3M (St. Paul, Minn.; www.3m.com) has entered into an agreement to sell the assets of its temporary protective films business to Pregis LLC. 3M’s temporary protective films business is a provider of adhesive-backed temporary protective films used in a broad…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has completed the divestiture of certain U.S. assets to Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc. (www.mathesongas.com) first announced on June 24, 2016, and cleared by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a decision published on September 1, 2016. This…
SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) has entered into a share purchase agreement to divest its Polymershapes distribution business to Blackfriars Corp., a privately-held investment company. The transaction remains subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to be completed during…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has achieved mechanical completion on a citral facility and associated infrastructure for BASF Petronas Chemicals in Kuantan, Malaysia. As part of the Integrated Aroma Ingredients Complex, Fluor performed front-end engineering and design, engineering, procurement and…
Solvay SA (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has started hydrogen peroxide production at its new plant in Zhenjiang, China. This plant has a capacity of 60,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) and will meet the growing local customer demand for high quality…
Zachry Group (San Antonio, Tex.; www.zachrygroup.com) has acquired Catalyst Services from Clean Harbors, the leading provider of environmental, energy and industrial services throughout North America. Catalyst Services is an international industry leader in catalyst change-out services, with a particular expertise…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) has revealed plans to expand its specialty polyamides production capacities in China and the U.S. In China, at its Zhangjiagang site (Jiangsu Province) specialized in biosourced specialty polyamides, Arkema is increasing its compounding capacities, and in…
Effective September 5, 2016, Solenis (Wilmington, Del.; www.solenis.com) signed an agreement to acquire the shares in Nopco Holding AS and related subsidiaries, a producer and supplier of advanced chemical solutions for the pulp and paper industry. The transaction is expected…
Asahi Glass (AGC; Tokyo; www.agc.com) announces that it has acquired all of the shares of Biomeva GmbH (Biomeva) from Biomeva Holding GmbH. Biomeva is one of the leading biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing organizations (CMO) in Europe. With Biomeva now a part…
The Chemours Co. (Wilmington, Del.; www.chemours.com) has completed the sale of its Clean and Disinfect business—part of its Chemical Solutions segment—to Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) for approximately $230 million in cash on August 31, 2016. "This announcement is another…