During the celebration of the five-year anniversary of the Lewabrane membrane-elements plant operated by IAB Ionenaustauscher GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of specialty chemicals company Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com), LANXESS also announced plans to double production capacity in the…
Yara International ASA (Oslo, Norway; www.yara.com) has officially opened the world’s first modular ammonium nitrate plant. The plant’s location is remote, in the desert-like landscape of Western Australia, northeast of Perth. Ammonium nitrate is the main component of explosives used…
Meridian Energy Group (Belfield, N.D.; www.meridianenergygroupinc.com) announced that the company has finalized a license agreement with Axens North America, Inc., a subsidiary of Axens (Rueill-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net), to define the underlying proprietary process technology for several of the refinery process…
Solvay SA (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has inaugurated a new carbon-fiber production line at its Piedmont Facility in South Carolina, doubling production capacity of a key raw material to make carbon-fiber-reinforced composite materials and meeting increasing demand for lightweighting composite materials…
Royal DSM (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) and specialty chemicals producer Zhejiang NHU Special Materials Co. (NHU) have officially inaugurated their joint venture (JV) company for polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) compounds, DSM NHU Engineering Plastics (Zhejiang) Co Ltd. The JV, which was…
Albemarle Corp. (Baton Rouge, La.; www.albemarle.com) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate conversion assets and supporting business functions currently operated by Jiangxi Jiangli New Materials Science and Technology Co. Ltd. The transaction is…
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo, Japan; www.sdk.co.jp), JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp. (JX), and LyondellBasell Group (LYB; Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) have reached final agreement concerning the sale and purchase of LyondellBasell’s shares in SunAllomer Ltd. (SunAllomer), a joint…
Prayon Group’s (Engis, Belgium; www.prayon.com) Prayon Technologies division, which specializes in the licensing of phosphoric acid processes, will provide a license and technical guidance for two new phosphoric acid plants to be built in Egypt, as part of the NCIC…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has opened its first production plant in Sri Lanka, which will produce standard and custom-made performance-based construction chemicals under the Master Builders Solutions brand, including concrete admixtures product. The new plant will allow BASF to…
Teijin Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.teijin.com) announced that it has agreed to acquire the interests owned by E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont; Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) in the companies’ film-business joint ventures (JVs) in Japan and Indonesia. The…