Trelleborg Group AB (Trelleborg, Sweden) has, through its business area Trelleborg Industrial Solutions, signed an agreement and finalized the acquisition of Sico Gesellschaft für Siliconverarbeitung mbH and Czech joint venture company Sico Silicone s.r.o. Trelleborg has been a 50/50 joint…
Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LLC (CPChem; The Woodlands, Tex.) announced that the shareholders of Chevron Phillips Singapore Chemicals have agreed to sell 100% of their shares to Aster Chemicals and Energy through its affiliate Chandra Asri Group (Jakarta, Indonesia). Aster…
Thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany) announced that Koppö Energia Oy has chosen uhde's green methanol technology and ordered a FEED (Front End Engineering Design) from thyssenkrupp Uhde. The planned e-methanol plant is part of a power-to-x (P2X) project developed by…
Rio Tinto plc (London) and its new partner Indium Corporation have successfully extracted the first primary gallium as part of a research and development project, which ultimately aims to produce commercial quantities of the critical and strategic mineral present in…
AkzoNobel N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) is purchasing significantly reduced carbon footprint raw materials from BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) for its decorative paints production in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), demonstrating the shared commitment of both companies to drive down…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced the signing of a Cooperation Agreement with Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.), positioning BASF’s advanced DeOxo catalysts as an offer within Plug Power’s hydrogen liquefaction plants globally to enhance their market offerings, improving reliability and…
Elcogen AS (Talinn, Estonia) announced that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Casale S.A. (Lugano, Switzerland). This is a non-exclusive Memorandum that will enable the parties to collaborate on green ammonia and other Power-to-X (P2X) projects.…
MSSA (Saint Marcel, France), a global leader in the sodium and lithium metal market and a subsidiary of the International Chemical Investors Group (ICIG), announced the expansion of its sodium methylate production unit at its La Rochelle site. The strategic…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has signed a license agreement with Carbon Cap Applications Technology Co. (CCAT) to provide its OASE blue gas treatment technology for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at the Taichung Power Plant Carbon Reduction Technology…
SunGas Renewables (Houston) has selected Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) as a technology partner for its flagship project – Beaver Lake Renewable Energy – a biomethanol plant planned in Rapides Parish, Louisiana. The plant will be an investment of more…