Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland; www.kemira.com) will initiate an approximately €30 million capital expenditure phase in expanding the manufacturing capacity of polymers for Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (CEOR). "Kemira can help customers improve their longterm profitability and resource efficiency with fully…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is expanding the service portfolio of its technical center in Adrian, Michigan. For the first time, Wacker is establishing a global laboratory dedicated to developing and commercializing new industrial applications for its cyclodextrin products.…
Novasep (Lyon, France; www.novasep.com), a leading supplier of services and technologies for the life sciences industry, announced a €4-million investment to expand cGMP capacity for clinical and commercial supply of APIs at its Chasse-sur-Rhône (FR) facility. The investment includes the…
Solvay’s (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) Performance Polyamides business announced the start of production of engineering plastics in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. This new facility is dedicated to the production of the Technyl range and was built within a few months…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) celebrated the opening of a new production plant for biocatalyzed acrylamide (BioACM) at its site in Nanjing Chemical Industrial Park, Nanjing, China. With this investment in its wholly owned BioACM plant in Nanjing, BASF is…
Velocys Inc. (Plain City, Ohio; www.velocys.com) has announced that it has signed a site option agreement with Adams County in the State of Mississippi for its first U.S. biorefinery to be located in Natchez, Mississippi. Velocys has been offered economic…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) recently entered into a new joint venture with Sinopec (China Petroleum & Chemical Corp.) in Beijing, for the takeover and optimization of three existing ASUs (Air Separation Units) and the building of a new nitrogen production unit,…
AkzoNobel’s (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) Specialty Chemicals business has completed the expansion of a Chemical Island in Brazil to support a major project for Brazilian forestry company Fibria. The world’s leading producer of eucalyptus pulp from planted forests, Fibria has…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been awarded an order for the delivery of minerals processing technology packages by Lundin Gold for their greenfield project Fruta Del Norte in Ecuador. The contract value booked in Outotec's 2017 third quarter order…
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (Tokyo; www. shinetsu.co.jp) will carry out ¥20 billion in facility investments in order to further strengthen its cellulose derivatives business. Cellulose derivatives are water-soluble polymers whose principle raw material is cellulose pulp. Their main applications are…