Bechtel (Reston, Va.; www.bechtel.com) has received approval from Teck to proceed with the expansion of the Quebrada Blanca copper mine in Chile, comprising a143,000 tons-per-day copper concentrator, a high-capacity desalination plant, and a 165-kilometer water supply pipeline. The Quebrada Blanca…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has acquired Structured Polymers Inc., a U.S.-based technology startup for 3-D printing materials headquartered in Austin, Texas. A corresponding agreement and plan of merger was executed and the transaction has been closed recently. The…
Ecolab Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.; www.ecolab.com) announced that it has closed on its previously announced acquisition of Bioquell PLC (www.bioquell.com), a leading provider of hydrogen peroxide vapor bio-decontamination systems and services for the life sciences and healthcare industries. Headquartered in…
BASF Corp. (Florham Park, N.J.; www.basf.com/us) is investing in its operations in Mauldin, South Carolina to enable production of pearlizers and opacifiers used in cosmetic products. Start-up of the new production line is planned for the end of 2019. The…
Marathon Petroleum Corp. (MPC; Findley, Ohio; www.marathonpetroleum.com) has contracted Axens (Rueill-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) to provide its Connect’In services for realtime process monitoring and optimization of multiple Continuous Catalytic Regenerative (CCR) Reformers and multiple Prime-G+ FCC gasoline post-treatment units across their…
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR; www.socar.az) has announced the start of production of its new carbamide plant. The plant has a production capacity of 650–660,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of carbamide products using 435 million cubic…
Attis Industries Inc. (Milton, Ga.; www.attisinnovations.com) announced that it will collaborate with Novozymes A/S (Copenhagen, Denmark; www.novozymes.com). Under this newly announced relationship, Novozymes has committed to supplying the enzymes required by Attis to convert its pulp into sugar at all of…
PMC Ouvrie SAS, France, a wholly owned subsidiary of PMC Group International Inc. (Mount Laurel, N.J.; www.pmc-group.com), which is an independent arm of PMC Group Inc., announced the acquisition of a hydrocolloid product line from Solvay, S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com).…
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (MCI; Tokyo; www.mitsuichem.com) announced that it intends to begin production for alpha-methylstyrene (α-methylstyrene) at Singaporean subsidiary Mitsui Phenols Singapore Pte. Ltd. (MPS). Located at Jurong Island, Singapore, MCI intends to produce 20,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr)…
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire a synthesis gas (syngas) production unit from Linde PLC (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com). The production unit, which has a production capacity of 365,000 metric tons per year…