Cabot Corp. (Boston, Mass.; www.cabotcorp.com) has acquired NSCC Carbon (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. from Nippon Steel Carbon Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Nippon Steel Chemical & Material Co., Ltd. The carbon black manufacturing facility in Pizhou, Jiangsu Province, China, was originally…
INEOS (London; www.ineos.com) has selected McDermott’s Lummus CATOFIN Technology as the operating technology for its planned world-scale Propane Dehydrogenation (PDH) unit. A License Agreement has now been signed. In parallel, an agreement has been signed with Clariant for the long-term…
Royal DSM (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) announced the successful expansion of its production capacity of its sustainable liquid polyester technology and other specialty resins, through the operational launch of a new state-of-the-art polyester production facility in Meppen, Germany. DSM’s new…
SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) it has signed a project management contract (PMC) with Long Son Petrochemicals Company Limited (LSP), a subsidiary of the Siam Cement Public Company Limited (SCG) of Thailand. Under the agreement, SNC-Lavalin and LSP will form…
GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.gea.com) successfully concluded the sale of its GEA Westfalia Separator Production France SAS entity — its French standard separators production facility and the respective real estate in Château-Thierry (Hauts-de-France region) to the French industrial group…
INEOS Enterprises (London; www.ineos.com) has confirmed that it has entered into a binding agreement to acquire the chemical intermediates business of Flint Hills Resources. The deal is expected to complete before the end of 2018, subject to regulatory approval. The…
Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com) announced it has agreed to acquire Intelligent Platforms, a division of General Electric. Intelligent Platforms’ programmable logic controller (PLC) technologies will enable Emerson, a leader in automation for process and industrial applications, to provide its…
Momentive Performance Materials Inc. (Waterford, N.Y.; www.momentive.com) celebrated the official opening of its new NXT silane production facility in the Leverkusen Chempark in Germany. The city of Leverkusen and Chempark officials joined Momentive’s CEO and other leaders to officially cut…
GE Power (www.ge.com/power) announced that it has been selected to provide technology for NTPC and Tata Chemicals to upgrade two coal-fired boilers in India with GE’s low-NOx firing system. This is the first installation of this technology in India and…
Borealis Group AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) announced a new strategic alliance with Bockatech, a U.K. early-stage Greentech and provider of EcoCore technology for sustainable packaging. This new material and technology partnership will advance the circular economy by developing low-cost, high…