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Air Products expands nitrogen production capacity in South Korea

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced that it will increase nitrogen production to serve the growing demand of its existing customer in Pyeongtaek City, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. It is Air Products’ second phase of capacity expansion to supply…

Ube and MHI complete merger of injection-molding businesses

Ube Machinery Corp., a group company of Ube Industries, Ltd. (Ube; Tokyo, Japan; www.ube-ind.co.jp) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Plastic Technology Co., a group company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi-global.com), completed a transfer of shares relating to their…

Linde to construct atmospheric-gases plant in Georgia

Linde LLC (Bridgewater, N.J.; www.lindeus.com) announced that it will soon break ground for its new large-scale air separation unit (ASU) in Adel, Georgia. The plant, representing an investment of $40 million, will produce liquid atmospheric gas products essential to hospitals,…

Air Liquide acquires Serdex division of Bayer

Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) announced that its subsidiary Seppic recently finalized the acquisition of the Serdex division of Bayer. This acquisition strengthens Seppic’s footprint in natural active ingredients for cosmetics. The global specialty active ingredients for cosmetics represent a market…

Toray forms JV with Mitsui Sugar to demonstrate new cellulosic-sugar manufacturing process

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 wins EPC contract for petroleum refinery in Chile

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 acquires BioControl Systems

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 awarded service contract for Socar petrochemicals and NGL facilities

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…

Linde starts up six ASUs at coal-to-liquids complex in China

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 acquires glycol distillation assets from Dow

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,…