Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) and Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc., a member of the Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation group, have announced that production operations have begun with the filling and shipping of the first two 11,000-gallon helium ISO containers from…
Umicore N.V. (Brussels, Belgium; www.umicore.com) has announced the construction of a production facility in Nowa Ruda, Poland, for emission-control catalysts used in cars and trucks. The investment will allow Umicore to meet the growth in demand for automotive catalysts from…
Ineos Technologies (Rolle, Switzerland; www.ineos.com) has licensed its Innovene S process to Hyundai Engineering Co., for the Turkmengas new greenfield world-scale petrochemical complex in the Balkan Region of Turkmenistan. The contract for construction of the gas chemical complex in Turkmenistan,…
GE (Fairfield, Conn.; www.ge.com) has announced the construction of a new state-of-the-art Power & Water advanced manufacturing facility to be built in Greenville, SC. GE plans to invest $400 million over the next ten years in Greenville to expand the…
Sasol Chemicals North America LLC (Westlake, La.; www.sasolnorthamerica.com) and INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA (La Porte, Tex.; www.ineos.com) announced today that they have reached final investment decision to form a joint venture to build a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plant in…
The specialty chemicals group Altana (Wesel, Germany; www.altana.com) has announced the grand opening of a plant for its additives subsidiary BYK USA Inc. The expanded facility is located in Wallingford, Conn. With this plant, BYK more than doubles production capacity…
Enerkem (Montreal, Canada; www.enerkem.com) has inaugurated its first full-scale municipal waste-to-biofuels and chemicals facility in Edmonton, Alberta. “Our breakthrough technology uses garbage instead of fossil sources for the production of chemicals and liquid transportation fuels. We are proud of…
The S&P index for chemical companies was up 8.5% from the beginning of 2014, while the wider and more diverse S&P 500 index was up 4.1% over the same time period, according to data discussed in the latest Weekly Chemistry…
OriginOil Inc. (Los Angeles, Calif.; www.originoil.com), developer of Electro Water Separation (EWS), the high-speed, chemical-free process to clean up large quantities of water, announced today that CLEAN-FRAC 1000, its new demonstration-scale hydraulic fracturing water-treatment system, was shown to successfully remove…
A. Schulman, Inc. (Akron, Ohio; www.aschulman.com) has announced an agreement to purchase a selected majority of the assets of the Specialty Plastics business segment from Ferro Corp. Ferro’s Specialty Plastics business segment develops high-quality specialty compounds, colors and coatings. When…