Pump and valve manufacturer KSB Group (Frankenthal, Germany; www.ksb.com) is investing about $75 million in its U.S. site in Grovetown, Ga., of which $40 million are going to the new foundry. Investments in the KSB subsidiary GIW Industries are to…
DRT (Dax, France; www.drt.fr) a specialist in processing rosin and turpentine oil distilled from pine resin, has purchased land in Georgia, which marks the first step of its move across the Atlantic. To meet growing demand from international markets, and…
Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com) has acquired IntelliSAW Inc., a leading provider of systems that protect electric-power transmission and distribution equipment by measuring and monitoring temperature, humidity and partial discharge using advanced sensor and analytic technologies. The IntelliSAW suite of…
Honeywell (Morristown, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Seelze, Germany-based laboratory research chemicals business from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, Mo.; www.sigma-aldrich.com) for approximately €105 million. The acquired Sigma-Aldrich business develops and manufactures high-purity research chemicals and other materials…
Total S.A. (Paris; www.total.com) has selected Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) process technology, Vegan, for its first biorefinery, to be located at La Mède (France). The plant will produce 500,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of high-quality paraffinic biodiesel, treating primarily…
Compass Minerals (Overland Park, Kan.; www.compassminerals.com) has selected Veolia Water Technologies (Moon Township, Pa.; www.veoliawaterstna.com) to provide the HPD Crystallization equipment necessary to expand production of its potassium sulfate product at its facility near Ogden, Utah, in the U.S. The…
Air Liquide’s (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed a new contract with ITER-India for the design and manufacturing of 19 cryogenic lines for the ITER project. This latest contract comes after two earlier ones, signed in 2012 and in 2013, bringing the…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Te.; www.fluor.com) announced that Fluor Ltd., its U.K. operation, was selected by Cytec Industries Inc. for the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) of the expansion of its high-performance adhesives manufacturing facility in Wrexham, North Wales. Fluor…
Badlands NGLs, LLC (Denver, Colo.; www.badlandsngls.com) and Univation Technologies, LLC (Houston; www.univation.com), a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) announced that Badlands has licensed Univation Technologies’ Unipol PE Process for four polyethylene (PE) reactor lines, representing…
Air Liquide’s (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) Advanced Technologies U.S. LLC business has recently acquired PoroGen Corp., a leading manufacturer of porous polymeric membranes for use in many industries, including oil and gas, refining and petrochemicals, energy, power generation and aerospace. PoroGen…