LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) has announced plans to construct the world’s largest plant exclusively for battery cathode materials by teaming up with Gumi City as it targets the rapidly growing battery market. The company announced on Jan. 11th…
Perstorp AB (Malmö, Sweden) has acquired GEO’s di-methylolpropionic Acid [DMPA] business, further emphasizing its commitment as the sustainable specialty solution provider within the resins and coatings segment. This acquisition further accentuates the company’s strategic presence in Polyurethane and Alkyds dispersions…
Honeywell announced that the Lanaz Company will use UOP modular naphtha hydrotreating and fixed-bed Platforming process units to upgrade its refinery in Iraq so it can produce more cleaner-burning transportation fuels. The project marks the first use of UOP modular…
SUEZ - Water Technologies & Solutions completed the acquisition of Sentinel Monitoring Systems, a real-time microbial monitoring company headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. Sentinel Monitoring Systems develops products that provide real-time and near-real-time solutions to monitor the effectiveness of microbial control within life sciences ultrapure…
SK Geo Centric (SKGC), a subsidiary of SK Innovation (Seoul, South Korea) and PureCycle Technologies, Inc. (Orlando, Fla.), an advanced recycling company revolutionizing plastic waste, signed a non-binding head of agreement (HOA) to open Asia’s first recycled polypropylene (PP) plant…
AGC Chemicals Americas Inc. (AGCCA; Exton, Pa.) announced an expansion at its Thorndale, Pennsylvania production facility that will add up to 50% more manufacturing, quality control lab and office space. The multiuse facility will be configured to meet the growing needs…
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…