Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) announced it has started up a hydrogen facility that will recover byproduct streams from The Dow Chemical Company’s (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) Freeport, Tex. operations. Under a longterm contract, Praxair is supplying high-purity hydrogen back to…
Celanese Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.celanese.com), and Nilit, a major independent producer of high-performance nylon polymers, fibers and compounds, announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for Celanese to acquire Nilit Plastics, the nylon compounding division of Nilit. Celanese will…
Honeywell (Morris Plains, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) announced that Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) selected Honeywell UOP’s process technology for a proposed plant in Kallo, Belgium, that converts propane into propylene (PP), a primary ingredient for making plastics. Borealis proposes to use…
PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk (CAP; Jakarta, Indonesia; www.chandra-asri.com), Indonesia’s largest petrochemical producer, has selected Univation Technologies’ Unipol PE Process for its new polyethylene plant that will be built in Cilegon, Indonesia, at CAP’s Naphtha Cracker Complex. The plant’s capacity…
Air Products (LeHigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) plans to install a new liquefier at its air separation plant located in Middletown, Ohio to increase liquid nitrogen (LIN) production to meet increasing customer product needs. The new liquefier is to be onstream…
As part of the company’s continued investment program, Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzer.com) is building a new, state-of-the-art pump services facility in Pasadena, Tex. to expand its increasing network in North America. Adjacent to the existing service center for electromechanical services,…
H.B. Fuller Co. (St. Paul, Minn.; www.hbfuller.com) has purchased the industrial adhesives business of Wisdom Worldwide Adhesives, a provider of adhesives for the packaging, paper converting and assembly markets. “We are pleased to welcome the employees and customers of this…
The Board of Directors of Braskem (São Paulo, Brazil; www.braskem.com.br) authorized the execution of an agreement with Odebrecht Utilities to acquire a controlling interest in Cetrel, the company responsible for treating and disposing of industrial wastewater and solid waste, environmental…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) has acquired Aquenta Consulting, a leading provider of integrated project services to public and private sector clients in Australia. Aquenta helps owners, operators and investors in infrastructure and property assets achieve their objectives…
City of Leverkusen and Chempark officials joined Momentive Performance Materials Inc. (Waterford, N.Y.; www.momentive.com) to officially break ground on a new manufacturing facility in Leverkusen, Germany. This new facility is a critical part of Momentive’s global initiative to expand production…