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Honeywell moves global headquarters from New Jersey to North Carolina

Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) announced that it will relocate its global corporate headquarters to Charlotte, North Carolina, a city close to several of Honeywell's businesses in the Southeast United States. Honeywell also announced it will relocate the headquarters of its Safety and…

Kemira forms AKD wax joint venture in China

Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland; www.kemira.com) has formed a joint venture with a producer of alkyl ketene dimer (AKD) wax in China. With this agreement, Kemira forms a joint venture – Kemira TC Wanfeng Chemicals Yanzhou (NewCo)  – with Shandong Tiancheng…

DuPont Water Solutions opens new RO membrane manufacturing plant at Sadara facility

DuPont Water Solutions (www.dupont.com/water), a part of the DuPont Safety & Construction business, opened its new reverse osmosis (RO) production line in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Located in Jubail Industrial City II, the facility will manufacture membrane technology and…

ADNOC moving ahead with plans to expand its CO2 capture operations

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC; www.adnoc.ae) announced that it is moving ahead with plans to expand the capture, storage and utilization of carbon dioxide (CO2), produced from either the Habshan-Bab gas processing facilities or the Shah gas plant.…

Ametek completes acquisition of condition-monitoring specialist Spectro Scientific

AMETEK, Inc. (Berwyn, Pa.; www.ametek.com) announced that it has completed the acquisition of Spectro Scientific, a leading provider of machine condition monitoring solutions for critical assets in high-value industrial applications. Spectro provides both lab-based and onsite instrumentation, consumables and cloud-based…

KBR wins contract for ammonia plant revamp in Tamil Nadu

KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced that it has been awarded a contract to supply proprietary equipment to Southern Petrochemical Industries Corporation Ltd. India for its plant located in Thoothukudi in the State of Tamil Nadu. Under the contract, KBR will…

Linde to partner with Delaware City Refining Company to establish new hydrogen production facilities

The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.the-linde-group.com) and PBF Energy have jointly announcd that the companies broke ground yesterday for a new hydrogen plant that is being built in Delaware City, Del., in partnership with PBF subsidiary Delaware City Refining Company…

Aveva announces global digitalization partnership with KBR

AVEVA (Cambridge, U.K.; www.aveva.com) announced that KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) has signed a multi-phase agreement wherein AVEVA will contribute to KBR’s digital transformation, which will help to deliver significant cost savings and to provide service excellence to their clients. This agreement…

Perstorp has increased its global Di-Penta production capacity

Perstorp (Malmö, Sweden; www.perstorp.com) has increased production capacity of di-pentaerythritol (Di-Penta) by 40%. This is a result of improved efficiency and debottlenecking at all Di-Penta producing sites. Di-Penta is used in a vast number of applications such as UV cured…

Eastman completes construction of new isobutyric acid manufacturing facility

Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.; www.eastman.com) has completed a new isobutyric acid manufacturing facility at its Kingsport, Tennessee site, and expects production to begin within the next few weeks. The new facility, when added to the Longview, Texas site isobutyric…