Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its India based Do-It-Yourself (DIY) consumer adhesives business, part of the Advanced Materials division, to Pidilite Industries Ltd. in an all-cash transaction valued at…
Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany) announced a €20-million expansion of its OLED (organic light-emitting diode) manufacturing capacity at its sites in Pyeongtaek, Korea and Shanghai, China. Additional sublimation units will be built to help meet customer demand in the growing OLED…
Through their partnership, LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.), Total SE (Paris) and L’Oréal have premiered the world’sfirst sustainable packaging made from captured and recycled carbon emissions. The successful conversion process takes place in three steps:• LanzaTech captures industrial carbon emissions and converts…
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Trinseo (Berwyn,. Pa.), a global materials solutions provider and manufacturer of plastics, latex binders and synthetic rubber, has reached definitive agreements with Tyre Recycling Solutions (TRS) on a commercial collaboration and an equity investment in TRS. The transaction is expected…
The Carbon2Chem project initiated by thyssenkrupp (Essen, Germany) is moving into its next phase. Involving 16 additional partners, the project, which is funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), has over the past four years gathered fundamental…
AVEVA plc (Cambridge, U.K.) announced that it has signed an agreement to help accelerate Shell Global Solutions International B.V’s digital transformational strategy by deploying AVEVA’s cloud software solutions. AVEVA will provide Shell with its Engineering Data Warehouse technology, which is…
With the latest expansion of its enzyme portfolio, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) is stepping up its game as an innovation leader and provider of key ingredients for the home care and industrial & institutional cleaning (I&I) industry. Enzymes are essential…
The Chemical Activity Barometer (CAB), a leading economic indicator created by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), rose 0.9 percent in October on a three-month moving average (3MMA) basis, a marked deceleration from the 1.5 percent gain in…
Ten private-and public-sector partners have launched the North-C-Methanol project. Together, they will reduce CO2 emissions by 140,000 tons annually and generate 44,000 tons of “green” methanol locally, which can be used as feedstock for the chemicals and renewables industries, as…