Carbon Group

FM Global | October 15, 2020

FM Global has announced that it is creating a new division to further strengthen its focus on providing property risk management services for the forest products and chemical industries. Thirty-one-year company veteran James O’Brien, currently senior vice president and Central USA division manager, has been promoted to oversee the company’s new Canada and Specialty Industries Division. The current head of FM Global’s Canada division, Ken Lavigne, is retiring at the end of the y...

Grand Rapids Business Journal | April 10, 2020

A local chemical company is working to produce and sell more than 100,000 gallons of hand sanitizer it is making from denatured ethanol. Grand Rapids-based Haviland Enterprises, working with chemical supplier Rochester Hills-based Plymouth Technology, is taking advantage of a new Food and Drug Administration concession that allows the use of denatured ethanol in hand sanitizer production to make large volumes of it to help during the COVID-19 pandemic. While sheltering in place, Amanda Richie, C...

Chemical Technology

Azoty Grupa, Celanese | June 24, 2021

After it decided to cease its POM production, the Celanese Corporation, a global manufacturer of chemical and specialized materials, announced the acquisition by Grupa Azoty S.A. of Tarnow, Poland, of certain technologies polyacetal (POM) production products. To serve Azoty's clients, Celanese will accept all current contracts with Tarnoform. This transaction does not involve Azoty employees, physical assets, manufacturing facilities, or sales offices, except for certain equip...

Chemical Management

EnergySource Minerals | May 04, 2022

EnergySource Minerals today announced a new round of investment led by Schlumberger New Energy and TechMet Ltd. The Schlumberger New Energy investment includes a strategic partnership to accelerate the deployment of the ILiAD lithium extraction platform and integrate it into the front end of the process used by NeoLith Energy, a Schlumberger New Energy venture. The platform has been piloted at demonstration scale for over 6 years on a variety of real-world brines. Schlumberger will scale up test...