Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) announced plans to increase regular-tow carbon-fiber production capacity at two facilities. Capital investments will add lines to the Spartanburg plant in South Carolina, USA of Toray Composite Materials America, Inc. and the Gumi plant in Gyeongsangbuk-do,…
MilliporeSigma, the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt Germany, announced the $25-million expansion of its facility in Lenexa, Kansas, adding 98,000 square feet of lab space and production capability to manufacture cell culture media. “The Lenexa…
Sika AG (Baar, Switzerland) has acquired Thiessen Team USA, a US manufacturer of shotcrete and grouting products for the mining industry in the USA. The company serves the Western US mining industry which produces essential minerals for the growing electric…
3M (St. Paul, Minn.) says that its Brookings, S.D., plant is poised to expand, with 3M investing up to $468 million over the next three years. “3M is proud to have been a part of the growing community of Brookings…
Stamicarbon BV (Sittard, the Netherlands), nitrogen technology licensor of MAIRE Group, continues to consolidate its presence in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following last year's award of a license and process design package (PDP) contracts to design a 4000 MTPD melt and granulation…
Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) has been awarded a major award by Euro Manganese to deliver a unique mineral project critical to the energy transition. This cost-reimbursable contract will be delivered by Wood’s Projects business unit and is in line with…
LyondellBasell Industries (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced that PetroChina Guangxi Petrochemical Company will license the LyondellBasell polyethylene technology at their facility located in Qinzhou City, Guangxi, P.R. of China. The newly licensed technology will comprise of the LyondellBasell leading high-pressure Lupotech…
Airgas, an Air Liquide company and a leading U.S. supplier of industrial, medical and specialty gases, safety and welding products, has installed two strategically located argon storage nodes to further strengthen the argon supply chain for its customers, who use…
Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London), a global leader in sustainable technologies, has signed an investment agreement with the Jiading District in Shanghai to help accelerate the hydrogen economy in China. At a signing ceremony in Sonning, UK today, JM and…
Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has entered into a strategic partnership with Canadian mineral development company Avalon Advanced Material, to establish terms to develop a lithium hydroxide production facility. The facility will process lithium mineral concentrates that are essential for the…