AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has completed the €2.6 million ($3.5 million) expansion of its U.S. research and development (R&D) facilities in Houston, Texas. Carried out in phases over a period of three years, the investment in the site -…
The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) announced the completion of the construction phase of its new Elite enhanced polyethylene production facility in Freeport, Texas. Completed on time, the 400,000 metric ton (m.t.) polyethylene unit is the first of four…
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cpchem.com) announced that it has successfully completed a low-viscosity polyalphaolefins (PAO) capacity expansion at its Cedar Bayou plant in Baytown, Texas. The 20% capacity expansion enables the company to meet the increasing…
AkzoNobel N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) is to invest more than €10 million in Sweden to expand capacity for its chelated micronutrients, which are used as essential ingredients in the agricultural market. The project, at Kvarntorp, will help meet growing…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has signed an agreement to sell its electrolytes manufacturing site in Suzhou, China, to Shenzhen Capchem Technology Co. one of the leading suppliers in the global electronic-chemicals and functional materials industry. The transaction is expected…
Shell Chemical LP (Shell; www.shell.com/chemicals) provided an update on the progress of the main construction of its fourth linear alpha olefins (AO) unit at its chemicals manufacturing site in Geismar, Louisiana, USA. The 425,000-metric-tons-per-year (m.t./yr) capacity increase will make Shell’s…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has completed the installation and startup of new high-performance equipment at its Seneca, South Carolina operation, which will more than double the precious metals milling and sampling production capacity there. The Seneca site serves as…
Hexcel Corp. (Stamford, Conn.; www.hexcel.com) announced that it has entered into exclusive negotiations to acquire all of the shares of Structil SA, a French producer and supplier of high-performance composites to the aerospace, defense and industrial markets. The proposed transaction…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) announced that Susan Ellerbusch has been appointed chief executive officer of Air Liquide USA LLC, a U.S. subsidiary of Air Liquide, the global leader in gases, technologies and services for industry and health. Ellerbusch will…
Endress+Hauser (Reinach, Switzerland; www.endress.com) has expanded its production facilities in the United States. The Raman analyzer manufacturing plant in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was extended at a cost of $9 million. In Greenwood, Indiana, the company has built a new $8-million…