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JSR | September 17, 2021

JSR announced today that it has signed an agreement for the acquisition of Corvallis, OR based Inpria Corporation, the world’s leading innovator of metal oxide photoresist design, development and manufacturing for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, for USD $514 million. EUV technology is already in use in commercial production in the most advanced lithography processes used in semiconductor manufacturing and, as the industry moves to smaller critical dimensions in chip manufacturing, i...

C&EN | March 30, 2020

The US chemical industry is endorsing the Environmental Protection Agency’s sweeping new policy to go easy on companies for all but criminal violations because of the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2. But environmentalists and others criticize the new EPA policy as too expansive. They say it endangers the safety of workers, the public, and chemical plants. The EPA’s temporary enforcement policy, unveiled March 26, is broad yet does not treat all violations the same. F...

The Chemical Engineer | February 13, 2020

TECHNOLOGY innovation centre CPI has partnered with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) as part of the learned society’s Synergy programme. The programme aims to promote cross-industry collaboration to enable participating companies to tackle complex chemical science challenges that can hinder development. It can be difficult for companies facing chemistry-related problems early in the innovation process to source the expertise needed to identify commercially-viable solutions. The issue i...

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PRNewswire | June 20, 2023

Kraton Corporation, a leading global sustainable producer of specialty polymers and high-value biobased products, is pleased to announce the expansion of its manufacturing capabilities in Berre, France, to produce up to 100% ISCC PLUS certified renewable Styrenic Block Copolymers (SBC) as part of the CirKular+™ ReNew Series via mass balance approach. CirKular+ ReNew Series enables up to 85% cradle-to-gate carbon footprint reduction* (including biogenic carbon) compared to fossil-base...