Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals) will start construction in May on a project to further increase capacity for chloromethanes at its site in Frankfurt, Germany, supporting growing global customer demand. The expansion is expected to be completed in 2020. The…
Borealis Group (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) and Borouge have announced that Borealis’ new compounding plant in Taylorsville, North Carolina, has come on stream as planned, with the inauguration of the facility scheduled for 16 May 2019. With dedicated production lines for…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced that it has been awarded a contract by Saudi Aramco for KBR's Supercritical Solvent Deasphalting (SDA) technology ROSE.Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide a 3-product ROSE technology license, basic engineering design, and proprietary…
DowDuPont Inc. announced that it has completed the separation of its Materials Science Division through the spin-off of Dow Inc. Dow begins “regular way” trading tomorrow on the NYSE under the symbol “DOW.” DowDuPont common stockholders received one share of…
AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) announced an investment in major site upgrades to strengthen position in US wood coatings. This milestone multi-million-dollar investment is set to transform AkzoNobel’s wood coatings facility in High Point, North Carolina. The transformation will involve…
Eastman Chemical Company (Kingsport, Tenn.; www.eastman.com) announced that is has acquired Sasol Ltd.’s (Johannesburg, South Africa; www.sasol.co.za) Marlotherm heat-transfer fluids manufacturing assets located in Germany and related formulations, intellectual property and customer contracts. This acquisition enables Eastman to expand its…
Exxon Mobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.exxonmobil.com) has made a final investment decision on a multi-billion dollar expansion of its integrated manufacturing complex in Singapore to convert fuel oil and other bottom-of-the-barrel crude products into higher-value lube base stocks and distillates.…
Sandvik Group (Stockholm, Sweden; www.home.sandvik.com) announced that IBM is collaborating with Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology to develop IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things), advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to realize safety, maintenance, productivity and operational efficiency in the mining industry.…
Irkutsk Polymer Plant, LLC has selected Univation Technologies’ (Houston; www.univation.com) UNIPOL PE Technology for a polyethylene (PE) plant to be located in Ust-Kut, Irkutsk region, in the Russian Federation. The new plant is slated to produce 650,000 metric tons per…
GE Healthcare (Chicago; www.gehealthcare.com) and Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee, Wis.; www.rockwellautomation.com) are combining their automation, IT and single-use solution expertise to create new digital bioprocessing operations capabilities. The two companies will help biopharmaceutical manufacturers create flexible and scalable facilities, focused on…