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Advancion expands manufacturing capabilities for zwitterionic biological buffer product

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 acquires Nippon Aluminum Alkyls from Ketjen

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.…

ACT-ion to establish advanced cathode pilot plant in Carrollton, Texas

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 breaks ground on rare-earth-free magnet manufacturing plant in Minnesota

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 and Cognite expand partnership to scale industrial AI

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 to acquire OxyChem from Occidental for $9.7 billion

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…

Air Liquide invests €130 million in high-purity gas supply in Singapore

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 acquires reverse-osmosis company in China

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 develops liquid photo-imageable dielectric for semiconductor packaging

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…

Veolia partners with Hazer Group on environmental studies of methane pyrolysis products

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…