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Milliken invests to increase production of advanced PPE fabrics

 Milliken & Co. (Spartanburg, S.C.) has invested significant resources to increase domestic production of its Milliken Perimeter advanced medical fabrics. Since March, the company has distributed more than 10 million yards of reusable medical fabrics in response to the global…

Synthomer awarded funding to improve LIB performance

Synthomer Plc (London, U.K.) and its partners have together been awarded £760,826 in funding from the ISCF Faraday Battery Challenge for a project focused on increasing the performance, manufacturability and environmental profile of lithium-ion battery (LIB) cells. This will be…

Wacker Invests in Amsterdam Biotech Site

Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) is investing in its production facilities for biologics, LMPs (live microbial products) and vaccines at its Amsterdam site. Projects include the construction of a new fermentation line with a volume of 1,500 liters, as well…

Ashland to sell its maleic anhydride business for $100 million

Ashland Global Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.) announced a definitive agreement to sell the company’s maleic anhydride business and manufacturing facility in Neal, West Virginia to AOC Materials LLC, for $100 million. Maleic anhydride is manufactured industrially on a large scale…

LanzaTech and NextChem to license waste-to-ethanol technology

 NextChem and U.S. carbon recycling company, LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.) have signed an agreement to license the Waste to Ethanol process. NextChem thereby expands its circular economy and chemical recycling technologies, adding circular ethanol technology to its circular hydrogen and circular…

Coperion and Lummus Novolen jointly develop a new production concept for meltblown PP

In a recent test series performed in its test lab at Stuttgart, Germany, Coperion Gmbh (Stuttgart, Germany), together with technology licensor Lummus Novolen Technology, demonstrated the successful production of various polypropylene (PP) pellets with extremely low melt viscosities using Coperion…

Europe’s largest industrial green-hydrogen project underway in Spain

Iberdrola (Bilbao, Spain) and Fertiberia (Madrid, Spain) have signed an agreement, which will trigger an investment of 150 million euros, to construct the largest plant to produce green hydrogen for industrial use in Europe. The Spanish companies are to build…

Arkema invests in U.S. 3D-printing startup

Arkema S.A. (Colombes, France) is strengthening its partnership with Continuous Composites, creator of Continuous Fiber 3D Printing technology (CF3D®). Arkema has invested in the American start-up to rapidly advance the development of 3D composite manufacturing, a groundbreaking innovation for strong,…

Petronas subsidiary selects Honeywell UOP gas-purification technology

Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.) announced that PETRONAS Carigali Sdn. Bhd. (PCSB), a subsidiary of PETRONAS, will use UOP’s modular natural-gas processing technology in the development of a 900 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd) offshore gas-purification plant in…

Sibur and G-Core Labs launch universal augmented-reality service for remote maintenance

Sibur (Moscow, Russia) & G-Core Labs S.A. (Luxembourg) have launched a universal augmented reality (AR) service for the remote maintenance and repair of industrial equipment. Sibur has launched the universal AR service for remotely maintaining and repairing industrial equipment, which will…