Air Liquide’s (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) subsidiary Schülke, a specialist in hygiene and disinfection, has acquired Vic Pharma, a company operating in this sector in Brazil. Founded in 1990, Vic Pharma is the second-largest independent player in the Brazilian hygiene market…
Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.covestro.com)is testing a new, environmentally friendly process for recycling saline process wastewater in plastics production. A pilot plant for the process at the Krefeld-Uerdingen site in Germany was recently opened by Federal Minister for the Environment,…
Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wis.; www.virent.com) has entered into a new strategic relationship with Tesoro Corp. (San Antonio, Tex.; www.tsocorp.com) to accelerate the development and commercialization of Virent’s BioForming technology to produce cost effective, low-carbon, drop-in, bio-based fuels and chemicals. The…
Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.; www.gevo.com) has entered into a license agreement and a joint development agreement with Porta Hnos S.A. to construct multiple isobutanol plants in Argentina using corn as a feedstock. The first plant is to be wholly owned…
Royal Dutch Shell plc (The Hague, the Netherlands; www.shell.com) has reached a conditional agreement with Malaysia Hengyuan International Limited (MHIL) for the sale of its 51% shareholding in the Shell Refining Company (SRC) in Malaysia for $66.3 million. The transaction…
With the steel work that will house the main process reactor in place at its Atlas Point manufacturing site in New Castle, Delaware, Croda International Plc (Snaith, U.K.; www.croda.com) came a step closer to completing the first plant in North…
Univation Technologies (Houston; www.univation.com) and The Linde Group’s (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) Engineering Division have entered into a cooperation agreement aimed at providing performance and cost efficiencies for the production of polyethylene (PE) resins. The parties expect that this exclusive partnership…
PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk (CAP; Jakarta, Indonesia; www.chandra-asri.com) announced the successful completion of the naphtha cracker capacity-expansion project, which has been ongoing since Sept. 2013. After the expansion, the annual production capacity of CAP petrochemical products will increase by…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has started up a large air separation plant in northern China for the Yankuang Guohong Chemical Co. facility in Zoucheng City. Yankuang Guohong Chemical Co., Ltd is a subsidiary of Yankuang Group, which has total…
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has been selected by Gazprom, Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk and its general contractor NIPIgas as the licenser for cryogenic gas separation technology at the Amur Gas Processing Plant (Amur GPP), located in the far east…