BASF recently announced it is building a new world-scale production plant for alkylethanolamines at its Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium. 

Specialty chemicals innovator Perstorp is expanding the value proposition for its Engineered Fluids and Resins & Coatings segments with the addition of isononanoic acid to the portfolio.

Univar Solutions Inc. announced the opening of its latest Solution Center, located in Essen, Germany.

HB Chemical, a Ravago company, announced the acquisition of J. Drasner & Co. Inc., a supplier of batch inclusion packaging and specialty additives for the rubber and plastics industries. 

The Bodo Möller Chemie Group reports that it grew significantly in 2021 in spite of shortages of raw materials and enormous price increases in certain products.

Terra Firma recently announced that Dowd & Guild, based in Laguna Hills, California, and Northspec, based in Toronto, Canada, have joined the company through a partnership recapitalization.

Orion Engineered Carbons recently started commercial sales in Italy from a new 25-kiloton line at its facility in Ravenna, in the northern region of Emilia-Romagna. 

Flint Group recently confirmed the successful completion of the sale of its XSYS division to an affiliate of Lone Star Funds, a global private equity firm. 

OCSiAl’s graphene nanotube synthesis facility in Luxembourg, expected to be the largest of its kind, is scheduled to begin production in 2025. 

Westlake Chemical Corp. announced that it has officially changed its name to Westlake Corp.