Kaneka Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) plans to significantly increase production capacity for its biodegradable polymer product, Green Planet, in Japan. Green Planet holds promise as an innovative solution against environmental harm caused by single-use plastics due to its biodegradable characteristics, while…
Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced that it has expanded its existing agreement with Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.), and will begin supplying carbon dioxide and hydrogen to the Celanese manufacturing facility in Clear Lake, Texas. Linde currently supplies oxygen, nitrogen and…
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 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 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, 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…
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…
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 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 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…