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BUSINESS Business Roundup ShareShare onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail C&EN, 2020, 98 (22), p 13June 8, 2020Cite this:C&EN 98, 22, 13AbstractAltivia, a privately held chemical company, has acquired KMCO’s Crosby, Texas, ethoxylation facility out of bankruptcy proceedings. KMCO had a fire and explosion last year that killed one worker. Syngenta is an investor in a $7 million round of seed funding for Greeneye Technology, an Israeli start-up developing an artificial intelligence platform that detects weeds in real time to spray them individually. When installed on commercial sprayers, the system can reduce herbicide use by more than 65%, according to Greeneye. H.I.G. Capital has invested in USALCO, a Baltimore-based maker of aluminum chemicals used in water treatment and refinery catalysts. H.I.G., a private equity firm, says it now has 10 chemical investments. Covestro is introducing a polycarbonate film in which more than 50% of its carbon content comes from plant-based oils supplied by the Finnish firm Neste. Covestro says the film will have a carbon footprint that is 20% of aView: PDF | Full Text HTML
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