Tata Chemicals Ltd. (TCL; Mumbai, India; www.tatachemicals.com) completed the acquisition of the Silica business from Allied Silica. Earlier this year, the company had entered into a Business Transfer Agreement with Allied Silica Limited to acquire their business of precipitated silica…
Sandvik's business unit Sandvik Materials Technology (www.materials.sandvik) has signed an agreement to divest its stainless wire business to Zapp Group, a German family-owned leading supplier of advanced metal products. This completes the full scope of the divestment plan for the…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced that it has been working on the Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) to double the sulfur derivatives production capacities at Arkema's Beaumont,Texas site. KBR has been leading the FEED from its Houston Operations Center…
Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.covestro.com) is planning to build its own chlorine production plant in Tarragona (Spain) and will use a particularly sustainable process: oxygen-depolarized cathode (ODC) technology, that consumes around a quarter less energy than the conventional method. At…
Indorama Ventures Public Co. Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indoramaventures.com) announced that it has entered into a joint venture agreement with Dhunseri Petrochem Ltd. (Dhunseri) to acquire its Egyptian Indian Polyester Company S.A.E. (EIPET) Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) facility located in Ain…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com), through its local subsidiary in Saudi Arabia, Jacobs ZATE, has been awarded a three-year, general engineering services (GES) contract from Yanbu Aramco Sinopec Refining Company Ltd. (YASREF) to help optimize the production at…
AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has broken ground for a demonstration plant to showcase a revolutionary and more sustainable technology platform for producing ethylene amines and their derivatives from ethylene oxide. Located at its Stenungsund site in Sweden,…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is increasing its global production capacity for Neopor (expandable polystyrene containing graphite) by a total of 40,000 metric tons per year (m.t.yr). Adjustments in the plants at the two production sites in Ludwigshafen, Germany, and…
Wood has secured a new contract with SABIC UK Petrochemicals Limited (SABIC), to provide industrial services at the Olefins 6 plant in Wilton, Teesside, UK. The contract, effective immediately, is to provide rope access, scaffolding, insulation and coatings services to…
The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) announced a series of phased, incremental investments to expand its global glycol ethers capacity to meet increasing demand in key end-markets and applications. Once complete, the Company will have nearly doubled its current…