Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced it has completed the acquisition of General Electric Company's (GE) gasification business from GE Power. Financial terms of the transaction are not being disclosed. "The successful acquisition of the GE gasification technology further supports…
W. R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.; www.grace.com) has licensed its UNIPOL PP Process Technology to Datong Coal Mine Group Co., Ltd. The UNIPOL PP facility, located in Datong, China, will produce 430,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of polypropylene and…
Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan; www.sumitomo-chem.co.jp) has acquired Emas Plastik A.S. and its affiliated companies (the Emas Group), a major plastic compounder group in Turkey through Sumika Polymer Compounds Europe Ltd., a Sumitomo Chemicals subsidiary, to further advance the global…
Tosoh Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.tosoh.com) announced plans to increase production capacity for chloroprene rubber (CR), marketed under the product name Skyprene, which is part of the functional polymer product lineup of the Specialty business, at the Nanyo Complex in Shunan…
The Chemours Co. (Wilmington, Del.; www.chemours.com) announced the acquisition of Southern Ionics Minerals, LLC (SIM), a minerals exploration, mining, and manufacturing company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. SIM was a wholly owned subsidiary of Southern Ionics Incorporated (SII), a privately held…
Koch-Glitsch (Wichita, Kan.; www.koch-glitsch.com), a subsidiary of Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) and its parent company Koch Industries, announced the acquisition of Julius Montz GmbH from the Pfaudler Group. This acquisition will increase Koch-Glitsch's presence worldwide by strengthening its global footprint, broadening…
Linde (Guildford, U.K.; www.linde.com) announced that it has started up a new gas production facility supplying methane, hydrogen and carbon dioxide to Evonik Industries' second world-scale methionine complex on Jurong Island in Singapore. The new plant complements an existing facility…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded the front-end engineering and design (FEED) for INEOS’ new processing plant at the Saltend Chemicals Park in Hull, UK. The plant will produce vinyl acetate monomer, (VAM) a key component for laminated wind…
Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com) opened its newest cybersecurity lab to help manufacturers confidently adopt digital transformation strategies, while protecting the integrity of their plant operations, networks, systems and data. The facility, part of Emerson’s larger global cybersecurity network, reinforces…
Royal Vopak (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.vopak.com), Mitsubishi Corp., Covestro AG and AP Ventures have invested Euro 17 million into Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies GmbH and its Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier (LOHC) technology for hydrogen logistics. Storing hydrogen, using dibenzyltoluene as the Liquid Organic…