Nouryon has acquired Zhejiang Friend Chemical Co., the largest Chinese producer of triethyl aluminum — a metal alkyl used in the production of high-volume polymers.
CH-Bioforce, a Finnish start-up founded by wood chemists, has developed a novel approach to fractionating biomass and converting all of its components into high-value material streams.
Greif, a global leader in industrial packaging products and services, has made a large-scale investment in a new blow-molding machine at its Casablanca plant in Morocco.
AkzoNobel announced plans to add three new production lines at its Changzhou powder coatings plant in China – the company's largest facility of its kind in the world.