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Saint-Gobain divests glassprocessing
assets in Germany
March 10, 2020 - Saint-Gobain S.A.
(Courbevoie, France; www.saint-gobain.
com) sold part of its glass-processing
business, Glassolutions Germany, to
DIK Deutsche Industriekapital GmbH.
The divestment concerns seven German
sites: Bremen, Flensburg, Freiburg, Kiel,
Murr, Potsdam and Rostock. These sites
delivered sales of €45 million in 2019.
Henkel and Covestro collaborate
on adhesives for LIB assembly
March 3, 2020 - Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
(Düsseldorf, Germany; www.henkel.
com) and Covestro AG (Leverkusen,
Germany; www.covestro.com) recently
developed a solution enabling the
efficient fixation of cylindrical lithium-ion
battery (LIB) cells inside a plastic cell
holder. The solution is based on an
ultraviolet (UV) light curing adhesive
from Henkel and a UV-transparent
polycarbonate blend from Covestro.
Sekisui and Sumitomo join
forces for waste-to-polyolefins
conversion
Feb. 27, 2020 - Sekisui Chemical Co.
(Osaka, Japan; www.sekisuichemical.
com) and Sumitomo Chemical Corp.
(Tokyo, Japan; www.sumitomo-chem.
co.jp) will form a strategic alliance to
deploy technology for manufacturing
polyolefins using chemically recycled
waste as a raw material. Pilot production
will begin in 2022, with Sekisui Chemical
turning waste into ethanol, and Sumitomo
Chemical using this ethanol as a raw
material for polyolefins. A full-scale launch
of this process is expected in 2025.
Mitsubishi Chemical to
boost plastics recycling with
acquisitions
Feb. 26, 2020 - Mitsubishi Chemical
Corp. (MCC; Tokyo; www.m-chemical.
co.jp) will acquire two engineering plastics
recyclers, Minger Kunststofftechnik AG
and Minger Plastic AG (collectively, the
Minger Group, headquartered in Appenzell,
Switzerland; www.minger.ch). The Minger
Group has proprietary recycling technologies
for engineering plastics, such as polyether
ether ether ketone (PEEK), polyvinylidene
difluoride (PVDF) and nylon.
Avantium sells its
bioaromatics portfolio
Feb. 26, 2020 - Avantium (Amsterdam,
the Netherlands; www.avantium.com)
has sold its bioaromatics patent portfolio
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to The Netherlands Organization for
Applied Scientific Research (TNO). The
sale includes patents and know-how for
technologies that produce bio-derived
products for polymers and coatings.
OCI and Posco form JV for
hydrogen peroxide production
Feb. 24, 2020 - OCI Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South
Korea; www.oci.co.kr) and Posco Chemical
(Pohang-si, South, Korea; www.posco.
com) signed a joint agreement to produce
electronic-grade and industrial hydrogen
peroxide using coke-oven gas (COG),
a byproduct of steelmaking processes.
The JV is scheduled to go into operation
in the second quarter of 2020, with 49%
of its shares owned by OCI and 51%
by Posco Chemical, respectively. The
two companies plan to build a hydrogen
peroxide plant at OCI's Gwangyang
site with a total production capacity of
50,000 m.t./yr. They are anticipating
commercial production to begin
in 2022.
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