DeLille Oxygen Co. (Columbus, Ohio; www.columbusspecialtygases.com) moves beyond tube trailer or cylinder supply of carbon monoxide (CO). The specialty gas company has chosen Haldor Topsoe A/S’s (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) eCOs solution for cost-competitive onsite production of ultra-high-purity CO for a…
Umicore N.V. (Brussels, Belgium; www.umicore.com) and Glencore plc (Baar, Switzerland; www.glencore.com) announce today that they have entered into a long-term revolving agreement for the supply of cobalt hydroxide (cobalt) to Umicore’s battery materials value chain. The cobalt will be sourced…
Dow selects Univar Solutions as a key channel to market for polyurethanes in North AmericaDow approves Univar Solutions to carry range of polyols and isocyanates in U.S. and CanadaDow (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) and Univar Inc. (Downer's Grove, Ill.; www.univar.com) today…
Innovative Sensor Technology IST AG (Ebnat-Kappel, Switzerland; www.ist-ag.com), part of the Endress+Hauser Group (Reinach BL, Switzerland; www.endress.com), continues its growth path. On 24 May 2019, the sensor specialist officially opened an expansion of its plant in Ebnat-Kappel in eastern Switzerland.…
BASF Venture Capital GmbH (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is investing in the Longwater Advanced Materials Fund. This private equity fund is managed by Longwater Investment (Shanghai, China; www.longwatercap.com), a pioneer growth capital investor in advanced materials and chemistry-related technologies. BASF Venture…
Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, has awarded ÅF Pöyry (Helsinki, Finland; www.poyry.com) with the pre-engineering assignment for new bioproduct mill, Kemi. The target for the ongoing pre-engineering project is to create conditions for building a bioproduct mill with…
This Friday May 24, Rotterdam The Hague Airport and a European consortium led by EDL Anlagenbau Gesellschaft GmbH will sign a cooperation agreement for a study, which aims at developing a demonstration plant that produces renewable jet fuel from air.…
Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain; www.repsol.com) has devoted many resources to lead the search for new solutions to boost the Circular Economy and promote that a large amount of plastic waste, which currently goes to landfill, be transformed into new raw…
The production processes of the most important basic chemicals are responsible for around 70% of the greenhouse gas emissions in the chemical industry. BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) experts are working intensely on new technologies to substantially reduce emissions in…
Pöyry Oyj (Helsinki, Finland; www.poyry.com) has developed a PlasticsToBio concept and initiative to address the global plastics problem, providing an affordable and economically viable concept to decouple plastics from fossil based materials and turn all plastics bio-based. The concept looks…