Milliken & Co. (Spartanburg, S.C.) has formally acquired Encapsys, LLC, a world leader in microencapsulation, from the Cypress Performance Group LLC (“Cypress”). The transaction officially closed October 18, 2021. “Moving the needle on sustainability requires big thinking and powerful collaborations.…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) announced several investment efforts to advance its work to develop the next-generation of solid-state electrolytes for batteries. On the ground, investments started with the opening earlier this year of a dry room laboratory in Solvay’s research center near…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland) announced the official completion of its sunliquid cellulosic ethanol plant in Podari, Romania. The completed construction is an important next step for the commercial deployment of sunliquid technology and thus supports Clariant’s sunliquid licensing business strategy. The…
Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has signed an agreement with the Canadian battery materials company First Cobalt Corporation to deliver Planet Positive solvent extraction technology to their cobalt refinery expansion in Ontario. The value of the order is approximately EUR 10 million,…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced today it has been awarded a dual-pressure nitric acid technology contract by Hanwha Corp. for its new plant at Yeosu, South Korea. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide license, basic engineering design, and…
MilliporeSigma, the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, announced the opening of its second Carlsbad, California-based facility, significantly expanding its global CDMO footprint. This new $110 million, 140,000-square foot facility will more than double the company’s existing…
The joint venture between Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) and the Chinese company Wynca - Evonik Wynca (Zhenjiang) Silicon Material Co., Ltd. is starting up its new fumed-silica plant. Located in the Zhenjiang New Material Industry Park in Jiangsu province,…
ANGUS Chemical Co. (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), a global manufacturer and marketer of specialty ingredients and consumables for biotechnology, pharmaceutical, consumer and industrial applications, announced plans to expand U.S. production capacity for its complete portfolio of TRIS AMINO tromethamine buffers. ANGUS…
Ingevity Corp. (North Charleston, W.V.) announced that it will increase caprolactone monomer capacity at its facility in Warrington, U.K., through a series of optimization projects over the next 12 months that are expected to increase Ingevity’s global monomer production capacity…
BASF Petronas Chemicals Sdn Bhd (BPC), a joint venture between BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), intends to expand the production capacity of 2-Ethylhexanoic Acid (2-EHA) from 30,000 to 60,000 metric tons per…