AGC Inc. (Tokyo) announced that it has reached an agreement with Sumitomo Bakelite Co. (Tokyo) to transfer its polycarbonate business. AGC's polycarbonate business offers an extensive lineup in a wide range of fields that include industry and electronics in addition…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has reached a major construction milestone at the Zhanjiang Verbund site with the successful mechanical completion of the first batch of plants in the acrylics complex, including the glacial acrylic acid (GAA) and butyl acrylate (BA)…
Linde plc (Dublin, Ireland) has announced ambitious new investments into the commercial space-launch sector. With two new long-term agreements to supply bulk industrial gases for rocket launches, Linde is strengthening its leadership in the rapidly expanding U.S. space industry. As…
Air Liquide S.A. (Paris, France) has successfully started up a new plant in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. This Molybdenum manufacturing plant, the largest in the world, will supply leading semiconductor customers with its breakthrough advanced materials portfoilo, SubleemTM. The…
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) announced that it has supplied reverse osmosis (RO) membranes to the Shuaibah 3 IWP seawater desalination plant in Saudi Arabia through Dammam-based subsidiary Toray Membrane Middle East LLC. The Plant’s daily potable water production capacity is…
GEA Group (Düsseldorf, Germany) opened its New Food Application and Technology Center (ATC) in Janesville, Wisconsin, on July 17, 2025. The $20 million facility is the company’s second global Center of Excellence dedicated to alternative proteins and sustainable food solutions…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for the development of an ammonia and urea production plant by KAR Electrical Power Production Trading FZE (KEPPT) in Basra, Iraq. Under the terms of…
Tokuyama Corp. (Tokyo) announced the establishment of a joint venture (JV) company with OCI TerraSus, a Malaysian subsidiary of the OCI Group (Seoul, South Korea), for the production and sale of semiconductor-grade polycrystalline silicon semi-finished products in Malaysia, to be…
The Mosaic Co. (Tampa, Fla.) announced that its new fertilizer blending, storage and distribution plant in Palmeirante, Tocantins, Brazil, will begin operations this month. The plant increases blending capacity and expands Mosaic's presence in the fast-growing northern region of Brazil.…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) commissioned its new production line for the manufacture of ultra-pure semiconductor-grade polysilicon at its Burghausen production site in Germany. Accompanied by customers, suppliers and project partners, high-profile figures including Bavaria’s Minister-President Markus Söder and Gitta…