BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has signed an agreement to acquire ZedX, Inc. (Bellefonte, Pa.; www.zedxinc.com), a leader in the development of digital agricultural intelligence. The acquisition is expected to be completed within four weeks. ZedX’s expertise lies in the…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) announced plans to further strengthen its integrated production complex for polyamide and precursors for plastics in Antwerp. With an investment of roughly €25 million in 2017, the specialty chemicals company will primarily implement measures to…
Wacker Biosolutions, the life sciences and biotechnology division of the Wacker Group (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com), is strengthening its integrated ketene production at its Burghausen site in Germany. The company is building a further reactor for the manufacture of isopropenyl acetate…
On 17 April 2017, Messer (Bad Soden/Frankfurt, Germany; www.messergroup.com) and Hoa Phat Steel, the largest steel producer in Vietnam, signed a contract in Hanoi for the construction of two plants for the production of industrial gases. The contract is to…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) today announced that INOX Air Products Ltd. (Mumbai), its joint venture (JV) in India, will build six new air separation units (ASUs) which will serve the growing onsite and merchant liquid industrial gases market…
Keppel Infrastructure Holdings Pte Ltd. (Singapore; www.kepinfra.com) has signed an agreement with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) to develop, own and operate a state-of-the-art gasification facility on Jurong Island, Singapore. The agreement marks the culmination of a competitive selection…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) today announced the mechanical completion of a significant investment at its adsorbents production site in Nienburg, Germany. Two new state-of-the-art dryers at the site support BASF’s long-term commitment to its customers and underline BASF’s corporate…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract by Zhejiang Petroleum and Chemical Co. Ltd. (ZPC) for the license and engineering design of a single-train 220,000-ton/yr diphenyl carbonate (DPC) unit, based on Versalis technology, for a petroleum-refining and…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Codelco to provide engineering, procurement and field support services for the overhaul of acid plants at the Chuquicamata Mine in northern Chile. Chuquicamata, an open pit copper mine,…
ISE Group (Tokyo, Japan), Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) and SunPower Corp. (www.sunpower.com) have started up a 27-MW (peak) photovoltaic power plant in Nanao on Japan’s Honshu Island. Completed one year after the beginning of construction, the plant will generate…