BP plc (London; www.bp.com) has agreed to sell its petrochemical complex in Decatur, Ala., to Indorama Ventures Public Co., as part of a previously announced effort to refocus its global petrochemicals business for improved profitability and long-term growth. The divestment…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) will build and operate a new facility consisting of a carbon dioxide production unit and a cogeneration unit. This investment of around €40 million marks Air Liquide’s entry into the Colombian industrial gas market. The new facility…
Albemarle Corp. (Baton Rouge, La.; www.albemarle.com) announced the successful completion of the previously announced sale of its Tribotecc metal sulfides business to Treibacher Industrie AG. The transaction included sites in Vienna and Arnoldstein, Austria and Tribotecc's proprietary sulfide synthesis process.…
Praxair Distribution, Inc. (PDI), a subsidiary of Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com), announced its two joint venture (JV) companies operating in the southeastern U.S. have merged. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction involves merging Praxair Distribution…
Saint-Gobain (Courbevoie, France ; www.saint-gobain.com) has acquired Brazilian company SG Plasticos, a leading player in specialty extruded tubing in Brazil, based in the state of São Paulo. The company provides differentiated and customized solutions related to fluid transfers in demanding…
Dyadic International, Inc. (Jupiter, Fla.; www.dyadic.com) announced the closing of the previously announced sale of substantially all of the assets of its Industrial Technology business to DuPont’s Industrial Biosciences business for $75 million in cash. As previously announced, following the…
Evonik Industries (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is building a new production plant for specialty copolyesters at its Witten site in Germany. As binders for paints, specialty copolyesters are used in coil coatings and, increasingly, in food can coatings. The company is…
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo, Japan; www.sdk.co.jp) has expanded its capacity to supply high-purity ammonia, which is widely used in production processes for electronic materials, by stepping up the production capacity of a plant owned by its manufacturing subsidiary in…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced that it has been awarded a contract by Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery Co. The project scope includes the license and engineering design of a grassroots propane and butane dehydrogenation unit to be built in…
Celanese Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.celanese.com) announced that it has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Push Group Co., Ltd., with respect to the formation of a new joint venture (JV) focused on the production of cellulose acetate-based specialty…