Air Products Debuts Clean Energy Lab

More Business Concentrates

• Biopharma Firms Reacquire Operations
• A few years after divesting businesses, two biopharmaceutical companies are buying them back...
• DuPont Launches Battery Separator
• DuPont has launched a new line of nanofiber-based separators for lithium-ion batteries that it will make at a new plant in Chesterfield County, Va...
• Judge Halts Mosaic Mine
• A U.S. district court judge in Florida issued a preliminary injunction forbidding fertilizer maker Mosaic from expanding its South Fort Meade phosphate mine...
• Ineos Will Sell Films Unit
• Ineos Group has signed an agreement to sell its polyvinyl chloride and polyethylene terephthalate films business to India’s Bilcare...
• Eastman Supplies Polymers For Skateboards …
• This month, Heelys, the maker of shoes with wheels in the heels, is launching skateboards that incorporate Eastman’s Tritan polyester copolymer...
• … And Eyes Membrane For Carbon Capture
• Eastman Chemical and Eltron Research & Development will jointly scale up and test Eltron’s membrane system for hydrogen separation and carbon capture...
• Hanwha Acquires Chinese Solar Firm
• South Korea’s Hanwha Chemical will spend about $350 million to acquire a 49.99% stake in China’s Solarfun Power...
• JSR Boosts Solution Rubber In Japan
• JSR will increase capacity for solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber (S-SBR) at its plant in Yokkaichi, Japan...
• PerkinElmer Acquires Imaging Firm VisEn
• PerkinElmer has acquired VisEn Medical, a Bedford, Mass.-based in vivo molecular imaging technology firm with about 50 employees...
• Air Products Debuts Clean Energy Lab
• Air Products & Chemicals has opened a clean energy combustion lab at its headquarters in Allentown, Pa...
• GSK Inks Pact With Amplimmune
• GlaxoSmithKline will pay up to $508 million for access to Amplimmune’s protein fusion therapies that target PD-1...
• Shire To Get Movetis
• Shire has agreed to pay $430 million for Movetis, a Belgium-based specialty pharmaceuticals firm focused on gastrointestinal products...
• Astellas Cuts OSI Operations
• Just a month after completing its acquisition of OSI Pharmaceuticals, Japanese drugmaker Astellas is already making cuts at the biotech firm...
• Business Roundup
• Chemtura, Clariant, Eastman Chemical, Huntsman Corp., Albemarle, BASF, Saudi International Petrochemical, Aptuit, Seattle Genetics, PPD...

Topics Covered

clean energy, combustion, carbon capture