BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is increasing production capacity for Tinopal CBS optical brighteners at the company's Monthey site in Switzerland. A double-digit million euro investment in existing plants will be used to increase capacity stepwise until 2022. The first…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) has signed an agreement with respect to the sale of its Healthcare Packaging business to a newly-formed affiliate of Arsenal Capital Partners. The total consideration of the sale amounts to approximately CHF 308 million payable at…
PetroLogistics ll LLC (Houston; www.petrologistics.com), a portfolio company of Quantum Energy Partners, announced that it has licensed Dow’s proprietary fluidized catalytic dehydrogenation (FCDh) technology and plans to construct a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) facility on the U.S. Gulf Coast that will…
Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.nouryon.com) has doubled production capacity for dicumyl peroxide (DCP) at its site in Ningbo, China after completing a major expansion project. The plant is the largest of its kind in the world and can now produce…
W.R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.; www.grace.com) has licensed its UNIPOL Polypropylene (PP) Process Technology to Nayara Energy. Located at the Vadinar Refinery in Gujarat, India, the new, world-scale capacity UNIPOL PP facility will utilize 450,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr)…
Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) will build a 10-kg/h methanol plant to demonstrate the company’s electrified and extremely compact eSMR Methanol technology for cost-competitive production of sustainable methanol from biogas. The eSMR Methanol technology exploits the full carbon potential…
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) announced the opening of a new state-of-the-art probiotics fermentation unit at its Rochester, New York, facility. Construction of the unit was completed in March as part of an overall $100 million investment to expand probiotics capacity.…
The International Society of Automation (ISA; Research Triangle Park, N.C.; www.isa.org), developer of ANSI/ISA 62443 series of automation and control systems cybersecurity standards (adopted by the International Electrotechnical Commission and endorsed by the United Nations), has created an open, collaborative…
OMV AG (Vienna, Austria; www.omv.com) has made the decision to invest €64 million in the construction of an isobutene (ISO C4) plant – the building phase is now imminent: construction of the new plant will begin in summer 2019 at…
Aspen Technology, Inc. (www.aspentech.com) has signed an agreement to acquire Mnubo Inc., a Montreal-based provider of purpose-built artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics infrastructure for the Internet of Things (IoT). Mnubo enables industrial companies to assemble and deploy AI-driven IoT applications…