Belgian chemicals and recycling company Umicore is teaming up with German carmaker Volkswagen in a joint venture to produce cathode materials for VW’s battery cell...
26.04.2017
- German chemical giant BASF and Chicago, USA-based Argonne National Laboratory have settled out of court their running patent disputes with Belgium’s Umicore. The two companies said...
07.02.2017
- Belgian chemical group Solvay has acquired DuPont’s Energain lithium-ion high voltage technology for an undisclosed sum. The Brussels-headquartered company said Energain will...
01.12.2016
- Polyolefins producer Borealis has awarded a contract to Jacobs Engineering to carry out a feasibility study for its proposed second propane dehydrogenation (PDH) at Kallo in...
31.10.2016
- Two Japanese companies, Ube Industries and Mitsubishi Chemical, have agreed to combine their electrolyte businesses in China in a 50:50 joint venture. The deal aimed at enhancing...
14.08.2016
- UK specialty chemical and technology company Johnson Matthey has signed a patent license agreement with 3M to further expand the use of nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) cathode...
11.08.2016
- Germany’s BASF and Japan’s Toda Kogyo are in exclusive talks to extend an existing Japanese collaboration in cathode active materials (CAM) and precursors to North America. Last...
29.04.2016
- Belgium’s Umicore, a leading supplier of cathode materials for batteries, is accelerating its capacity expansion plans to meet a surge in demand from hybrid and electric vehicles...
