Röhm has inaugurated its Bay City MMA plant in Texas, USA. With this, the company’s proprietary Lima technology has been operating at full industrial scale for the first time worldwide.

Meranti Green Steel has entered into a MOU with Interfer Edelstahl Handelsgesellschaft to establish an offtake partnership. With this move, Interfer Edelstahl Handelsgesellschaft will support Meranti’s mission of becoming a premier supplier of Green Hot Rolled Coils from the Asia-Pacific region to Europe.

Eastman’s Kingsport site in Tennessee, USA has achieved ISO 59014 certification which includes the company’s material-to-material methanolysis recycling technology at the Kingsport facility.

Honeywell UOP’s Ethanol-to-Jet process technology has been selected by Petrobras for project development at the Replan refinery in São Paulo, Brazil. Once approved, the project is expected to deliver up to 10,000 barrels per day of sustainable aviation fuel.

Lonza has plans to divest its Capsules & Health Ingredients business to Lone Star for an enterprise value of 3 billion dollars. The transaction is considered as the most significant step to complete Lonza’s strategic portfolio transformation to a pure-play CDMO.

Akzonobel has plans to sell Akzo Nobel Pakistan to IGI Investments, part of the Packages Group, one of Pakistan’s most diversified conglomerates for approximately 50 million euros.

Aramco in collaboration with Pasqal has recently inaugurated Saudi Arabia’s first quantum computer. They have also unveiled the first commercial Quantum Computing as a Service platform in the Middle East.

The Selective Catalytic Reduction catalysts manufacturer Cormetech provides emissions control for stationary power generation and industrial applications and will be acquired by Johnson Matthey for an enterprise value of 360 million dollars.

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Vulcan Energy’s Lionheart Project will be using Nesi’s proprietary Norscand electrolysis technology to convert lithium chloride into battery-quality lithium hydroxide monohydrate (LHM); a vital material used in electric vehicle batteries. The project is expected to have a production capacity of 24,000 tonnes of LHM annually.