Siemens Energy (Munich, Germany) will locate the industrial production of electrolysis modules in Berlin and is thus taking the centerpiece of its hydrogen technology to the capital. Start of production at the location Huttenstrasse in Berlin’s Moabit locality is scheduled…
Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) will construct a new manufacturing plant for active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and intermediates for small molecule drugs at its Oita Works (Oita City, Oita Prefecture, Japan). This project is to enhance the company’s capacity to…
PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.) announced that it has agreed to divest certain business activities in Senegal, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Gabon and Algeria to Océinde, an industrial group based in Réunion, France. Océinde will continue to offer the existing range of products,…
Sasol Chemicals, a business unit of Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Holiferm Limited announced a partnership to jointly develop new biosurfactants and enable the broad commercialization of sophorolipids. Sasol Chemicals has agreed to purchase the majority of sophorolipids produced…
Veolia (Paris) and Waga Energy have announced the commissioning of France’s largest biomethane production unit using biogas from a non-hazardous waste storage facility. Located on the largest biogas production site in France, Veolia’s industrial ecology hub in Claye-Souilly (Paris region),…
In October 2021, Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) announced that it had signed an agreement to sell its existing base oils business to Chevron Global Energy Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Chevron Corp. (San Ramon, Calif.). The transaction includes the…
Alfa Laval AB (Lund, Sweden) has signed an agreement to acquire Desmet, part of the Desmet Ballestra Group, a world leader in engineering and supplying processing plants and technologies for edible oils and biofuel sectors. The acquisition will strengthen Alfa…
Milliken & Co. (Spartanburg, S.C.) announced that it is expanding the facilities and capacity it acquired last March via its purchase of Germany’s Zebra-chem GmbH. Zebra-chem is a specialty compounder and chemicals company that makes additive and blowing agent concentrates for polyolefins,…
MOL Group (Budapest, Hungary; www.molgroup.info) acquired ReMat Zrt., a recycler with production plants located in Tiszaújváros and Rakamaz, Hungary, and a logistics hub in Bratislava, Slovakia. ReMat is a market leading plastics recycler in Hungary with an annual processing capacity…
The 50-mm HPS high-purity pressure gage with reed switch (photo) is ultrasonically cleaned to provide exceptional quality and reliability in ultra-high-purity gas delivery systems. The reed-switch capability provides an additional safety feature through actuating an internal switch that triggers an…