Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.energies.airliquide.com) and Puregas Solutions (www.puregas-solutions.com) have signed an agreement to access their respective biogas upgrading technologies. This collaboration allows the two experts to provide biogas upgrading solutions that meet customers’ needs and specific projects’ characteristics. The…
Saint-Gobain (Courbevoie, France ; www.saint-gobain.com) has decided to build its second plasterboard plant in Vietnam. The Haiphong plant will come in addition to existing capacity in Ho Chi Minh in Southern Vietnam. This will ensure better commercial presence and better…
Momentive Performance Materials Inc. (Waterford, N.Y.; www.momentive.com) has acquired the operating assets of Sea Lion Technology, Inc., located in Texas City, Texas. Sea Lion is a contract chemical manufacturer that has worked with Momentive to produce silane products, including NXT…
Effective Jan. 1, 2017, B&P Process Equipment and Systems LLC and B&P Littleford Day LLC, both producers of industrial-grade equipment for mixing and separation, merged to form B&P Littleford LLC (Saginaw, Mich.; www.bplittleford.com). The new company offers a wide range…
PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk (CAP; Jakarta, Indonesia; www.chandra-asri.com) through its subsidiary, PT Petrokimia Butadiene Indonesia (PBI), has awarded a engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services contract to Toyo Engineering Korea Limited (Toyo-Korea) and PT Inti Karya Persada Tehnik (IKPT)…
Praxair Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has signed a longterm contract to supply hydrogen to Marathon Petroleum Corp.’s refinery in Garyville, Louisiana. The company will use the hydrogen to support an ultra-low-sulfur diesel project planned for 2018. Marathon Petroleum is the…
Solvay SA (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announced the creation of a joint venture (JV) with Marubeni Europe plc, a division of Japan-based Marubeni Corp., and turbine supplier Ansaldo Energia to invest in an energy-efficiency project at Solvay’s facility in Rosignano, Italy.…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has completed a capacity increase of its methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) production facilities at the company´s Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium. The capacity increase brings the annual production of MDI in Antwerp from 560,000 to…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced completion of the 800 million pounds-per-year ethylene expansion project at the company's Corpus Christi, Texas, site. The project increases ethylene capacity at the facility by 50%, from 1.7 billion pounds-per-year to 2.5 billion pounds-per-year,…
PPG Industries, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.ppg.com) announced that its board of directors has elected Vincent J. Morales to serve as senior vice president and chief financial officer (CFO), effective March 1. Morales is replacing Frank S. Sklarsky as CFO, who…