Zeon Corporation has partnered with Chemify for accelerating the design, discovery, and synthesis of novel molecules for medicines and advanced materials.

The Canadian court has ordered Nova Chemicals to pay Dow an additional amount of 1.2 billion dollars in damages. The judgement relates to losses Dow incurred from the companies' jointly owned ethylene asset in Joffre, Alberta, Canada.

Cargill Incorporated’s 17-acre specialty chemical manufacturing facility in Dalton, Georgia, USA has now been acquired by the Aditya Birla Group. With this, the Group aims to expand its U.S. Advanced Materials business.

Under a MOU signed between Covestro, Fertiglobe, and Ta’ziz, all the parties will work together to explore collaboration across the ammonia and nitric acid value chains. Covestro and Fertiglobe intend to explore short-term ammonia supply opportunities from Fertiglobe’s facilities to Covestro’s sites in China and the USA.

BASF has recently announced that it has completed the divestment of its shares in the joint venture companies, BASF Markor Chemical Manufacturing (Xinjiang) Co. and Markor Meiou Chemical (Xinjiang) Co. in Korla, China, to Verde Chemical Singapore.

Henkel has joined hands with Sekab to speed up the transition from fossil-based to bio-based raw materials in adhesive production. The partnership intends to replace conventional ethyl acetate with a sustainable, bio-based alternative.

BASF has started up a steam cracker at its Verbund site in China which is claimed to be the first cracker in the world using 100 % renewable energy to drive its main compressors.

Siemens and Caphenia have teamed up to accelerate the production of sustainable aviation fuel. Under the partnership Siemens will provide digitalization and automation solutions for Caphenia’s plasma technology which converts bio-methane into synthesis gas.

Ta’ziz and The Sanmar Group have entered into two product sale agreement term sheets under which Ta’ziz will supply Sanmar with over 350,000 tonnes per annum of ethylene dichloride and vinyl chloride monomer.

Thyssenkrupp Nucera’s e-Bitac v7 electrolyzer have been installed at AGC Vinythai’s chlor-alkali plant in Map Ta Phut, Thailand. With this, the project will deliver an annual production capacity of 220,000 tons of caustic soda.