Atlas Copco AB (Stockholm, Sweden; www.atlascopcogroup.com) has won several recent orders from Hindustan Zinc in India for equipment that will make the mining company’s operations take a leap forward in efficiency and become more digitalized. Hindustan Zinc, a longtime customer…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Essentium Materials LLC (College Station, Tex.; www.essentiummaterials.com) are teaming up to enable the creation of more robust parts for use in plastic 3D printing mass production leveraging fused filament fabrication (FFF) technology, one of…
Amyris, Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.; www.amyris.com) and Royal DSM (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) announced that they have agreed for DSM to make an initial equity investment in Amyris of $25 million, translating into a shareholding of ~12%. At the same time,…
Honeywell UOP announced that it has signed an agreement with the Jordan Petroleum Refinery Co. (JPRC) to facilitate a $1.6-billion expansion of its refinery in Zarqa, Jordan. This expansion will increase the capacity of the facility to 120,000 barrels per…
Solenis (Wilmington, Del.; www.solenis.com) announced the opening of its new technology center in Paulínia, São Paulo, Brazil. Housed in approximately 1,000 square meters, the new research and development facility, known as the Paulínia Technology Center (PTC), will manage the region’s customer…
Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) and Borouge (Abu Dhabi, UAE; wwwborouge.com) announced the launch of Quentys, the new umbrella brand created to empower and potentially revolutionise the solar energy industry by making applications more affordable, reliable, and durable. Borealis and…
Axalta Coating Systems (Philadelphia, Pa.; www.axaltacs.com)), a leading global supplier of liquid and powder coatings, opened its new headquarters office for India located in Gurugram within the National Capital Region (NCR) yesterday. The new location will also house an Axalta…
The Board of Directors of Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) has appointed Nico Delvaux President and CEO of Metso, effective at the beginning of November 2017 at the latest. Nico Delvaux is currently Senior Executive Vice President for Atlas Copco…
Koch Membrane Systems (KMS; Wilmington, Mass.; www.kochmembrane.com), a global leader in membrane filtration technologies, announced in conjunction with Archer Daniel Midlands Co. (ADM; Chicago, Ill.; www.adm.com) the planned upgrade of the water treatment plant for ADM’s Southern Cellulose facility in…
Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.huntsman.com) announced that it has completed the acquisition of IFS Chemicals Limited (IFS), one of the U.K.’s leading independent formulators of methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) based systems. The purchase price was not disclosed. Located in…