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Specialty chemical company Albemarle Corp. has signed a definitive agreement to sell its polyolefin catalysts and components business to W. R. Grace & Co.

The province of Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands, TNO (Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research), ECN (Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands) and the Flemish VITO are jointly investing €10 million in the development of bio-aromatics, sustainable raw materials for the chemical industry.

Flint Group has opened a new facility in the cosmopolitan district of Beylikduzu, in Istanbul, Turkey.

Reverdia has been awarded halal and kosher certifications for its Biosuccinium S grade of bio-succinic acid.

Specialty chemical company Clariant announced a new partnership in Turkey with the distributor Interplast.

BASF and SINOPEC will expand the production capacity of neopentylglycol at the Verbund site, BASF-YPC Co. Ltd., a 50-50 joint venture in Nanjing, China.

The Protech/Oxyplast Group of Montreal, Canada, has purchased Trimite Powders Inc. of Spartanburg. South Carolina.

AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals has signed an agreement that will see its Deventer site in the Netherlands transformed into a chemistry and technology innovation hub.

Eastman Chemical Co. has completed phase one of a two-phase expansion of its ketone manufacturing capacity at its Kingsport, Tennessee, operations.