chemicals

Tioxide Materials Limited (Tioxide) announced the successful recommissioning of the titanium dioxide (TiO₂) pigment production facility at Greatham in Hartlepool, marking a major milestone following LB Group’s acquisition of the site and its associated TiO₂ pigment assets earlier this year. Producti...

Rachel Brazil
2/5/2026

The ammonia production plant at Ludwigshafen, Germany, has operated for more than a century. It was the first to use the Haber-Bosch process, which garnered Nobel Prizes for its inventor and developer, Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch. Today, plants including this one run by the chemical company BASF are seeking more renewable ways to produce ammonia. Credit: BASF SE