Elkem (Oslo, Norway) announced the opening of a new energy recovery plant at the Elkem Salten site in the northern part of Norway. The installation positions Elkem Salten as one of the most energy effective silicon plants in the world,…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) announced that it has started up a new production line for the manufacture of water-based compounds in Nantong, China. The business belongs to the Urethane Systems (URE) business unit which is also producing polyurethane dispersions, an important…
Johnson Matthey plc (London) announced a Memorandum of Understanding with newly established Norwegian company Hystar AS, a high-tech spin-out from Sintef (Trondheim, Norway), one of Europe’s largest independent research institutions. Hystar is backed by AP Ventures, a significant investor focused…
ECI Group (Manchester, U.K.) has signed an Engineering Expertise Agreement with Shandong Yulong Petrochemical Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of China’s Nanshan Group, for a dual-stream plant capable of producing 200,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA)…
Advanced Biofuel Solutions Ltd. (ABSL; Swindon, U.K.), a developer and producer of advanced biofuels, and Greenergy International Ltd., a leading manufacturer and supplier of waste-based biofuels, announced the signing of a Joint Development Agreement to develop, construct and operate up…
Solenis LLC (Wilmington, Del.) has merged with Sigura Water (Alpharetta, Ga.), an existing Platinum Equity portfolio company, for a total combined transaction value of approximately $6.5 billion. The combined company generates approximately $3.5 billion of revenue. Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware,…
Velocys plc (Harwell, U.K.) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Velocys Renewables LLC, has entered into its first offtake agreement for the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to be produced at the planned Bayou Fuels biorefinery project in Mississippi, USA. with…
Sika AG (Baar, Switzerland) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire MBCC Group (Mannheim, Germany), the former BASF Construction Chemicals, from an affiliate of Lone Star Funds, a global private equity firm, for a consideration of CHF 5.5 billion (€5.2…
Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) has been working to commercialize its range of high nickel cathode materials, principally for the automotive industry. Following a detailed review and ahead of reaching a number of critical investment milestones, JM concluded that the potential…
Vattenfall AB (Stockholm, Sweden), Shell and LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.) will collaborate with Scandinavian airline SAS to investigate the production of the world’s first synthetic sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) using the LanzaJet “Alcohol to Jet” technology on a large scale in…