After downsizing operations through divestments over the past year, Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant now plans to restructure its corporate organization to reflect the present leaner status and shift the emphasis of its portfolio to higher value-added products.
Clariant has announced it will build a new catalyst plant in China, its third in the country, as the Swiss group strives to strengthen its existing network.
Swiss specialty chemicals company Clariant has formed a strategic partnership with engineering group Chemtex to market its sunliquid technology as well as services and supplies for advanced biofuel plants in China.
Clariant has signed a licensing deal for its sunliquid cellulosic ethanol technology with Bulgaria’s Eta Bio. The Swiss specialty chemicals group said the agreement, the fourth for sunliquid, represents another significant step toward the technology’s commercialization and also gives it a foothold in the agricultural sector.
The European Commission has fined Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant €155.8 million for its role in an ethylene purchasing scheme that also implicated other chemical producers, including US-based Celanese.
Clariant is collaborating with Ineratec, a spin-off from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), to develop and commercialize novel technologies for producing renewable fuels and chemicals.
Major construction and engineering group TechnipFMC has entered into a joint development agreement with Clariant Catalysts to commercialize the Swiss company’s new AcryloMax propylene ammoxidation catalyst to produce fiber intermediate acrylonitrile (ACN).
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