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Global specialty chemicals leader Nouryon today published its 2025 sustainability report, highlighting progress across environmental performance, workplace standards and sustainable innovation. The results showcase continuing efforts to reduce emissions, improve safety, expand living wage analysis and develop solutions to enable more sustainable products and processes across consumer and industrial markets.

A consortium of world-leading companies comprising Air Liquide, Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals), Enerkem and the Port of Rotterdam – has announced that Shell will join as a partner in Europe’s first advanced waste-to-chemicals facility in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Nouryon is now certified to the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification standard ISCC PLUS for the production of green ethylene oxide, ethanolamines, ethylene amines, and the surfactants derived from these raw materials at its site in Stenungsund, Sweden. The Company is a leading global producer of ethylene amines and surfactants.

Investing in Icos Capital Fund IV, a collaborative venture capital fund connecting corporations and financial institutions with start-ups that have a potential for fast growth. The investment strategy of the Icos Capital Fund IV will be focused on new and emerging technologies in the areas of sustainable industry, decarbonization technologies, circular economy, and sustainable food systems.

AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals has officially broken ground for construction of a state-of-the-art organic peroxide production facility in Tianjin, China.

AkzoNobel’s Specialty Chemicals business has broken ground at its Kvarntorp plant in Sweden as part of a project to expand production capacity for chelated micronutrients, which are used as essential minerals in the agricultural market.

AkzoNobel and chemicals manufacturing company Atul have formally agreed the joint venture partnership announced last year for the production of monochloroacetic acid (MCA) in India. The companies will establish a new plant at Atul’s facility in Gujarat by first quarter 2019, with each partner holding a 50% stake in the joint venture, to be registered as “ANAVEN”.

AkzoNobel has teamed up with two organizations focused on supporting start-ups, Lux Research and StartupDelta. The partnerships will focus on developing business opportunities stemming from the company’s Imagine Chemistry start-up challenge. Designed to solve real-life chemistry challenges, the initiative has attracted more than 200 submissions.

An enthusiastic response to AkzoNobel’s Imagine Chemistry initiative has resulted in more than 200 innovative ideas being submitted by chemistry start-ups, scientists, research groups and students around the world.

AkzoNobel is launching Imagine Chemistry, an exciting opportunity to partner with start-up firms, students, research groups and career scientists from across the world to jointly exploit the knowledge of chemistry and solve several real-life chemistry-related challenges.

Nouryon introduces its Expancel® 081 microspheres grade at the Pulp and Beyond 2026 event in Helsinki, Finland, from April 15—16, 2026. An innovative bulking agent, Expancel 081 addresses two of the biggest cost and sustainability drivers in paperboard production – fiber use and energy consumption. Specifically, Expancel 081 microspheres uniquely address the rising pressure faced by paperboard mills to increase the use of recycled fiber or fillers without losing key sheet properties like stiffness, bulk and thickness, and keep energy use in check.

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A look back at the chemical industry in innovation terms clearly shows that there have been two significant eras of development. The first, which dates back to the early 1800s, involved the development of products such as paints or soaps that could be derived from natural oils and minerals.

Green and sustainable monochloroacetic acid transforms chemical intermediates, yielding the same performance with a lower carbon footprint.

Nouryon's MicrOx™ hydrogen peroxide is used to remove micropollutants from wastewater in Oosterwold, The Netherlands.