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Clean Harbors buys Veolia Environmental Services North America

Veolia North America, Inc.’s (Boston, Mass.; www.veolianorthamerica.com) subsidiary Veolia Environmental Services North America, LLC was sold to Clean Harbors, Inc. (Norwell, Mass.; www.cleanharbors.com). Brown Gibbons Lang & Co.’s (BGL) Environmental & Industrial Services team served as the exclusive financial advisor…

Honeywell and Equate to collaborate in support of new petrochemical technologies

Honeywell (Morris Plains, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) and EQUATE Petrochemical Co. K.S.C.C. (Ahmadi, Kuwait; www.equate.com) announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to further the development of innovative technologies to support operations at EQUATE's industrial complexes.  EQUATE is currently the…

DowDuPont details plans to separate its three corporate divisions

DowDuPont (www.dow-dupont.com) announced the corporate brand names that each of its divisions plans to assume once they are separated as independent companies as intended. While certain product names will change at separation, many products within each intended company will continue…

Norsk Hydro acquires aluminum assets in Iceland, Sweden and the Netherlands

Norsk Hydro ASA (Oslo, Norway; www.hydro.com) has made a binding offer to acquire Rio Tinto’s 100% share in Icelandic aluminum plant ISAL. The offer also includes the Dutch anode facility Aluchemie and Swedish aluminum fluoride plant Alufluor. The transaction includes…

Dongming Hengchang Petrochemical to license LyondellBasell polypropylene technology

LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that Dongming Hengchang Petrochemical Co. has selected LyondellBasell Spheripol polypropylene technology for a plant in Heze City, Shandong Province, China with a capacity of 200,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr). Polypropylene grades produced with the Spheripol process are…

Lubrizol announces Engineered Polymers capacity expansions in North America, China and Europe

The Lubrizol Corp. (Wickliffe, Ohio; www.lubrizol.com) announces updates to its global expansion program supporting the company's Engineered Polymers thermoplastics polyurethane (TPU) business and growing global demand for its Estane TPU, Pearlthane TPU, Pearlbond TPU and other product lines.   "Ongoing investments…

Westlake to expand PVC and VCM production in Germany and the U.S.

Westlake Chemical Corp. (Houston; www.westlake.com) announced that it will expand capacities for the production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) at three of its chemical facilities. Two of the plants are located in Germany (Burghausen, Gendorf) and…

Celanese names new CFO

Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) announced that chief financial officer, Chris Jensen, has tendered his resignation after a successful 12 years with the vcompany to spend time with his family and commence the next chapter of his career. He will…

LyondellBasell to acquire A. Schulman for $2.25 billion

LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) and A. Schulman, Inc. (Akron, Ohio; www.aschulman.com), a leading global supplier of high-performance plastic compounds, composites and powders, announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which LyondellBasell will acquire A. Schulman for…

CB&I wins contract from Samsung for PTTGC ethylene plant

CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced that it has been awarded a contract valued in excess of $95 million by Samsung Engineering (Thailand) Co. for a brownfield ethylene plant at PTT Global Chemical's (PTTGC) petrochemicals complex in Map Ta Phut,…