Korea’s construction materials corporation KCC Glass officially commenced operations at its newly built glass manufacturing plant in Indonesia. KCC Glass channeled $300 million to build the factory with an annual production capacity of 438,000 tons.
The British government acquired a U.S.-owned semiconductor manufacturing plant in northern England to secure supply lines for its military. The facility, reportedly at risk of being closed down, is one of the last remaining producers of gallium arsenide chips in the country. The now government-owned plant will be called Octric Semiconductors U.K.
Heidelberg Materials has started a feasibility study for a decarbonisation project at its Rezzato Mazzano cement plant in the province of Brescia, which could become the first plant in Italy to produce carbon captured net-zero cement and concrete.
Advanced materials provider Momentive Technologies completed the acquisition of Sibelco’s spherical alumina and spherical silica businesses located in the Republic of Korea.
AGC Glass Europe and photovoltaic glass recycler ROSI entered into a partnership to recycle and reuse high volumes of photovoltaic glass in the production of flat glass.
Tiama and TME Engineering formed a partnership through which Tiama will distribute technology developed by TME Engineering, rebranded as a Tiama product. The rebranded product, the Tiama HOT blank, is designed to measure and automatically regulate the temperature of blank molds and plungers.
Wiley is hosting a webinar series on building better batteries that starts on October 16. Learn from numerous experts about batteries, including Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry Sir Michael Stanley Whittingham.
SCHOTT Pharma is celebrating its first anniversary as a listed company on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Over the past year, SCHOTT Pharma has initiated and progressed with ambitious projects to expand its network of production sites in Europe and the United States.
Westinghouse Electric Company announced that it will transform its Operating Plant Services business into two new global business units: Long-Term Operations and Outage & Maintenance Services, effective Jan. 1, 2025.
materialsIN, co-founded by University at Buffalo faculty member Krishna Rajan, offers companies a data-powered software platform that transforms materials discovery, streamlines production, and drives sustainability.
Centorr Vacuum Industries announced that it has named Sean P. Murphy to the position of product manager for laboratory and R&D furnaces. He will be responsible for more than 30 different vacuum furnace product lines used in laboratory settings for the metals, ceramics, and carbon/graphite/composites industries.
Calderys announced the appointment of Sander Bovee as chief financial officer, effective Oct. 1, 2024. Bovee joins from Nouryon (previously AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals), a specialty chemicals company operating in more than 80 countries.
The high cost of installing heat pumps for home heating could slow down people widely adopting the technology and leave government targets missed, according to researchers at the University of Edinburgh and Imperial College London.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office announced an intent to release the Wind Turbine Technology Recycling Funding Opportunity, which plans to invest $20 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
United States President Joe Biden signed legislation exempting certain U.S. semiconductor manufacturing facilities, receiving government subsidies, from additional federal environmental reviews.
Kyocera announced the fall 2024 launch of its limited-edition, two-piece ceramic knife set commemorating its 40 years of ceramic cutlery innovation. Kyocera introduced Japan’s first ceramic knife at Japan’s International Crafts Expo in Kyoto on Oct. 1, 1984.
Corning Incorporated unveiled its new EXTREME ULE Glass, which can withstand the highest intensity extreme ultraviolet lithography. This property allows manufacturers to use the most advanced photomasks to pattern and print the smallest, most complex chip designs.
C-Crete Technologies poured the world’s first granite-based concrete at 270 Park Avenue in Manhattan, the site of JPMorganChase’s new global headquarters. The granite-based concrete does not contain any Portland cement, but it still demonstrates pumpability, workability, setting time, and surface finish akin to conventional concrete.
Together with its Alliance to Zero partners Schreiner MediPharm and Körber Pharma, SCHOTT Pharma developed a new packaging concept for prefilled syringes that reduces both plastic and packaging waste and CO2 emissions.
