Aker Solutions ASA (Lysaker, Norway; www.akersolutions.com) won strategically important contracts for concept studies for carbon capture at Yara's ammonia plant on Herøya and Norcem's cement production facility in Brevik, Norway. Norcem and Yara are among three companies in the running…
Thierry Le Hénaff, chairman and chief executive officer of Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com), inaugurated the company’s new specialty molecular sieve capacity at the Honfleur plant. This new plant will enable the group to support its customers’ growth in the refining…
Aspen Technology, Inc. (Bedford, Mass.; www.aspentech.com) announced that it has acquired rights to Operator Training Simulator (OTS) framework software from Inprocess Technology and Consulting Group of Barcelona, Spain. Inprocess, developer of the OTS software, is a consulting service company supplying technological services to owner-operators…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has signed an agreement to acquire Grupo Thermotek, a leading waterproofing systems supplier based in Monterrey, NL, Mexico. The transaction is subject to approval by relevant authorities and is expected to close by mid-2017. Both…
GE Additive (www.geadditive.com) is establishing a “Customer Experience Center” in Munich, Germany – the first of several GE Additive centers planned worldwide to accelerate the use of additive manufacturing. The Munich center will allow current and potential customers to experience…
Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wis.; www.virent.com) announced the appointment of Stacey Orlandi as the company’s chief executive officer. Orlandi will lead efforts to commercialize Virent’s technology for the large scale production of renewable fuels and chemicals and replace Lee Edwards, who…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) has just successfully brought onstream new Kynar polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) capacities on its Changshu platform near Shanghai. With this 25% increase in its production capacities in China, Arkema, which runs PVDF production plants on 3 continents…
WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) has been awarded a contract by Biosynthetic Technologies (BT; Irvine, Calif.) to perform FEED design and engineering services for a new synthetic base-oil facility that will commercialize BT’s unique technology converting natural oils into…
AkzoNobel N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) outlined a new strategy to accelerate growth and value creation with two focused, high-performing businesses – Paints and Coatings and Specialty Chemicals – which will lead to a step change in value creation for…
Parkland Fuel Corp. (Calgary, Alb., Canada; www.parkland.ca) announced that it has entered into an agreement with Chevron Canada Limited (CCL) to acquire all of the shares of Chevron Canada R&M ULC, which operates its Canadian integrated downstream fuel business. The…