Honeywell (Morris Plains, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) and Flowserve Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.flowserve.com) announced they will collaborate to provide Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions to help industrial customers make their operations safer, more efficient and more reliable. The collaboration will be…
KBR Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced the successful completion of performance tests and official handover of the landmark Dyno Nobel ammonia plant in Waggaman, Louisiana. The project is the first to use an integrated KBR solution of KBR's Purifier ammonia technology…
Invista (Wichita, Kansas; www.invista.com) celebrated the grand opening of its nylon 6,6 facility, including a new 215,000-metric ton (m.t.) hexamethylene diamine (HMD) plant and a 150,000-m.t. polymer plant, at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP) in China. Officials from SCIP…
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan; www.shinetsu.co.jp) plans to proactively expand its silicones business, one of its main business segments, by establishing a new plant in Japan, and expanding its Technical Center in Japan that performs technical services for silicone rubber…
Schneider Electric SE (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.schneider-electric.com) has acquired Applied Instrument Technologies, Inc. (AIT), a leading provider of online process analyzers for the hydrocarbon, petrochemical, chemical, pharmaceutical and steel-making industries. The acquisition adds to Schneider Electric’s process automation portfolio that already…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) announces a 25% capacity increase for Kynar brand polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) at its Changshu platform near Shanghai. This project will help meet the strong demand, in particular in new energies and water-treatment applications. This investment will…
Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.; www.trinseo.com) announced that it will expand capacity for Solution-Styrene Butadiene Rubber (S-SBR). This increased investment is a direct response to rising customer demand for this critical technology, which is a key component in increasing energy efficiency, safety…
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo, Japan; www.sdk.co.jp) announced that Hideo Ichikawa will resign as president and CEO to become representative director and chairman of the board of the company, and that Kohei Morikawa, director, managing corporate officer and chief technology…
Ashland Inc. (Covington, Ky.; www.ashland.com) started up a new production line in Nanjing, China to manufacture polymer excipients for China’s pharmaceutical industry. Demand for polymer excipients, the substances formulated alongside the active ingredients of medications, is rising in China as…
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo, Japan; www.sdk.co.jp) agreed with SGL Carbon SE, a carbon and graphite product manufacturer headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, that SDK will acquire SGL GE Holding GmbH, which engages in the graphite electrode business, from SGL Carbon…