Technology company The Linde Group The Linde Group (Pullach, Germany; www.linde.com) has added a petrochemical plant business unit to its Engineering Division offices in Houston. The new regional business unit broadens Linde Engineering's capabilities in North America and will serve…
Exports of chemicals from the U.S. rose 3.2% in June to $16.7 billion, while imports were down 2.4% to $16.4 billion, according to data from the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report from the American Chemistry Council (Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com).…
Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria: www.borealisgroup.com) has announced the signing of an agreement with DuPont Holding Netherlands B.V. to purchase the company's 67% shareholding in Speciality Polymers Antwerp N.V. Speciality Polymers Antwerp N.V., located in Zwijndrecht (Antwerp, Belgium) is a joint…
Yara International ASA (Oslo, Norway; www.yara.com) has entered into an agreement to acquire a 60% stake in Galvani Indústria, Comércio e Serviços S/A, for an enterprise value of $318 million. Galvani is an independent, privately held fertilizer company, controlled by…
Genomatica (San Diego, Calif.; www.genomatica.com) has announced that major nylon intermediates — including hexamethylenediamine, caprolactam and adipic acid (HMD, CPL and ADA, respectively) — are the focus of its third publicly-disclosed development program. Genomatica is developing complete process technologies for…
Mexichem S.A.B. de C.V. (Tlalnepantla, Mexico; www.mexichem.com) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire polyvinyl chloride (PVC) specialist Vestolit GmbH (Marl, Germany; www.vestolit.de) from Strategic Value Partners LLC, acting on behalf of its managed funds and accounts. The acquisition of…
As part of its procurement policy for strategic raw materials, Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) has reached an agreement for the supply of propylene with Enterprise Products Partners L.P., a leading U.S. midstream Energy Company. Taking advantage of the development of…
Ashland Inc.’s (Covington, Ky.; www.ashland.com) Ashland Specialty Ingredients commercial unit has announced that it plans to expand capacity at its Natrosol hydroxyethylcellulose (HEC) production facility in Nanjing by 4,000 metric tons (m.t.), or approximately 40%, over the next 18 months.…
NORTH AMERICA 5th Biobased Chemicals Conference: Commercialization & Partnering. Global Tech Community (Monrovia, Calif.). Phone: 626-256-6405; Web: gtcbio.com San Francisco, Calif. Sept. 18–19 43rd Turbomachinery and 30th Pump Users’ Symposia. Texas A&M University (College Station, Tex.). Phone: 979-845-7417; Web:…
Baumann Ghasemi Guy Quinn Blackburn Gerhard Baumann becomes managing director for Brookfield GmbH (Lorch, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany), a maker of laboratory instrumentation. Specialty gas company Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) appoints Seifi Ghasemi chairman, president and CEO, succeeding John McGlade,…