Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) announced that wholly owned subsidiary Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc. will increase annual production capacity for TORELINA polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) resin by 5,000 metric tons at a plant in Gunsan, South Korea, from December 2024. The…
Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.) announced it has acquired Ai-Red Technology (Dalian) Co., Ltd., a manufacturer and supplier of paint protection and window film for auto and architectural markets in the Asia Pacific region. This acquisition demonstrates Eastman’s commitment to…
Orbia’s Fluorinated Solutions business Koura announced that it has signed a technology licensing agreement with Kanto Denka Kogyo for lithium hexafluorophoshate (LiPF6), a critical lithium-ion battery material. The agreement provides Koura with access to Kanto Denka Kogyo’s world-class technology and…
Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) will install a new recycled plastics production line (Reciclex range) with a capacity to manufacture 25,000 tons per year at its Puertollano Industrial Complex, making this center a benchmark for the circular economy in the Iberian…
Elkem ASA (Oslo, Norway) has decided to invest around NOK 200 million (around $20 million) to increase its production capacity in Brazil for pitch, a raw material for electrode paste to industrial smelters. The investment is based on well-known technology…
Evonik Industries (Essen, Germany) has invested €25 million developing and expanding its methylmercapto-propionaldehyde (MMP) production plant in Wesseling, Germany, in the latest move to strengthen its world-scale global methionine production network. MMP is integral in the production of MetAMINO (DL-methionine)…
The Board of Directors of Blue-White Industries (Huntington Beach, Calif.) elected two new officers in their 2023 First Quarter Meeting. The Board voted Unanimously to appoint Bill McDowell to the position of Chief Operating Officer, and Patrick Murphy as Vice…
For the first time, a quantum-computing-inspired tool has been used for catalyst discovery — specifically for the investigation of a new catalyst for the production of hydrogen via electrolysis. Created jointly by scientists from Fujitsu Ltd. (Tokyo; www.fujitsu.com) and the…
Blue Planet Systems (Los Gatos, Calif.; www.blueplanetsystems.com) and Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzer.com) have announced a partnership to accelerate development of Blue Planet’s process for mineralizing carbon dioxide gas into construction aggregate for concrete. By sequestering CO2 into the…
Production of ammonia by the Haber-Bosch process not only requires a lot of energy for the high-temperature (300–500°C) synthesis of NH3 itself, but the recovery of ammonia takes place by condensation at –20°C. As a result, large changes in both…