Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Air Liquide Global E&C Solutions Germany to purchase the entirety of its Zimmer polymer technology business. Based in Frankfurt, Germany, the business includes technologies for the…
Mitsui Chemicals Inc. (MCI; Tokyo; www.mitsuichem.com) and China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) have announced the startup of what is said to be one of the world’s largest EPT (ethylene-propylene-dieneterpolymer) plants for a single train under their joint venture (JV),…
Alcoa Power and Propulsion, a unit of Alcoa Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.alcoa.com), is doubling its high-technology coating capacity at its Whitehall, Michigan facility. The $16.7 million investment will position the Company to further capture growing demand for advanced jet-engine parts.…
Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LP (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cpchem.com) announced completion of an ethylene expansion at its Sweeny complex in Old Ocean, Tex. With the addition of a tenth furnace to ethylene unit 33 at the Sweeny complex, the expansion…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has started up two new plant units for the production of crosslinking activators at its multi-user site in Wesseling. With triallyl cyanurate (TAC) and triallyl isocyanurate (TAICROS), the company now offers two high-quality crosslinking activators…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announced that it is acquiring Dhaymers, a Brazilian manufacturer of specialty esters, entering the skincare market and expanding its presence in industrial lubricants and mining industries in Latin America. …
Bayer MaterialScience AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.materialscience.bayer.de) has successfully concluded a major capital expenditure project in Germany. The company brought an ultra-efficient and resource-conserving world-scale plant for the production of the chemical toluene diisocyanate (TDI), a main component in high-quality foams,…
Air Liquide’s (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) Large Industries U.S. LP group hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for a new air-separation unit (ASU) that will produce oxygen, nitrogen and argon at its production facility in Port Neches, Tex. The new ASU will produce…
Total Energy Ventures (TEV), the venture capital arm of Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com), is investing in Solidia Technologies (Piscataway, N.J.; www.solidiatech.com), which has developed a process that uses carbon dioxide to manufacture sustainable cement and concrete. Solidia has…
Rivertop Renewables (Missoula, Mont.; www.rivertop.com) has begun construction of its first commercial plant, located at DanChem Technologies, Inc.’s (DTI, www.danchemtechnology.com) facility in Danville, Virginia. DTI, a custom manufacturer of fine and specialty chemical products, is expected to begin production of…