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Metso to sell its Ferrous business to SMS Group

Metso Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has signed an agreement to sell its Ferrous business to SMS group (Düsseldorf, Germany), a global company providing technology and services in plant construction and mechanical engineering for the metals industry. The businesses to be divested…

ExxonMobil to sell French subsidiary Esso S.A.F.

ExxonMobil France Holding has entered into exclusive negotiations with North Atlantic France SAS for both the proposed sale of its 82.89% majority shareholder interest in Esso Société Anonyme Française SA (Esso S.A.F.), as well as the proposed sale of ExxonMobil…

BASF takes full ownership of Alsachimie joint venture

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and DOMO Chemicals (Leuna, Germany) have signed an agreement giving BASF the right to take over DOMO Chemicals’ 49% share of the Alsachimie joint venture, in which BASF currently holds 51%. According to applicable laws, the…

Saint-Gobain launches low-carbon insulation plant in the U.K.

Saint-Gobain S.A. (Courbevoie, France) has announced the launch of a new low-carbon stone-wool insulation plant in the U.K., which will be located on a site owned by the Group in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, and is expected to begin production in…

Canada’s largest industrial-scale biochar plant inaugurated

Airex Energy (Bécancour, Quebec, Canada), Groupe Rémabec, a Quebec-based forestry company and SUEZ Group (Paris) inaugurated  Carbonity, Canada's first industrial-scale biochar plant, in Port-Cartier. Resulting from a partnership between the three companies, the plant will start with a production capacity…

Borealis and Borouge expand global XLPE and Semicon capacity

Borealis Group (Vienna, Austria) and Borouge Plc have announced a significant expansion of their global capacity for cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) and semiconductive (semicon) compounds—supporting customers to deliver the power cables essential to distribution and transmission grids. By the end of…

Wood selected as project management consultancy for first major methanol plant in the UAE

Wood plc (Aberdeen, U.K.) has secured a contract from TA’ZIZ to provide project management consultancy (PMC) for the development of the U.A.E.’s first methanol production facility in Al Ruwais Industrial City, Abu Dhabi. Construction will be completed by 2028 and…

Elementis sells Talc business for $121 million

Elementis plc (London) has simultaneously signed and completed the sale of its Talc business to IMI Fabi S.p.A, a global talc manufacturer, for an enterprise value of $121 million, with net cash proceeds after transaction costs in the region of…

Borealis to expand polymer-foam production capacity in Germany

Borealis Group (Vienna, Austria) announced that its facility in Burghausen, Germany is significantly expanding production capacity for an innovative polymer-foam solution called Daploy High Melt Strength polypropylene (HMS PP). This investment—totaling over EUR 100 million—addresses growing global demand for recyclable,…

Syensqo expands compounding capacity at Changshu plant

Syensqo S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) announced the completion of a significant compounding capacity expansion at its Changshu plant. This strategic initiative includes compounding lines for several products, such as Amodel® PPA, Ryton® PPS, Kalix® HPPA, Omnix® HPPA, and Ixef® PARA, which are widely used in…