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BUSINESS Business Roundup ShareShare onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail C&EN, 2023, 101 (3), p 15January 23, 2023Cite this:C&EN 101, 3, 15AbstractChemours has picked Villers-Saint-Paul, France, as the site for a $200 million capacity expansion of its Nafion ion-exchange materials, used in water electrolyzers that produce hydrogen. The firm said last fall that it was considering sites in the US and Europe. Orica and Saudi Chemical will work together to build nitric acid and ammonium nitrate plants in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Chemical says the planned facility will be the first of its kind in the region. Novozymes has entered a partnership to supply enzymes to Carbios, which has developed an enzymatic process to break down polyethylene terephthalate into its raw materials, terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol. Carbios’s first commercial-scale plant using its technology is set to open in France in 2025. PureCycle Technologies has selected the Port of Antwerp-Bruges as the location of the first European plant to use its solvent-based process to recycle polypropylene. The company’s first plant is underView: PDF | Full Text HTML

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