Press Releases

Celanese Corporation, a global chemical and specialty materials company, earned three category-winning awards at the 53rd annual Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Automotive Innovation Awards Competition and Gala last night in Livonia, Michigan. Hytrel® TPC-ET, Zytel® PA66, and Celanex® PBT proved worthy of this year’s awards theme, “Power of Plastics,” and were featured in the following category-winning advanced mobility applications: Chass

Eastman Chemical Company today announced it is making an investment to upgrade and expand its extrusion capability for production of Interlayers product lines at its manufacturing facility in Ghent, Belgium. The investment will strengthen Eastman’s supply capability to respond to growing regional and global demand for Saflex™ polyvinyl butyral (PVB) products in the Automotive Premiums market while also positioning the site for future growth in both automotive and architecture segm

Evonik is unveiling its latest innovations in PA12 polymer applications for 3D printing at Formnext 2024, the highlight exposition and convention for the world’s additive manufacturing community. Most notably on display will be the company’s PA12 based INFINAM® 6013 P and INFINAM® 6014 P 3D-printable powders, which through a feat of engineering, possess a relatively substantial amount of carbon black in the core of each particle. Produced through the pr

ULVAC, Inc. has announced a new oil rotary vacuum pump Gv135 optimized for the analytical equipment industry. This product addresses the industry's need for quiet operation in analytical environments and is designed to improve operational productivity through advanced noise reduction and robust oil leakage and backflow prevention measures. Quiet Operation in Sensitive Environments Vacuum pumps are increasingly used in quiet environments such as re

The Chemours Company a global leader in delivering innovative performance chemistry, today announced the winners of its fourth annual Carrier of the Year Award, which recognizes excellence in the transportation of Ti-Pure™ titanium dioxide (TiO2) to Chemours customers. Hirschbach Transportation Services received the Platinum Award and Marten Transport received the Gold Award. This is the third year in a row that these carriers have received the top two awards of the program.

The Philadelphia Eagles and Braskem, the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas, as well as a global market leader and pioneer producer of biopolymers on an industrial scale, have enhanced their partnership with the launch of their new STEM education program, Tackling STEM, for the 2024-2025 academic school year. Tackling STEM is an education program that delivers free digital and hands-on interactive STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education opportunities to stud

The Oil & Gas Decarbonization Charter (OGDC) published on November 11, its Baseline Report, setting a foundation to help prioritize and track progress on emissions reductions made by the 54 oil and gas companies - representing almost 45% of the global oil production, that have signed up to the Charter’s ambitions. These ambitions include to work toward net-zero operations by 2050, near-zero upstream methane emissions and zero routine flaring by 2030 in addition to measurin

Inmotive announced today that it is entering a strategic partnership agreement with Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd., a Tier 1 automotive supplier in Japan. Under the agreement, the two companies will collaborate to accelerate the adoption of Inmotive's Ingear 2-speed transmission in the two- and three-wheel vehicle market. Bando Chemical Industries is a global supplier of power transmission belts and conveyor belts, with significant experience providing transmission belts for tw

The recent addition of the PCS 1.2 and PCS 2.2, Peabody now offers a total of five sizes of pump containment enclosures to meet a variety of operational needs. These sizes are available with or without covers and can include an optional divider (at an additional charge), that allows for separate chemical containment, minimizing the risk of cross-contamination. "We are excited to add these two new sizes to our PCS containment enclosure portfolio. The entire line includes new fea

Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has acquired shares of PeptiStar Inc. (“PeptiStar”) in a private placement. The investment has been completed. Through this capital alliance, Sumitomo Chemical will work to further enhance its capacity to ensure a stable supply of high-purity long-chain guide RNA (gRNA) *1, while integrating Sumitomo Chemical’s and PeptiStar’s technologies to meet diversifying customer needs. PeptiStar was founded in

HydroGraph Clean Power Inc.a leader in sustainable commercial manufacturer of graphene, today announced a technological advancement which hopes to revolutionize across various sectors. As the global polyethylene terephthalate (PET) packaging industry faces unprecedented regulatory pressure to reduce virgin plastic consumption, HydroGraph discovers that its Fractal Graphene powder (FGA-1) dramatically improves the performance and sustainability of PET bottles. "These p

Clariant is expanding its storage capacity in Scandinavia for the use of recycled mono propylene glycol (MPG), used in its aircraft deicing fluids. Two new storage tanks and a truck unloading station have been installed at the company’s Uddevalla facility in Sweden to increase capacity and optimize handling of the product. In 2023, the Clariant facility began using significant amounts of recycled MPG for Type I deicing products, offering customers high-performance products wit