DowDuPont (www.dow-dupont.com) announced the senior leaders of the independent companies that will be created following the separation of its Agriculture (Corteva Agriscience) and Specialty Products (DuPont) Divisions, which is expected to occur by June 1, 2019. In addition, the company…
Wison Engineering Services Co. Ltd. (Shanghai, China; www.wison.com) recently announced that its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary Wison Engineering Ltd. entered into a memorandum with Gazprom neftekhim Salavat for cooperation on a natural gas-to-polyolefin (ethylene and propene) project at an oil-and-gas base…
Evonik Industries (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is expanding its capacities for refinement fumed silica in Rheinfelden, Germany. The group will invest an amount in the low double-digit million euro range to expand its Rheinfelden facility, which further processes hydrophilic silica to…
Honeywell (Morris Plains, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) announced that its UOP Russell business has introduced a new high-recovery cryogenic gas processing plant that is 50% larger than other pre-engineered plants currently available. With a capacity of 300 million standard cubic feet per…
Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) has signed a shareholder agreement for a 11.7% stake in the Ramagundam fertilizer plant in Telangana, India, together with the Danish government-owned fund IFU and The Danish Agribusiness Fund (DAF). The Ramagundam project comprises…
Momentive Performance Materials Inc. (Waterford, N.Y.; www.momentive.com) and SJL Partners LLC, KCC Corp. and Wonik QnC Corp. (collectively, the “Investor Group”) announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement whereby the Investor Group will acquire Momentive in a transaction…
Metso Corp.’s (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) valves business has joined forces with Hexagon PPM (Huntsville, Ala.; www.hexagonppm.com) to ramp up its valve quotation efficiency. The agreement complements Metso's digital quotation tools, and it will enhance the efficient exchange of inquiry, quotation…
Wacker Biosolutions, the life sciences division of the Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com), has begun producing fermentation-generated cystine at its new site in León, Spain. Over the past eighteen months, the division has extensively modernized part of the 800-m³…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) officially started construction of the first large-scale commercial sunliquid plant for the production of cellulosic ethanol made from agricultural residues. At the flagship facility, the sunliquid technology developed by the company is being used on an…
INEOS (London, U.K.; www.ineos.com) has announced plans to invest £60 million to expand its Grangemouth site. It has awarded a contract to build an additional furnace on its KG ethylene plant to Selas-Linde GmbH, Germany. The addition of a tenth…