and wastewater treatment in…

Lummus awarded technology contract for new diphenyl carbonate plant in China

Lummus Technology (Houston) announced it has been awarded a technology contract by Zhangzhou CHIMEI Chemical Co., a subsidiary of CHIMEI Corp. of Taiwan, for a grassroots diphenyl carbonate (DPC) plant in Fujian Province, China. Zhangzhou CHIMEI will build a new…

Merck opens new production unit for silica-based pigments in Germany

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany has opened a second production line for silica-based effect pigments in Gernsheim, Germany. Around 750 employees work at this site, which is home Merck’s largest pigment production facility worldwide. With this investment, Merck  will significantly increase…

Eni and CLG enter collaboration to license residual hydrocracking technologies

Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) and Chevron Lummus Global LLC, (CLG) announced the execution of a Joint Cooperation and Licensing Agreement for a complete suite of residue hydrocracking solutions. This will include Eni's EST (Eni Slurry Technology) and LC-FINING, LC-MAX, LC-SLURRY…

Huntsman announces specialty amines expansion project

Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.) announced that its Performance Products division has completed the initial phases of a project to expand and widen its portfolio of E-GRADE specialty amines, including quaternary amine alternatives to tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH) and related products…

BASF and CATL collaborate on battery materials, recycling

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL) announced a strategic partnership on battery materials solutions, including cathode active materials (CAM) and battery recycling. The collaboration aims at developing a sustainable battery value chain, in support of…