BMW Group has announced plans for a new pilot plant that will produce lithium-ion battery (LIB) cells. With this plant, the company is taking the next logical step in penetrating all aspects of the battery cell value chain: from selection…
Hexion Inc. (Columbus, Ohio) announced a collaboration with Poland-based D&R Dispersions and Resins Sp. z o.o. to produce VeoVa Silane resins on a commercial scale, which gives paint producers and formulators direct access to this unique technology. The VeoVa Silane…
In line with its plan to reduce its emissions of CO2, Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa) has signed an exclusive negotiation agreement for Air Liquide (Paris, France) to acquire the biggest oxygen-production site in the world located in Secunda in…
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.), a global chemical and specialty materials company, today announced that it is establishing a European Compounding Center of Excellence at the Company’s Forli, Italy facility, which includes the intended consolidation of its compounding operations in Kaiserslautern,…
Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced that it has started up a new air separation unit (ASU) and the first of three nitrogen (N2) generators, as part of a 15-year contract to supply ultra-high purity industrial gases to a major electronics…
The American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) reported that with continued recovery in the U.S. economy, specialty chemicals market volumes increased by 3.6 percent in June, an improvement from the revised 1.2 percent gain in May and the record…
The Chemical Activity Barometer (CAB) a leading economic indicator created by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), rose 2.7 percent in July on a three-month moving average (3MMA) basis following a 0.1 percent gain in June. On a…
The Alliance to End Plastic Waste and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), launch the Aviral – Reducing Plastic Waste in the Ganga pilot project. This initiative aims to reduce the amount of plastic waste entering the environment in the…
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 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…