Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) has announced preliminary plans to expand its emulsion polymers derivatives business to extend the value of its global acetyl chain. These focused investments allow Celanese to implement integrated capital deployments to capture disproportionate growth in…
Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.nouryon.com) is continuing its growth acceleration plans with an agreement to acquire the carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) business of J.M. Huber Corp. (Edison, N.J.; www.huber.com). The transaction will significantly broaden Nouryon’s portfolio of products in CMC, a…
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) and Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.nouryon.com) announced that they have signed an agreement for Celanese to acquire Nouryon’s redispersible polymer powders business offered under the Elotex brand (Elotex business). As part of the acquisition, Celanese…
Oxea GmbH (Monheim am Rhein, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com), part of the Oman Oil Company & Orpic Group, joined eight other companies in a process to create a new, integrated energy company that will trade under the brand name OQ.OQ launched an…
Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany; www.messergroup.com)announced that it has entered into exclusive negotiations with Air Liquide regarding the purchase of Air Liquide’s entities in Czech Republic and Slovakia. This transaction is subject to the final and definitive agreement between…
VAKT Global Ltd. (London; www.vakt.com), a company focused on commodity post-trade processing underpinned by blockchain, has announced that Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures (SAEV) is its latest investor with a $5 million investment in new shares and Aramco Trading Company as…
ACTEGA do Brazil, a company of Altana AG (Wesel, Germany; www.altana.com), has inaugurated a new integrated site in the city of Araçariguama in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, in which around €2 million was invested. In a first step,…
HollyFrontier Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.hollyfrontier.com) has chosen Haldor Topsoe’s (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) HydroFlex sustainable renewable-fuel technology to produce renewable diesel from various feedstocks. The large renewable diesel unit will be located at HollyFrontier’s Artesia refinery in New Mexico. Under the…
After a successful pilot phase, Air Liquide (Paris; www.airliquide.com) has renewed its partnership with Solidia Technologies, a developer of solutions to reduce the environmental footprint of precast concrete manufacturing. During the pilot phase initiated in 2016, a joint team of…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced that it was awarded a project management consultancy services contract by Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) for its Polyols Petrochemicals Project at its existing integrated refinery and petrochemicals complex in Kochi, Kerala, India. Fluor’s…