Messer Group (Bad Soden, Germany; www.messergroup.com) opened its biggest CO2 recovery plant on the globe in Nanjing, China. This plant makes Messer China’s largest CO2 provider, according to the company. The plant has a capacity of 150,000 metric tone per…
Royal DSM (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) and Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) announced their intention to establish a joint venture (JV) for omega-3 fatty acid products from natural marine algae for animal nutrition. This breakthrough innovation will, for the…
Amec Foster Wheeler (London, U.K.; www.amecfw.com) announced the award of a five-year global Enterprise Framework Agreement (EFA) with Shell Global Solutions International, B.V. to provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for its downstream projects worldwide. The award marks…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) and Forward Engineering have established the joint venture Vestaro GmbH. With this project, the two companies intend to drive forward the implementation of composite solutions for the industrial mass production of fiber-composite components for…
Royal Dutch Shell plc (The Hague, the Netherlands; www.shell.com) announced the signing of binding definitive agreements between SOPC Holdings East LLC (a U.S. downstream subsidiary of Shell) and Saudi Refining Inc. (SRI) (a wholly owned subsidiary of Saudi Arabian Oil…
Compañía Española de Petróleos S.A.U. (Cepsa; Madrid, Spain; www.cepsa.com) has formalized the purchase offer for Abengoa’s biofuels plant in San Roque (Cádiz). The process concluded with Abengoa’s acceptance of Cepsa’s 8-million euro binding offer for the total purchase of the…
Norsk Hydro ASA (Oslo, Norway; www.hydro.com) has entered into an agreement with Yara International ASA (Oslo, Norway; www.yara.com) regarding the sale of Herøya Nett AS and the quay facility at Herøya Industrial park. The transfer, including around 30 employees, will…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) and its customer Libbey Inc. have been awarded a 2.3 million euro LIFE grant (LIFE15 CCM/NL/000121 – LIFE OPTIMELT) from the European Commission. The LIFE program is the European Union’s financial instrument for supporting environmental,…
BASF SE’s (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) BASF Catalysts India Private Ltd. inaugurated its new mobile emissions catalysts manufacturing site. The site includes a new 47,000-square-meter production plant, which replaces an existing BASF plant in Chennai and is the culmination of a…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) announced that it has entered into exclusive negotiations with Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio; www.lincolnelectric.com), a world leader in design, development and manufacture of arc welding products, robotic arc welding systems, plasma and oxy-fuel cutting…