Specialty chemicals company Nouryon recently announced that it is further strengthening its sustainability commitments by joining the United Nations Global Compact, the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative.
AkzoNobel is expanding its long-term position in South and Central America after reaching an agreement to acquire Colombia-based paints and coatings company Grupo Orbis.
Project Air, an industrial concept to produce methanol from a large variety of recovered end-of-life streams and hydrogen from electrolysis, has now been allocated approximately €30 million by the Swedish Energy Agency and is now applying to the EU Innovation Fund.
The Ariake Gymnastics Centre, incorporating multiple Dow technologies, will be home to gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline competitions for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.
Coatings thickness measurement technology firm coatmaster AG recently announced the acquisition of CoatChecker GmbH, a specialist in non-destructive measurement of sealing layers.