PPG has inaugurated a battery pack application center (BPAC) in Tianjin, China. The $30 million facility was designed with many features for testing the application of PPG coatings technologies, materials and systems for electric vehicle (EV) battery packs. Read More…
Nouryon announced that it has signed a 30-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Convergent Energy and Power to supply 2-megawatt (MW) of solar power to Nouryon’s manufacturing site in Morris, Ill. The onsite solar field is expected to be operational in the second half of 2024. Read More…
LANXESS doubled its production capacity for benzyl alcohol at its site in Kalama, Wash., to support the growth of its customer base in the Americas. The capacity expansion is the result of various technical upgrades. Read More…
DKSH Performance Materials moved to a new 360-square-meter sales office in Roermond, Netherlands, to serve the Benelux region. Read More…
Brenntag announced a new agreement with ML Polyolefins to serve Scandinavia, Czech Republic and Slovakia. The cooperation will focus on applications like automotives and appliances, where there is a high demand for using recyclates. Read More…
WACKER announced the completion of the capacity expansion for vinyl-acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions and VAE dispersible polymer powders at its Nanjing site in China. Read More…