Albemarle Corp. (Baton Rouge, La.; www.albemarle.com) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate conversion assets and supporting business functions currently operated by Jiangxi Jiangli New Materials Science and Technology Co. Ltd. The transaction is…
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo, Japan; www.sdk.co.jp), JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp. (JX), and LyondellBasell Group (LYB; Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) have reached final agreement concerning the sale and purchase of LyondellBasell’s shares in SunAllomer Ltd. (SunAllomer), a joint…
Prayon Group’s (Engis, Belgium; www.prayon.com) Prayon Technologies division, which specializes in the licensing of phosphoric acid processes, will provide a license and technical guidance for two new phosphoric acid plants to be built in Egypt, as part of the NCIC…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has opened its first production plant in Sri Lanka, which will produce standard and custom-made performance-based construction chemicals under the Master Builders Solutions brand, including concrete admixtures product. The new plant will allow BASF to…
Teijin Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.teijin.com) announced that it has agreed to acquire the interests owned by E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont; Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) in the companies’ film-business joint ventures (JVs) in Japan and Indonesia. The…
Specialty chemicals group Altana AG (Wesel, Germany; www.altana.com) has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary ACTEGA Rhenania GmbH, a globally leading coatings and adhesives specialist, is erecting a new laboratory building in Grevenbroich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The company is investing…
Wood Group (Aberdeen, Scotland; www.woodgroups.com) has been awarded a new contract by petrochemical manufacturer Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (Sabic; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) in the U.K. Engineering design services will be provided to the Sabic Teesside complex in Wilton, U.K.…
Emerson (St. Luois, Mo.; www.emerson.com) has signed an agreement to purchase the Valves & Controls business of Pentair plc (Manchester, U.K.; www.pentair.com) for $3.15 billion. The complementary acquisition establishes Emerson's global presence in control, isolation, pressure relief valves and actuation…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has chosen Veolia Water Technologies (Moon Township, Pa.; www.veoliawatertech.com) to engineer and procure a wastewater treatment package for the 1,000,000-metric tons per year (m.t./yr) Lotte Axiall Chemical Company (LACC) ethane cracker and associated monoethylene glycol…
Ilika p.l.c. (Southampton, U.K.; www.ilika.com) announces that it is taking part in a three-year project to develop protected anodes for lithium sulfur batteries, led by Johnson Matthey Plc (London; www.matthey.com) and supported by Innovate UK and the Engineering and Physical…