It was announced jointly that DuPont Industrial Biosciences (www.biosciences.dupont.com) and VERBIO North America Corporation (VNA), the U.S. subsidiary of leading German bioenergy producer VERBIO Vereinigte BioEnergie AG, have reached terms for VNA to acquire DuPont’s Nevada, Iowa-based cellulosic ethanol plant…
Versalis (San Donato Milanese, Italy; www.versalis.eni.com), RadiciGroup and Safitex have joined forces to make synthetic grass for sports fields recyclable in line with the principles of the circular economy. The project was presented today at Ecomondo and is the result…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract for the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) of a new copper smelter to be located at Benete Bay in Sumbawa, Indonesia. The contract partner is PT Amman Mineral Industri, a subsidiary of…
LyondellBasell (Rottedam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that China Petrochemical International Co., Ltd (Sinopec International) and Sinopec-SK(Wuhan) Petrochemical Company Ltd., (Wuhan) have selected the LyondellBasell Hostalen “Advanced Cascade Process” (Hostalen ACP) technology. The low-pressure slurry process technology will be used for…
LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea; www.lgchem.com) announced that it will appoint H.C. (Hak Cheol) Shin, a 61-year-old Vice Chair and Executive Vice President of 3M, as the new Vice Chairman & CEO of LG Chem. It is the first…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Linde plc, has reached an agreement with Phillips 66 to supply high-purity hydrogen to the company’s Sweeny Refinery located in Old Ocean, Texas, starting in early 2021. Praxair will extend its…
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) announced that it is investing more than $80 million to build a new manufacturing facility in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province in East China. The new facility will produce compounded high-end engineering plastics and adhesives to serve customers…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Linde plc, announced it has signed a longterm agreement to supply ultra-high purity nitrogen to Samsung’s world-class semiconductor facility in Hwaseong, South Korea. This is the fifth plant Praxair will build…
WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) has been awarded a five-year framework agreement by Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC), for the provision of engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services. Under the agreement, WorleyParsons will work with SABIC to optimize…
Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) has signed an agreement to divest its grinding media business to Moly-Cop, a portfolio company of American Industrial Partners. The transaction comprises the sale of Metso Spain Holding, S.L.U, including operations in two locations with…