Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is expanding its presence in Latin America by opening a new technical center for construction applications and a new subsidiary in Bogotá, Colombia. The technical facility serves as a development and testing laboratory…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) today held a groundbreaking ceremony at Covestro’s Baytown, Texas facility where Air Products will invest $350–400 million to build, own and operate a world-scale steam methane reformer (SMR). The SMR will produce hydrogen…
SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) announces four recent contracts awarded by Sasol in South Africa. The first three contracts are based in the town of Secunda, located at approximately 130 km east of Johannesburg. They are: EPC modifications for the…
The Turkish steel producer Erdemir Group and the German technology company The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) have signed a Letter of Intent to form a joint venture (JV) in order to build a new air separation unit (ASU)…
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) announced that its subsidiary, The Babcock & Wilcox Co., has been awarded a contract to supply emissions control equipment for a carbon black manufacturing facility in the U.S. B&W has been…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) have reached a general agreement on the sale of the industrial coatings business of BASF’s Coatings division (www.basf-coatings.com) to AkzoNobel for €475 million. The transaction would include technologies,…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded a contract by KGHM (www.kghm.com) to provide engineering and procurement services for a 480 metric ton per day Dorr Oliver FluoSolids roaster system for the Glogow I Copper Smelter Optimization Project in Glogow,…
From April 1, 2016, Torsten Derr (46), currently head of the Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) Board of Management’s Commercial & Supply Chain Excellence Initiative, will take over as head of Saltigo, a subsidiary of the specialty chemicals company.…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.de) plans to build a new production line for special polyamide 12 powder (PA12) in Marl, Germany with an investment volume in the mid double-digit million-euro range. The new plant, which is scheduled to…
Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) will open permanent offices in Tehran, Iran. The decision is made based on the company’s deep-rooted knowledge of the sector and long-standing relations with Iranian companies. Simultaneously, the company can celebrate the signing…