LyondellBasell (LYB) has pledged to cover at least 50% of its energy needs from renewable sources by 2030.

IMCD Switzerland has appointed Christoph Garbotz as Managing Director for Switzerland, effective as of July 1, 2022.

AkzoNobel has appointed Gregoire Poux-Guillaume as its new chief executive with effect from Nov. 1, 2022. The 52-year-old French national will succeed Thierry Vanlancker...

German chemical giant BASF has announced it will build a commercial scale battery recycling black mass plant in at its Schwarzheide, Germany, site, strengthening the...

With an eye to expanding production capacity for silicon metal, Germany’s Wacker Chemie has launched a feasibility study to carry out a capacity upgrade at its site in...

Shell and Dow have started up an experimental unit to electrically heat steam cracker furnaces in the Netherlands.

BASF Shanshan Battery Materials (BSBM), a 51:49 joint venture of the German chemical giant and China’s Hunan Shanshan Energy, is expanding its battery materials capacity...

Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem) is planning to build a new polyalphaolefins (PAO) plant in Beringen, Belgium, to meet growing demand. The “significant investment” will...

Chemours, the former DuPont chemicals business, is looking at investing in additional ionomers capacity to support growing demand into water electrolysis and fuel cell...

Johnson Matthey has agreed to sell parts of its Battery Materials business in two separate transactions, marking a turnaround from its decision in January to close the...