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PPG to acquire Milan-based powder coatings business

PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.) announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the powder coatings business of Arsonsisi, an industrial coatings company based in Milan, Italy. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022, subject…

BP acquires stake in Green Biofuels Ltd.

BP plc (London) has acquired a 30% stake in Green Biofuels Ltd (GBF), the U.K.’s largest provider of hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO). GBF’s products are made from renewable feedstocks such as vegetable oils, animal oils and fat.  The product range…

Air Liquide to build its largest biomethane plant in Illinois

Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) continues its development of biomethane activities with the construction in the USA of its largest biomethane production unit in the world. This will bring the worldwide biomethane production capacity of the Group to 1.8 TWh. The…

Cemex invests in green-hydrogen startup HiiROC

Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V. (Monterrey, Mexico) and CEMEX Ventures, its corporate venture capital unit, announced their investment in HiiROC, a clean hydrogen production startup. HiiROC developed a technology that uses thermal plasma electrolysis to transform biomethane, flare gas, or natural…

Eastman completes significant expansion of tertiary amine capacity in Belgium and the U.S.

The Care Additives business of Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.) has announced the completion of a significant expansion of its tertiary amine capacity, primarily DIMLA 1214, at both its Ghent, Belgium, and Pace, Florida, manufacturing sites. The Ghent expansion has…

EuroChem makes offer to acquire Borealis’ fertlizer, melamine and nitrogen business

Borealis Group AG (Vienna, Austria) has received a binding offer from Eurochem Group AG (Zug, Switzerland) for the acquisition of Borealis’ nitrogen business including fertilizer, melamine and technical nitrogen products. The offer values the business on an enterprise value basis…

Linde to supply high-purity gases for semiconductor manufacturer in Singapore

Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced that it has signed an agreement to supply high-purity industrial gases to a leading semiconductor manufacturer in Singapore. Linde will build, own and operate a state-of-the-art SPECTRA generator to produce ultra-high-purity nitrogen and oxygen for…

Kemira starts up first production line for bio-based polyacrylamide

Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) announced that is has started the first worldwide full-scale production of its newly developed polymer based on biobased feedstock. The first commercial volumes are shipped to one of the wastewater treatment plants of the Helsinki Region…

Stora Enso to double its European production capacity for formed fiber

Stora Enso Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) is investing €8 million to double its production capacity of formed fiber in Europe. With new machinery in Hylte, Sweden, Stora Enso will meet the increasing demand for formed fiber. The investment further strengthens Stora…

Stamicarbon announces startup of Brunei fertilizer plant

Stamicarbon BV (Sittard, the Netherlands) announced the successful startup of Brunei Fertilizer Industries (BFI)’s new urea melt plant in Brunei. With a nameplate capacity of 3900 metric tons per day (m.t./d), the plant is the largest to be licensed by…