MilliporeSigma (Billerica, Mass.; www.emdgroup.com) announced the expansion of its state-of-the-art single-use current good manufacturing process (cGMP) facility with the addition of the Mobius 2000-L single-use bioreactor. With the new upstream suite at its Biodevelopment Center in France, MilliporeSigma can offer full…
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) announced the signing of an agreement between Linde and alternative energy company Renergen for the development of the Free State Helium and Natural Gas (NG) field near Welkom in South Africa, expected to commence…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany, www.basf.com) sold its former sterols manufacturing facility in Pasadena, Tex., to Trecora Chemical (TC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Trecora, a leading provider of high purity specialty hydrocarbons and waxes. Both parties agreed not to disclose…
G2X Energy, Inc. (Houston; www.g2xenergy.com) announced that they have entered into license and engineering contracts with Johnson Matthey (London, U.K.; www.matthey.com) for their previously announced world-scale methanol production facility located in Lake Charles, La. Johnson Matthey will supply the technology…
Total S.A. (Paris; www.total.com) has officially inaugurated the production of the company’s new high-purity special fluids facility in Bayport, Tex. Today’s ribbon-cutting represents the completion of a $100-million investment by the global integrated energy producer and leading international oil-and-gas organization.…
DuPont Clean Technologies (Overland Park, Kan. www.cleantechnologies.dupont.com) is pleased to announce that Hengli Petrochemical Co. (Hengli), based in Dalian, China, has awarded DuPont a contract to supply the alkylation and spent-acid regeneration (SAR) technologies for the new grassroots refinery in…
Ucore Rare Metals Inc. (Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada; www.ucore.com) has announced the completion of construction of all Molecular Recognition Technology (MRT) superstructure, processing architecture, automation systems, and initial water testing of the SuperLig-One rare-earth separation pilot plant by IBC Advanced…
The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) is celebrating the inaugural shipment of its Dow Filmtec Reverse Osmosis (RO) elements from its new Saudi Arabia Dow Water & Process Solutions’ (DW&PS) Jubail Operations manufacturing facility. This first shipment is targeted…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) will further expand its Austrian site in Lenzing/Schörfling to double the existing production capacities for the hollow-fiber membrane modules of its Sepuran brand. The membrane offers a method for the separation of gases from…
Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (Tokyo; www.mitsui.com) and Hankuk Carbon Co., Ltd. (HC) have entered into a strategic alliance agreement to engage in collaborative business activities relating to the processing of composite materials. Based on this agreement, Mitsui will acquire a…