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BUSINESS Business Roundup ShareShare onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail C&EN, 2021, 99 (31), p 13August 30, 2021Cite this:C&EN 99, 31, 13AbstractClariant has agreed to acquire the 70% it does not already own of Beraca, a Brazilian personal care specialties firm, from the Sabará family. Beraca claims to collect and extract fats, oils, and botanical ingredients in an environmentally sustainable way. It has 90 employees and annual sales of $15 million. Raven SR has received $20 million in investment from companies including Chevron and Itochu. Wyoming-based Raven has a steam–carbon dioxide reformation process for making hydrogen from organic waste that it plans to roll out for the first time in California. Sumitomo Chemical plans to build a pilot polymethyl methacrylate recycling plant at its site in Niihama, Japan, by the end of 2022. The plant will use a pyrolysis process to break down the acrylic resin into its monomer, methyl methacrylate. Stora Enso , a wood products firm, has opened a pilot facility in Sunila, Finland, that uses lignin separated fromView: PDF | Full Text HTML
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