Category: Chemical Industry

Beckers Group Commissions 9,000-Ton Resin Plant in India

Beckers Group, through its joint venture Berger-Becker Coatings, has commissioned a resin manufactur...

2026-06-06

Dutch Clean Cups Completes Development of Compostable Capsules, Commercialization Put on Hold

The Dutch Clean Cups project has completed the development of home-compostable coffee capsules compa...

2026-06-06

DiversiTech Acquires Polymer Adhesives in the U.S.

DiversiTech Corp. announced that it has completed the acquisition of Polymer Adhesives Holdings LLC,...

2026-06-06

Orion's Qingdao, China Plant Certified, Launches Circular Carbon Black Production

Carbon black producer Orion S.A. (headquartered in Spring, Texas, USA) has obtained ISCC PLUS certif...

2026-06-06

Sasol invests €60 million to expand German chemicals production base

Sasol International Chemicals, a subsidiary of Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa), announced an...

2026-06-06

Azelis and Arxada Expand Specialty Chemicals Distribution Partnership in France

Azelis and specialty chemicals company Arxada have announced an expanded collaboration. Under the ne...

2026-06-06

Brazil's WEG Opens Paint Factory and Distribution Center in the US

Brazilian electrical equipment manufacturer WEG has announced the opening of a paint manufacturing p...

2026-06-06

Canadian National Railway Company Signs Potash Transportation Agreement with BHP

Canadian National Railway Company (CN) has signed a transportation agreement with BHP to transport p...

2026-06-06

American Chemistry Council Approves Extension of 17 Executives' Terms and New Member Admissions

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) approved the extension of board terms for 17 executives and adm...

2026-06-06

Celanese Closes South Korea Plant, Shifts Production to China and India

Celanese Corp. announced the closure of its engineered materials compounding plant in Ulsan, South K...

2026-06-06

Saudi Aramco Awards McDermott PMC Long-Term Agreement for Energy Projects

McDermott has been selected among 11 pre-qualified contractors by Aramco to secure a Project Managem...

2026-06-06

Yale University Develops Solar-Powered Artificial Leaf to Convert CO2 into Methanol

A research team at Yale University has developed a solar-powered artificial leaf system that operate...

2026-06-05

Four Japanese Companies Collaborate to Develop Renewable Nylon Fiber, Reducing Emissions by Over 85%

Goldwin, Neste, Idemitsu Kosan, and Toray Industries have jointly developed a supply chain for produ...

2026-06-05

EU Conditionally Approves Carlyle's Acquisition of BASF's Coatings Business

The European Commission has approved Carlyle's acquisition of BASF's coatings business, on the condi...

2026-06-05

Lummus ETJ Technology Secures First Commercial License for NTPC Project in India

Lummus Technology announced that GPS Renewables has selected its ethanol-to-jet (ETJ) technology for...

2026-06-05

Swedish Perstorp Accelerates Resin Coating Development with AI

Dr. Ioanna Tzortzi, Associate Expert in Resin and Coating Innovation at Perstorp AB, introduced the ...

2026-06-05

BASF and Encina Deepen Circular Chemicals Collaboration in the U.S.

BASF has signed a cooperation agreement with Encina to provide strategic advisory support during the...

2026-06-05

Sage Potash Revises Potash Plant Purchase Agreement, Total Consideration €11 Million

Sage Potash Corp. (TSXV: SAGE) (OTCQB: SGPTF) announced amendments to the terms of a plant and equip...

2026-06-05

Mitsui Chemicals Plans to Expand Ophthalmic Lens Material Production by 2029

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) has announced plans to expand the production capacity of its MR™ seri...

2026-06-05

MIT Develops Impact-Resistant Polymer Crosslinking Technology

Chemists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have potentially transformed everyday pl...

2026-06-05

Russian PhosAgro Plans to Invest 500 Million Rubles in Small-Package Fertilizer Production

PhosAgro (ФосАгро) plans to produce small-package mineral fertilizers at its Volkhov (Волхов) plant,...

2026-06-05

Pencco Inc. launches $20 million chemicals plant in Alabama

Pencco Inc. has opened a new $20 million specialty chemicals manufacturing facility in Gadsden, Alab...

2026-06-05

BASF Coatings Strengthens Position in Robot-Assisted Automotive Refinish

BASF Coatings is strengthening its position in robot-assisted automotive refinish by integrating coa...

2026-06-05

Nigeria's Dangote Refinery Tests 700,000 Barrels Per Day, Plans to Expand to 1.4 Million

Nigeria's Dangote Petroleum Refinery has increased its crude oil processing capacity to 700,000 barr...

2026-06-05

India sets up six working groups to promote local manufacturing of 100 products

The Indian government has established six sector-specific working groups to identify up to 100 produ...

2026-06-05

PureCycle and StackTeck Produce Living Hinge Caps with 100% Recycled Resin

PureCycle Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Orlando, Florida, in collaboration with StackTeck Sys...

2026-06-05

DNV Advises on Financing for Paraguay's $650 Million Green Hydrogen Fertilizer Project

DNV, the independent energy expert and assurance provider, served as the lender's technical advisor ...

2026-06-05

Japan's UBE MAXELL to Build New Battery Separator Facility, Boosting Capacity by Approximately 50%

UBE MAXELL CO., LTD. has announced plans to construct a new lithium-ion battery (LiB) separator base...

2026-06-05

China's First 7.6-Meter Top-Charging Coke Oven Complete Set Operates Smoothly for 1,300 Days

On June 4, the first 7.6-meter top-charging coke oven complete set in China, developed by Taiyuan He...

2026-06-05

China's Lanzhou Petrochemical Ethylene Cumulative Output Exceeds 20 Million Tons

On June 1, the construction of the primary freezer storage and terminal project for the LPG receivin...

2026-06-04