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DOMO Chemicals invests to expand production capacity of TECHNYL® polyamide in China to meet growing market demand
DOMO Chemicals, a global leader in engineered materials, announced a long-term investment plan in China to continue expanding its production capacity of TECHNYL®high-performance polyamides. This plan aims to meet growing demand in the automotive, electrical & electronics, and industrial consumer goods industries, and help build a sustainable future. DOMO Chemicals acquired Solvay's Performance Polyamides business in 2020 and has sold the TECHNYL® products globally since February 1, 2022, including in China, one of the company's key strategic markets.
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SANITIZED AG, the specialist for hygiene function in textiles, is expanding its Sanitized® OdorexTM portfolio for odor- neutralizing technologies. The new OX20 product is usable on cotton, viscose, or synthetic fibers. It does not contain any biocides, it is highly wash-resistant, and it can be combined well with other effects.
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Covestro has had a successful start to fiscal year 2022 and benefited from continuing buoyant demand in the first three months of this year. The Group’s sales increased by 41.6 percent, compared with the prior-year quarter, to EUR 4.7 billion (previous year: EUR 3.3 billion), in particular off the back of higher average selling prices.
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Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI), CO2 Value Europe (CVE) and nova-Institute publish a study showing the CO2 reduction potential of the chemical industry through CCU
Today, the production of chemicals and derived materials heavily relies on the use of fossil carbon. Industrial processes need hydrocarbons to provide process energy (electricity and heat) for manifold processes and to provide embedded carbon (i.e. the carbon bound in the molecular structure) as feedstock for diverse substances, building blocks, intermediates and derived materials such as polymers or detergents.
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Garmon Chemicals introduces sustainable “Power Saving” approach to support customers in reducing costs and resource consumption
Kemin Industries, a global ingredient manufacturer that strives to sustainably transform the quality of life every day for 80 percent of the world with its products and services, announced today that Garmon Chemicals, the company’s textile auxiliaries business unit that provides chemical solutions for the denim and fashion industry, recently introduced "Power Saving"—an integrated approach to sustainability that combines processes and chemicals to save resources and reduce costs—at the denim industry show, Kingpins Amsterdam.
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Golden wedding for molecules
Chemical syntheses in liquids and gases take place in three-dimensional space. Random collisions between molecules have to result in something new in an extremely short time. But there is another way: on a gold surface under ultrahigh vacuum conditions, molecules lying still next to each other can be made to combine - even those that would never want to react with each other in a liquid. Researchers at Empa have now discovered such a reaction. Best of all, the experts can "take pictures" and watch every step of the reaction.
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Ascend Performance Materials has reached an agreement to acquire the compounding division of Formulated Polymers Limited, a leading engineered materials manufacturer in Chennai, India. This acquisition will establish Ascend’s first manufacturing base in the subcontinent and strengthen Ascend’s global reach in the electrical and e-mobility application space.
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DOMO Chemicals, a global leader in engineered material solutions and fully integrated producer of PA6, announced today the successful delivery of 5 million tonnes of caprolactam at its Leuna site. The Leuna site has produced caprolactam in its facilities since 1942. This quantity is equivalent to approximately 225,000 truckloads. The German subsidiary DOMO Caproleuna has been producing caprolactam and polyamide at the site in the heart of Europe since 1994. During this period, production capacities have been gradually expanded to the current 176,000 metric tonnes per year.
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Covestro pioneers the supply of renewable¹ TDI
Covestro is again expanding its range of more circular raw materials and now offers customers in various regions renewable toluene diisocyanate (TDI) which provides a significant reduction of the CO2 footprint from cradle to factory gate2 – with the same high quality as fossil-based products.
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HeiQ launches HeiQ Synbio, an innovative cleaning line using prebiotics and probiotics
Zurich-based materials innovation company HeiQ launches the new Synbio cleaning range in Switzerland. The patented technology uses probiotics, so-called “good bacteria,” to sustainably clean surfaces and textiles while protecting people, pets and the environment. With HeiQ Synbio, HeiQ is responding to growing consumer interest in health, hygiene and safety. The development of the products was made possible by the acquisition of the Belgian company Chrisal in March 2021.
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Strong full year 2021 for Covestro
Covestro had a successful fiscal year 2021. The Group benefited from strong global demand and buoyant earnings in the year as a whole. Core volumes sold increased by 10 percent year on year, mainly due to additional volumes from the Resins & Functional Materials (RFM) business acquired from DSM. In particular, the rise in selling prices on the back of high demand meant that Group sales increased by 48.5 percent to EUR 15.9 billion (previous year: EUR 10.7 billion) – the highest ever level in Covestro’s history.
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Cambridge technology innovator Alchemie exports breakthrough textile dyeing solution to Taiwan
Alchemie Technology, the UK innovator of low energy, waterless, textile dyeing technology, ships its Endeavour machine to Taiwan to improve the sustainability of the textile dyeing industry and establish a new Asia showcase.
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Livinguard and TEXTILCOLOR enter into a global partnership
Swiss-based hygiene technology company Livinguard is proud to announce their partnership with Swiss textile specialists TEXTILCOLOR AG. The partnership aims to deliver Livinguard technologies to a global audience across more than 50 countries. As consumers around the world pay more attention to health and hygiene, this partnership delivers innovative antibacterial and antiviral odor control solutions from Livinguard with the global reach and textile expertise of TEXTILCOLOR, setting a new standard for the textile industry.
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Covestro receives ISCC Plus certification for its Leverkusen and Dormagen sites
Covestro has now received the internationally recognized ISCC Plus mass balance certification for its Leverkusen and Dormagen sites. Together with the Krefeld-Uerdingen site, which was already certified a year ago, the company can now supply its customers with large product volumes from renewably attributed raw materials from all three Lower Rhine sites in Germany.
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