NatureWorks LLC (Minnetonka, Minn.) hosted a cornerstone laying ceremony to celebrate construction of their new Ingeo PLA manufacturing complex in Thailand. The ceremony commemorated the progress made to date on the new fully integrated biopolymer facility. The day also featured…
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announces that its subsidiary NextChem has been awarded a Feasibility Study by Foresight Group for a carbon capture and sustainable methanol synthesis plant in the ETA Manfredonia waste-to-energy plant in Puglia, a Southeastern Italian region. Upon completion of the Feasibility Study, the successful…
Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo) announced the acquisition of Fluence Analytics, Inc. (Houston), a startup that provides real-time analytics solutions to polymer and biopharmaceutical companies worldwide. Since signing investment and collaboration agreements in 2021, the two companies have been exploring potential…
UPM Biochemicals and HAERTOL Chemie GmbH announced a development partnership that will accelerate the introduction of renewable, sustainable forest-sourced materials into the automotive market and reduce fossil resource consumption. UPM Biochemicals and HAERTOL, both headquartered in Germany, have agreed to…
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) intends to carry out a joint incorporation-type demerger with Asahi Kasei (Tokyo) for the two companies’ nonwovens businesses, forming a new integrated company as of the tentative date of October 2, 2023. The companies have agreed…
Nippon Paper Industries Co., (Tokyo), Sumitomo Corp. (Tokyo) and Green Earth Institute Co. (Tokyo) agreed to begin trilateral consideration of the first commercial production of cellulosic bioethanol from woody biomass in Japan and its development into bio-chemical products. Bioethanol is…
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) and Idemitsu Kosan Co. (Tokyo) announced that they have agreed to build a supply chain for plastics made from biomass naphtha. They would manufacture biomass styrene monomer derived from biomass naphtha and acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS)…
Kuraray Co. (Tokyo) announced that construction of a new plant for isoprene-related businesses has been completed and will soon start operations in stages. The construction was undertaken by Bangkok-based subsidiaries Kuraray GC Advanced Materials Co., Ltdand Kuraray Advanced Chemicals (Thailand)…
LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced that PetroChina Jilin Petrochemical Company will again license LyondellBasell’s polyethylene technology at their facility located in Jilin City, Jilin Province, P.R. of China. The newly licensed technology will comprise of LyondellBasell’s leading high-pressure…
Metso Outotec Oy (Helsinki, Finland) is ecpanding its filter assembly plant in Suzhou, China, to respond to global market demand. The plant expansion will not only double local capacity in China to deliver high-quality filters for mining and other industrial…