Login Register
About Us
Invite People

Share 4Engineers with your friends and help them get started!

Emails
Enter multiple email addresses by separating it with a comma.
Advanced Search
Back
4Engineers

Business News: August 2026

This article was originally posted on Chemical Engineering Online.
View article ->
Summary
Business roundup: Air Liquide will supply ultra-high-purity gases to a semiconductor fab in Arizona; INEOS and Recuro plan a plastics recycling facility in Norway; Solstice is acquiring Element Solutions in a $14.5-billion deal; and Covestro is buying Vencorex chemical plants in Thailand and Texas—highlighting continued semiconductor supply-chain buildout, circular plastics investments, and consolidation in specialty chemicals.

Which move do you think will have the biggest near-term impact on the sector—and why: the UHP gas supply expansion for chips, the new advanced recycling capacity, or the major M&A and asset acquisitions?

Air Liquide to supply ultra-high-purity gases to semiconductor fab in Arizona; INEOS and Recuro to build plastics recycling facility in Norway; Solstice to acquire Element Solutions in $14.5-billion deal; Covestro acquires Vencorex chemical plants in Thailand and Texas

The post Business News: August 2026 appeared first on Chemical Engineering.

Login to comment

Login
MikeHarlan
Aug 3 at 11:00 AM
Covestro taking over Vencorex’s Thailand and Texas sites could ripple through aliphatic isocyanate supply - are customers being asked to requalify HDI/IPDI grades, and how are lead times being protected during integration? On the Arizona fab, does Air Liquide’s package include onsite ASU with N+1 redundancy and dedicated backup power given summer peak constraints?

Related Conversations

Recent Conversations

Your Conversations

Report content
Reason Description