Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.; www.trinseo.com) marked the opening of its new pilot plant and Solution-Styrene Butadiene Rubber (S-SBR) capacity expansion at Schkopau, Germany. Business leaders and dignitaries, among them Dr. Reiner Haseloff, Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt, celebrated the opening, marking an important…
BP plc (London; www.bp.com) and SOCAR Turkey Enerji A.Ş have entered into a licensing agreement for BP’s latest generation purified terephthalic acid (PTA) technology. SOCAR Turkey intends to deploy the technology in its new unit, which will have capacity to…
Veolia North America, Inc.’s (Boston, Mass.; www.veolianorthamerica.com) subsidiary Veolia Environmental Services North America, LLC was sold to Clean Harbors, Inc. (Norwell, Mass.; www.cleanharbors.com). Brown Gibbons Lang & Co.’s (BGL) Environmental & Industrial Services team served as the exclusive financial advisor…
Honeywell (Morris Plains, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) and EQUATE Petrochemical Co. K.S.C.C. (Ahmadi, Kuwait; www.equate.com) announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to further the development of innovative technologies to support operations at EQUATE's industrial complexes. EQUATE is currently the…
DowDuPont (www.dow-dupont.com) announced the corporate brand names that each of its divisions plans to assume once they are separated as independent companies as intended. While certain product names will change at separation, many products within each intended company will continue…
Norsk Hydro ASA (Oslo, Norway; www.hydro.com) has made a binding offer to acquire Rio Tinto’s 100% share in Icelandic aluminum plant ISAL. The offer also includes the Dutch anode facility Aluchemie and Swedish aluminum fluoride plant Alufluor. The transaction includes…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that Dongming Hengchang Petrochemical Co. has selected LyondellBasell Spheripol polypropylene technology for a plant in Heze City, Shandong Province, China with a capacity of 200,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr). Polypropylene grades produced with the Spheripol process are…
The Lubrizol Corp. (Wickliffe, Ohio; www.lubrizol.com) announces updates to its global expansion program supporting the company's Engineered Polymers thermoplastics polyurethane (TPU) business and growing global demand for its Estane TPU, Pearlthane TPU, Pearlbond TPU and other product lines. "Ongoing investments…
Westlake Chemical Corp. (Houston; www.westlake.com) announced that it will expand capacities for the production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) at three of its chemical facilities. Two of the plants are located in Germany (Burghausen, Gendorf) and…
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) announced that chief financial officer, Chris Jensen, has tendered his resignation after a successful 12 years with the vcompany to spend time with his family and commence the next chapter of his career. He will…