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…
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 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…
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…
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…