Albemarle Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.; www.albemarle.com) announced that it has signed a Heads of Agreement in the field of heavy feedstock hydrocracking for the company's catalysts business unit. Sinopec Catalyst Co. (SCC), Sinopec Fushun Research Institute of Petroleum and Petrochemicals (FRIPP),…
A joint development project between Henkel (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.henkel.com), packaging manufacturer Mondi, plastics manufacturer Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) and the recycling technology company APK aims to significantly improve the sustainability of plastic multi-layer flexible packaging. “APK AG, based in…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with the Sweden-based mining company Boliden on the design and delivery of an absorption section to be built for the sulfuric acid plant at the Rönnskär smelter. The order has been booked in…
Archer Daniels Midland Company (Chicago, Ill.; www.adm.com) and DuPont Industrial Biosciences announced a collaboration to develop, produce and market cellulase enzymes for operators of grain-based ethanol plants. Cellulase enzymes assist in hydrolyzing the corn kernel fiber, which consists mostly of…
Axens (Rueill-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) announced that it has signed a contract with MOL Group (Budapest, Hungary; www.molgroup.info) for its Danube Refinery to develop a cloud-based real-time monitoring unit as part of Connect‘In, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), developed by Axens and supported…
ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.exxonmobil.com) has started production of hydrogenated hydrocarbon resin and halobutyl rubber at its integrated manufacturing complex in Singapore, the company’s largest integrated refining and petrochemical complex in the world. “These new plants enhance the competitiveness and…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) held a ribbon-cutting event at the Covestro LLC Baytown, Texas, industrial park, where Air Products has invested over $350 million to build, own and operate a world-scale steam-methane reformer (SMR). The SMR is producing…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) and Beijing Tiangang Auxiliary Co., Ltd. (Tiangang), conducted a groundbreaking ceremony in Cangzhou (China), just over 200 km south of Beijing. The ceremony marked the start of the construction of a world-class production facility for stabilizers…
John Crane (Chicago, Ill.; www.johncrane.com), a global provider of rotating equipment solutions, recently announced that as of June 13, the company finalized its purchase of Seebach GmbH, a German-based provider of highly engineered filtration solutions for use in polymer, oil…
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…