Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cpchem.com) has announced that it has finalized the sale to Grand Astor Limited of Chevron Phillips Chemical’s affiliate company Chevron Phillips Chemical (China) Co. Ltd., which owns a polystyrene plant located in…
AkzoNobel (Amsterdam; www.AkzoNobel.com) has strengthened its manufacturing footprint in India by opening a new €20 million decorative paints plant in Gwalior, which will have a capacity of 55 million L/yr. The new Greenfield facility – AkzoNobel’s sixth factory in India…
Ametek, Inc. (Berwyn, Pa.; www.ametek.com) has acquired Creaform, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of portable 3-D measurement technologies and a provider of 3-D engineering services for approximately $120 million. Based near Québec City, Canada, the privately held company has annual…
Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. (Columbus, Ohio; www.momentive.com) has announced that it has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Kanoria Chemicals & Industries Limited (Kanoria) to form a joint venture (JV) that would construct a new phenolic specialty resins…
Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.; www.bv.com) has been selected as the Engineer of Record for the Marine Works and Desalination components on the $3.43 billion Escondida Water Supply (EWS) project in Chile. Black & Veatch's role is leading the…
Albemarle Corporation (Baton Rouge, La.; www.albemarle.com), a developer and manufacturer of antioxidants for the polymers, fuel and lube industries, has announced that it completed installation of a granulation and blending system in Shanghai, thus adding capacity and product forms to…
Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. (Woodridge, Ill.; www.elevance.com), a high-growth specialty chemicals company, announced that it has authorized the next significant stage of its second world-scale biorefinery in Natchez, Miss., in order to expand production of its Inherent-brand renewable building blocks…
Eastman Chemical Company (Kingsport, Tenn.; www.eastman.com), in conjunction with Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies Limited (JM Davy), has developed advanced proprietary technology for the production of ethylene glycol from synthesis gas-based feedstocks. Ethylene glycol, commonly referred to as mono ethylene glycol…
Evonik Industries (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) started up a new plant for manufacturing biodiesel-production catalysts in Argentina. With a capacity of over 60,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr), the new production plant will supply ready-to-use alkoxides for use as catalysts in…
W. R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.; www.grace.com) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of the Unipol Polypropylene Licensing and Catalysts business of The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) for a cash purchase…