Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee, Wis.; www.rockwellautomation.com) has acquired leading systems integrator Maverick Technologies to expand domain knowledge and help deliver innovative control and information solutions to customers in industries such as chemical, food and beverage, and oil and gas. The acquisition…
Cambrex Corp. (East Rutherford, N.J.; www.cambrex.com) the leading manufacturer of small molecule innovator and generic Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), announced the validation and ISO certification of a new pilot plant at its manufacturing and R&D site in Paullo (Milan), Italy.…
The former Electronic Materials business of Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) is now a separate and independent public company: Versum Materials, Inc. Versum Materials officially spun off from Air Products on October 1, 2016, and has begun operations as…
Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com) announced it has agreed to acquire U.K.-based Permasense Ltd., a leading provider of non-intrusive corrosion monitoring technologies for the offshore and onshore oil production, refining, chemical, power, pipelines, metals and mining and other industries. Permasense…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) held a groundbreaking ceremony today for the expansion of its Austrian site in Schörfling, where the group will build another operations complex for producing gas separation membrane modules of its Sepuran brand. In addition…
Ube Industries, Ltd. (Ube; Tokyo, Japan; www.ube-ind.co.jp) has decided to expand its production capacity for lithium-ion battery separators at the Sakai Factory in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, in order to meet growing demand for lithium-ion batteries used in automobiles. The…
Global Bioenergies and Clariant are proud to announce the first isobutene production from a wheat straw hydrolysate, in the industrial pilot of Pomacle Bazancourt. This success is the result of a collaboration initiated more than 18 months ago, and has…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) celebrated the opening of a new complex for the manufacturing of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) located at the BASF site in Shanghai, China. The new plant will produce PVP K30 powder, a polymer used as a base for…
Specialty chemicals company Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) announced plans to acquire Chemtura Corp. (Philadelphia, Pa., www.chemtura.com), one of the major global providers of flame-retardant and lubricant additives. With the largest acquisition in its history, Lanxess is building on its…
The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE; Rugby, U.K.; www.icheme.org) has confirmed the appointment of Jon Prichard as its new Chief Executive Officer. Jon succeeds David Brown, who stepped down in July. Jon currently leads the regulatory body for the engineering…