Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) is acquiring the Porocel Group for $210 million to accelerate the growth of its catalysts business. Based in Houston, Texas (USA), Porocel offers a technology for highly efficient rejuvenation of desulfurization catalysts, which are in…
Haldor Topsoe (Lyngby, Denmark) announced that is has joined an ambitious sustainable fuels project in Denmark. The project aims to develop a ground-breaking hydrogen and sustainable fuel facility based on electrolysis in the Greater Copenhagen Area. The project is expected…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced that Duqm Refinery and Petrochemical Industries Company LLC (DRPIC) has selected LyondellBasell’s world-leading polypropylene (PP) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE) technologies for a new facility. The new plants will comprise of a polypropylene (PP) plant that…
BASF Corp. (Florheim Park, N.J.) announced the expansion of its Sparks, Georgia facility. The company invested approximately $70 million in capital improvements to produce seed treatment formulations that will also lead to 30 new full-time jobs at the site. The…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) has been awarded two contracts by Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group Co. Ltd (Baofeng Energy) for its 500,000 metric-tons-per-year (m.t./yr) coal-to-olefins project & 500,000-m.t./yr C2-C5 comprehensive utilization project to be built in Ningdong Town, Lingwu City, Ningxia, China.…
DuPont Clean Technologies (Wilmington, Del.) has been awarded the contract to supply Hengyi Industries SDN BHD (Hengyi) with licensing and engineering for a STRATCO alkylation unit at the Brunei refinery in Pulau Murara Besar, Brunei. The new refinery will not only…
Capstone Turbine Corporation (Van Nuys, Calif.) announced that through a collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, it has achieved significant progress in the development of a hydrogen-operable microturbine product. Development testing performed at Argonne demonstrates that…
Industrial software firms Aveva Group plc (Cambridge, U.K.) and OSIsoft (San Leandro, Calif.), have announced an agreement for Aveva to acquire OSIsoft for $5.0 billion. Aveva and OSIsoft will combine their complementary product offerings, bringing together industrial software and data…
Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) has agreed to acquire Swiss-German privately held drug delivery device developer and manufacturer Haselmeier for an enterprise value of EUR 100 million. Haselmeier is a leading, own-IP provider of drug delivery devices such as subcutaneous self-injection…
PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) and LG Chem recently inked an agreement to build a Nitrile Butadiene Latex (NBL) manufacturing plant at Pengerang Integrated Complex (PIC) in Johor to target the growing nitrile glove market, further strengthening…