Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Düsseldorf, Germany) and Carbon have announced a partnership agreement to collaborate for Loctite branded formulations validated for use with Carbon’s additive manufacturing process. As part of the collaboration the new Loctite 3D IND405 Clear material…
Recycling Technologies, a specialist plastic recycling technology provider; Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland), the world’s leading provider of renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel, and a forerunner in drop-in renewable and circular chemical solutions; and Unilever (London), the consumer goods manufacturer of…
LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) announced that it has successfully developed a new biodegradable material that could realize mechanical properties equivalent to synthetic resins for the first time in the world. The new material is said to exhibit significantly…
Frames Group B.V. (Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands) has supplied a 25-kW hydrogen electrolyzer to Plug Power, a leading provider of clean hydrogen and zero-emission fuel cell solutions. Working in collaboration with Plug Power, the Frames Electrolyzer design has…
NOVA Chemicals Corp. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) announced that it has agreed to sell its expandable styrenics business to a subsidiary of Alpek S.A.B. de C.V. (San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico). The parties expect to close the transaction in the fourth…
UPM Biochemicals, a group company of UPM Group (Helsinki Finland), together with Saxony-Anhalt's Prime Minister Dr. Reiner Haseloff, UPM Executive Vice President Technology Jyrki Ovaska and InfraLeuna Managing Director Dr. Christof Güntherden, celebrated the groundbreaking for the construction of a…
MOL Group (Budapest, Hungary; www.mol.hu) announced that it has completed a rubber bitumen plant at the Zala Site, representing an investment of around $10 million. The facility, built in one year, is capable of producing 20,000 metric tons per year…
ABB, Inc. (Zurich, Switzerland) and IBM announced a collaboration focused on connecting cybersecurity and operational technology (OT). As a first result of this collaboration, ABB has developed a new OT Security Event Monitoring Service that combines ABB’s process control system…
At Wanhua Yantai Industrial Park, in the Shandong province of China, SUEZ (Paris, France) will provide Wanhua Group, a global chemical company, with integrated wastewater treatment units and a full-process suite for the tertiary treatment of concentrated wastewater. The process…
Nippon Shokubai Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) has developed a novel superabsorbent polymer (SAP) with super-fast-drying absorption property, which could not be achieved in the past. Currently, the company is building a 15,000 ton/y plant at its Himeji Plant, and expects to…