Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) announces a new longterm agreement in Australia with Nyrstar, an integrated mining and metals company. Air Liquide will invest €60 million in a new air separation unit (ASU) as part of Nyrstar’s Redevelopment Project at its Port…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded a contract by Qingdao Soda Ash Industrial New Material & Technology Company to provide the technology, engineering, selected critical equipment and technical services for an ethylbenzene styrene monomer (EBSM) plant to be located in…
Kurita Water Industries Ltd. (Tokyo; www.kurita.co.jp) has completed the procedures for the acquisition of the Water Solutions, Paper Solutions and Alumina Compounds businesses of BK Giulini GmbH of Germany and its affiliates (BKG), and Kurita Europe APW GmbH (KEAG), an…
The Lubrizol Corp. (Wickliffe, Ohio; www.lubrizol.com) has acquired EcoQuimica Industria e Comercio Produtos Quimica Ltda., a manufacturer and supplier of coatings technology for products sold into decorative paints, textiles, cement, elastomeric coatings and paper coatings. Headquartered in Paulínia, a municipality…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has agreed to sell its German-based refrigerant business and pharma propellants to Daikin in Japan, as its Special Chemicals Global Business Unit is gearing its activities towards selective high value-added segments in fluorine specialties and…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) has started up a new facility for producing thiochemicals. The thiochemicals platform, which came onstream in Kerteh, Malaysia at the beginning of 2015, produces methyl mercaptan for use as a synthesis intermediate in animal feed and…
EnPro AS has awarded Pöyry Oyj (Vantaa, both Finland; www.poyry.fi) with the basic engineering assignment for a soda-ash manufacturing plant to be located in Kollsnes, Norway. Pöyry's scope of work includes basic engineering services for the integral plant operations including…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has invested in Nanocomp Oy Ltd. (Lehmo, Finland) and now holds a minority share in the company. It was made as part of an investment syndicate with Finnvera Venture Capital. The investment sum was…
Sadara Chemical Co., a joint venture between The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) and Aramco, Saudi Arabian Oil Co., and Chemie-Cluster Bayern GmbH (CCB) have signed an agreement to cooperate and jointly support the development of chemical-based value chains…
ASD Global Inc. (Walnut Creek, Calif.; www.asdglobalinc.com) has joined Intergraph Corp. (Huntsville, Ala.; www.intergraph.com) in Intergraph’s SmartPlant Alliance as an Alliance Technology Partner, interfacing ASD’s software with Intergraph Smart 3D next-generation 3D design software. This partnership provides an integrated solution…