Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo; www.toray.com) will establish a joint venture (JV) company with Mitsui Sugar Co. for manufacturing cellulosic sugar, a raw material used for producing various biochemical products, from the surplus bagasse generated at sugar mills. The technological demonstration…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced that it was awarded a contract by Empresa Nacional del Petróleo (ENAP) for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of a new process unit at its Biobío refinery in Chile. Fluor booked the undisclosed…
MilliporeSigma (Billerica, Mass.; www.emdgroup.com) announced it has acquired BioControl Systems Inc., a global leader in food safety testing. The acquisition opens growth opportunities for MilliporeSigma in the food and beverage space, particularly in the U.S. Confidentiality has been agreed on…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) has been awarded by SOCAR GPC a service contract for the ethylene and cryomax technology licenses respectively for a petrochemical complex and for the NGL recovery section of a gas processing plant, which is part of…
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.the-linde-group.com) has brought six major air-separation units (ASU) onstream for its customer Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group Co. in Lingwu near Yinchuan in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of Northwest China. Shenhua Ningxia is a…
GlyEco, Inc. (Phoenix, Ariz.; www.glyeco.com) announced the completion of its previously announced acquisition by its subsidiary Recovery Solutions & Technologies Inc. (RS&T) of certain glycol distillation assets from Union Carbide Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company (Midland,…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has completed the activities to acquire the specialty additives business (Performance Materials Division) of the Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) for $3.8 billion (approx. €3.5 billion) by the end of the year as…
Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.huntsman.com) has completed the sale of its European surfactants business to Innospec Inc. (Littleton, Colo.; www.innospecinc.com) for an enterprise value of $225 million. This business represented approximately $24 million of EBITDA in 2015. Huntsman intends…
LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.; www.lanzatech.com) has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) to receive a $4-million award to design and plan a demonstration-scale facility using industrial off-gases to produce 3 million gal/yr of low-carbon…
Alpek S.A.B. de C.V. (San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico; www.alpek.com) has signed a share purchase agreement with Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) for the acquisition of its 100% stake in Companhia Petroquimica de Pernambuco (Petroquímica Suape) and Companhia Integrada Têxtil de…