Under a long-term contract with Wanhua Chemical Group, Air Liquide will invest close to 60 million euros to take over and operate the Group’s Air Separation Unit in Yantai, China. With this move, Air Liquide will start supplying industrial and medical gases in the city of Yantai and also reinforce its presence in the region of Shandong.

Sumitomo Chemical has developed a new pilot facility for the chemical recycling of PMMA at its Ehime Works located in Niihama City, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. The company now intends to sell its chemically recycled acrylic resin product to leading electronics and automotive companies.

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Akzonobel is utilizing industrial residue as a sustainable raw material for producing paints. The company makes use of nearly a third of the total residue generated during industrial effluent treatment at the Mauá plant in São Paulo to produce the paint.

Dow has invested in Xycle, a Netherlands-based leader in chemical recycling technology. The move is in line with the company’s goal of accelerating a circular economy for plastics.

Toray has recently inaugurated its advanced semiconductor technologies and materials R&D center in Taiwan. The island country is the world’s biggest semiconductor manufacturer and is an advanced semiconductor technology leader.

With an aim to strengthen Sumitomo Chemical’s system for meeting new market needs and further expanding its LCP business, the company has acquired the LCP Neat Resin Business Asset from Syensqo.

With a new major biomass project at the Torrelavega site in Spain, Solvay aims to nearly halve CO2 emissions at the site by 2027. The project is in line with the firm’s goal of slashing the site’s carbon footprint for its customers in Spain.

Almost every sector around the world right from the chemical industry to the aviation industry are looking to decarbonize their operations. New technologies and even sustainable alternatives are being explored for this purpose. Renewable methanol or sustainable methanol is just one of these many new solutions that aims to slash and even eliminate carbon emissions for these sectors.

Idemitsu Kosan has plans to develop a large-scale production facility for solid electrolytes which is a material used in the production of all-solid-state lithium-ion rechargeable batteries.