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Clariant completes divestment of North American Land Oil business
Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland) announced the completion of the divestment of its North American Land Oil business to Dorf Ketal (Mumbai, India), a specialty chemicals manufacturer and service provider headquartered in India, for $14.5 million on 31 March 2023. Clariant’s…
Ineos completes acquisition of Mitsui Phenols Singapore business
Ineos (London) announced that INEOS Phenol completed its acquisition of the entire asset base of Mitsui Phenols Singapore Ltd from Mitsui Chemicals, a leading Japanese chemicals manufacturer, for a total consideration of $330 million. The business has a turnover of…
Lanxess and Advent International complete foundation of Envalior materials JV
A new joint venture — Envalior — has emerged from the combination of two industry leaders in engineering materials – DSM N.V. (Heerlen, the Netherlands) Engineering Materials (DEM) and Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) High Performance Materials (HPM) – under the…
Chevron Lummus providing process technology for lubricants plant in Brazil
Chevron Lummus Global LLC (CLG) announced a recent contract award from Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) for a new 12,580 barrel/day (bbl/d) hydroisodewaxing (HIDW) unit at the GasLub Hub, a lubricant plant in Itaboraí, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. Chevron Lummus…
Total Corbion, Posco and ESOL to develop PLA recycling infrastructure in South Korea
TotalEnergies Corbion (Gorinchem, the Netherlands), POSCO International and ESOL announced a partnership aimed at developing the PLA recycling infrastructure and technology in South Korea. Over the coming years, the partnership will contribute to the Korean Government framework for Carbon Neutrality.…
Biotrend Energy to build commercial-scale advanced plastics-recycling facility using Honeywell Upcycle technology
Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that Biotrend Energy (Istanbul) signed equipment supply, production license, and warranty agreements to build Türkiye’s first commercialized advanced waste recycling plant using Honeywell UOP UpCycle Process Technology. The facility will convert mixed waste plastics into…
Neste progresses scaleup of waste-plastic processing with second series of runs at Porvoo refinery
Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has successfully concluded its second series of industrial-scale processing runs with liquefied waste plastic at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland. The goal of the processing runs is to further increase the company’s understanding of how different…
Venator completes sale of Iron Oxide business
Venator Materials PLC (Wynyard, U.K.) announced that it has completed the sale of its Iron Oxide business to Cathay Industries. The enterprise value of the transaction was $140 million and Venator expects to receive cash proceeds of approximately $130 million…
Chementator Briefs
P-XYLENE FROM CO2 Last month, a Japanese consortium announced the successful production and purification of p-xylene produced from CO2 at pilot scale. The University of Toyama (www.u-toyama.ac.jp), Chiyoda Corp. (www.chiyodacorp.com) and HighChem Co., Ltd. (www.highchem.co.jp) have been collaborating on producing…
Show Preview: Interphex 2023
Interphex 2023 — a leading global event for the pharmaceutical industry — takes place at the Javits Center in New York City April 25–27. Over 400 exhibitors will be on hand presenting product innovations and services. A technical conference also…