Advancion Corp. (Buffalo Grove, Ill.) announced the expansion of its U.S.-based manufacturing capabilities with the commercial launch of MOPS buffer produced at its Sterlington, Louisiana facility. MOPS (3-(N-morpholino)propanesulfonic acid) is a zwitterionic biological buffer commonly used in cell culture and…
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) and Ketjen Netherlands Holdings B.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) have entered into a share purchase agreement for Nippon Aluminum Alkyls Ltd. (NAA), a company engaged in the manufacturing and sales of organometallic compounds such as alkyl aluminum.…
Battery material manufacturer ACT-ion Battery Technologies, Inc. (Dallas) announced it has signed a lease for a new facility at 1200 Tappan Circle in Carrollton, Texas. This site will house a state-of-the-art pilot plant dedicated to scaling its clean high-throughput manufacturing…
Niron Magnetics (Minneapolis, Minn.) has broken ground on a new state-of-the-art 1,500-ton-per-year permanent magnet manufacturing facility in Sartell, Minnesota. After nearly a decade of research and development in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of Minnesota,…
TotalEnergies (Paris) and Cognite, a leader in industrial AI, announced an agreement will scale the deployment - over a period of three years - of the Cognite industrial data and AI platform, across all TotalEnergies' operated upstream assets worldwide, covering…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (Omaha, Neb.) and Occidental Petroleum Corp. (Houston) announced a definitive agreement for Berkshire Hathaway to acquire Occidental’s chemical business, OxyChem, in an all-cash transaction for $9.7 billion, subject to customary purchase price adjustments. OxyChem is a global…
In the frame of two new long-term contracts, Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) will build, own and operate two new state-of-the-art industrial gas facilities to support the expansion of a leading semiconductor manufacturer in Singapore, for a total investment of €130…
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) has signed an agreement to acquire Sinochem (Ningbo) RO Memtech Co., Ltd. (“Sinochem (Ningbo) Memtech”) to expand its reverse osmosis (RO) manufacturing footprint into China and the Asia Pacific region. With advanced membrane and fabrication production technologies,…
LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) announced that it has completed the development of a liquid photo-imageable dielectric (PID), a key material for advanced semiconductor packaging, and is now gearing up to actively address the demand in AI and other…
Hazer Group Ltd. (Perth, Australia) has entered into a collaboration arrangement with Veolia S.A. (Paris) to explore the deployment of the Hazer process and its co-products across a range of applications including water treatment, waste and energy management. This collaboration…