AkzoNobel has joined forces with SuikerUnie, Rabobank, Deloitte, Investment and Development Agency for the Northern Netherlands (NOM), Groningen Seaports, and the Province of Groningen, to investigate the possibility of producing chemicals from beet-derived sugar feedstock.
Hoover Container Solutions (Hoover), a provider of chemical tanks, cargo carrying units, and related products and services, has entered into an agreement to partner with First Reserve, a private equity firm focused on energy.
As announced in November 2013, Vencorex is expanding its global capacity for Tolonate™ HDI derivatives by establishing a new production unit in Thailand.
Superior Materials Inc., Garden City, NY, announced that effective January 1, 2015, BASF Corp. will be expanding Superior Materials’ distribution responsibility for Attapulgite specialty additives into the Midwest region.
Based on its recent analysis of the carbon nanotubes market, Frost & Sullivan has recognized OCSiAl Group with the 2014 North American Award for Technology Innovation for its OCSiAl TUBALL™ products.
Verdezyne Inc., a privately held industrial biotechnology company focused on producing renewable chemicals, has reached an agreement with Bio-XCell Malaysia to construct Verdezyne’s first commercial-scale renewable chemicals manufacturing facility in Bio-XCell’s biotechnology and ecosystem park in Nusajaya, Iskandar, in southern Malaysia.
Novomer Inc., announced that Jowat AG, a supplier of industrial adhesives headquartered in Germany, is the first to commercially adopt Novomer’s new Converge® polypropylene carbonate (PPC) polyols for use in polyurethane hot melt adhesive applications.