Clariant Catalysts has opened a new R&D center at its One Clariant Campus (OCC) in Shanghai. The research unit is part of the Swiss specialty chemicals producer’s new Innovation Center China in the east coast metropolis. The company counts itself among a handful of international players to have built a full-fledged comprehensive catalyst research unit in China.
The European Chemical Industry has set out on an ambitious path to become carbon neutral. Germany, as one of the major chemical manufacturing nations, has committed to achieve this goal by 2050.
Clariant and India Glycols Limited (IGL) are forming a joint venture for renewable ethylene oxide (EO) derivatives. To support production, IGL has entered into long-term supply agreement for EO made from bio-ethanol as well as further utilities.
The European Chemical Industry has set out on an ambitious path to become carbon neutral.
Clariant has signed a cooperation agreement with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) to support research in catalysis and sustainable chemistry. It is providing the university with what it says is “a significant financial contribution” over an initial period of ten years. Terms were not disclosed.
The board of directors at Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant has tapped Conrad Keijzer to be the company’s new CEO. The 52-year-old Dutch citizen will take up the job on Jan. 1, 2021, and interim CEO Harriolf Kottmann will again focus on his duties as chairman of the board.
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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