Thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers GmbH, Dortmund, Germany has signed a supply contract with Shell for the large-scale project ‘Hydrogen Holland I’ in the port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Under the contract, thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers will engineer, procure and fabricate…
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, Mass.) and PeproTech, Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of recombinant proteins, today announced that Thermo Fisher completed its acquisition of PeproTech on December 30, 2021 for a total cash purchase price of approximately $1.85 billion. Based…
WL Plastics Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of INEOS USA LLC d/b/a INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA, has completed the acquisition of the polyethylene pipe extrusion assets of Charter Plastics, Inc. located in Titusville, Pennsylvania. This strategic acquisition provides the…
Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) has launched an innovative technology –HyCOgen – designed to play a pivotal role in enabling the conversion of captured carbon dioxide (CO2) and green hydrogen into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). By combining HyCOgen with the…
Effective 1 January 2022, the Endress+Hauser (Reinach BL; Switzerland) subsidiaries SpectraSensors, Inc. and Kaiser Optical Systems, Inc. have joined forces to form a new company: Endress+Hauser Optical Analysis, Inc. By consolidating its expertise in the field of laser-based measurement technology,…
Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland) completed the sale of its Pigments business to a consortium of Heubach Group (Heubach) and SK Capital Partners (SK Capital). As announced upon signing of the transaction, the base enterprise value of the sale amounts to…
Cargill, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minn.) reached an agreement with Croda International Plc (Snaith, U.K.) to acquire the majority of its performance technologies and industrial chemicals business for EUR 915,000,000 ($ 1.03 billion) on a cash-free, debt-free basis. The investment would dramatically expand Cargill’s…
Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has signed an agreement to divest its Metal Recycling business line to an affiliate of Mimir, an investment company based in Stockholm, Sweden. The closing of the transaction is expected to take place during the…
A new company - Elessent Clean Technologies - has launched, as an international private equity consortium, consisting of BroadPeak Global LP, Asia Green Fund (AGF) and The Saudi Arabian Industrial Investments Company (Dussur), completed its transaction to purchase the Clean…
SK Geo Centric (SKGC), a subsidiary of SK Innovation (Seoul, South Korea) and Tokuyama Corp. (Tokyo) plan to invest roughly KRW 120 billion (around $100 million) in a joint venture (JV) in Ulsan, Korea. The JV will produce and sell…