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CHEMICAL MANAGEMENT

Celanese Corporation | April 01, 2022

Celanese Corporation, a global chemical and specialty materials company, announced the restructuring of their joint venture Korea Engineering Plastics Co. It is a joint venture of 50% by Celanese and 50% by Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. (MGC). Celanese Corporation develops chemistry solutions and specialty materials used in most major industries and consumer applications. Celanese is headquartered in Dallas and employs approximately 8,500 people worldwide. K...

CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY

Eastman | January 17, 2022

This morning, French President Emmanuel Macron and Eastman Board Chair and CEO Mark Costa will jointly announce Eastman's plan to invest up to $1 billion in a material-to-material molecular recycling facility in France. This facility would use Eastman's polyester renewal technology to recycle up to 160,000 metric tonnes annually of hard-to-recycle plastic waste that is currently being incinerated. The investment would recycle enough plastic waste annually to fill Stade de ...

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

Honeywell | December 16, 2021

Honeywell announced an agreement with The University of Texas at Austin that will enable the lower-cost capture of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and heavy industry1. Honeywell will leverage UT Austin's proprietary advanced solvent technology to create a new offering targeted at power, steel, cement and other industrial plants to lower emissions generated from combustion flue gases in new or existing units. The solution provides these sectors with an additional too...