SK bioscience announced that the company broke ground on a major expansion of its vaccine manufacturing plant, L HOUSE, located in Andong, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea. The groundbreaking ceremony was attended by Cheol-woo Lee, Governor Gyeongsangbuk-do, GiChang Kwon, Mayor Andong City,…
DIC Corp. (Tokyo) announced that subsidiary IDEAL CHEMI PLAST PRIVATE LTD., based in the Indian state of Maharashtra, opened and commenced operations at a new production facility for coating resins for automotive and infrastructure applications in the state’s Supa Japanese…
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (Tokyo) plans to make investments to strengthen the pharmaceutical cellulose business. These investments will be implemented in the Naoetsu plant (Joetsu-city, Niigata Pref.). The plan is to double the manufacturing capacity of pharmaceutical excipient hypromellose acetate…
MAIRE S.p.A. (Milan) announced that its subsidiary Tecnimont (Integrated E&C Solutions) has been awarded by Sonatach (Algiers, Algeria) through a tendering process an EPCC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning) contract for a new linear alkyl benzene (LAB) plant in the…
Arkema S.A. (Colombes, France) and Hexcel Corp. (Stamford, Conn.) have jointly completes the first-ever aeronautical structure composed of thermoplastic composites. This achievement stems from the strategic partnership between Hexcel and Arkema. The high-performance thermoplastic composite structure was designed and manufactured…
Mitra Future Technologies, Inc. (Mitra Chem), a leading innovator of North American lithium-ion battery materials and Saint-Gobain Ceramics, a global leader in specialty ceramic materials, announced a groundbreaking partnership to accelerate the production of lithium iron manganese phosphate (LMFP) cathode…
Boston Metal, a global metals technology solutions company, announced the inauguration of the first facility for its Molten Oxide Electrolysis (MOE) technology platform to recover high-value metals from mining waste in Brazil. This deployment is a major milestone for Boston…
Silicon Catalyst, the world’s only incubator focused exclusively on accelerating semiconductor solutions, announced today that DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) has renewed its engagement as a Strategic Ecosystem Partner. Silicon Catalyst will continue to provide strategic insight for DuPont into startups developing…
Bloom Energy Corp. (San Jose, Calif.) is teaming up with Shell Plc. to study decarbonization solutions, utilizing Bloom’s proprietary hydrogen electrolyzer technology. Bloom and Shell will collaborate with the goal of developing replicable, large-scale, solid oxide electrolyzer (SOEC) systems that…
Linde Engineering (Pullach, Germany) has signed a contract with global fertilizer manufacturer Yara International ASA (Oslo, Norway) to build a world-scale carbon dioxide (CO2) liquefaction plant in Sluiskil, the Netherlands. The Sluiskil project forms a key part of Yara’s clean…