Tessenderlo Group (www.tessenderlo.com) announced that it has signed an agreement to sell its Aliphos feed phosphate business to EcoPhos, an entrepreneurial Belgian producer and developer with feed phosphate as its core activity. The sale comprises one production site in Rotterdam,…
Vencorex (Saint-Priest, France; www.vencorex.com), an isocyanate joint venture between PTT Global Chemical, of Thailand, and Perstorp Group, of Sweden, is expanding its global capacity for Tolonate HDI derivatives by establishing a new production unit in Thailand. With a capacity of…
Cabot Corp. (Boston, Mass.; www.cabot-corp.com) announced that it has completed its acquisition of the equity stake owned by Grupo Kuo S.A.B. de C.V. in its Mexican carbon-black manufacturing joint venture (JV), NHUMO, S.A.de C.V. NHUMO is the leading carbon-black producer in Mexico,…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has signed a contract with ArcelorMittal to supply three Prism PHG100 hydrogen-gas generators (PHG) and a high-purity Prism GN700 nitrogen generator for its Saint Chély d'Apcher plant in Southern France. The plant is now…
GE (www.ge.com) and Carbon Holdings today signed a US$500 million agreement to provide technology and equity support to the greenfield naphtha cracker and olefins complex project of Tahrir Petrochemicals in Ain Sokhna, Egypt. As part of the partnership, GE will…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by Axion Energy Argentina S.A., a subsidiary of Bridas Corp., to provide engineering and procurement (EPC) services for…
Novozymes (Copenhagen, Denmark; www.novozymes.com) has announced that it will supply enzyme technology to the world’s first biomass to glycols biorefinery to be constructed by M&G Chemicals in China. The bio-refinery will be located in Anhui province, close to Fuyang in…
Specialty chemicals company Lanxess (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has completed the expansion of its cresol production plant in Leverkusen, Germany, and has now begun operating a newly constructed reaction system as well as a second distillation column. The expansion increases capacity…
Evonik Industries (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is significantly expanding its global isophorone (IP) and isophorone diamine (IPD) capacities by funding an investment of more than €100 million in Shanghai, China. The new production plants will be completed in the first quarter…
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Paris; www.oecd.org) released its composite leading indicator (CLI) for September and, according to the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), the data signal improvements in growth in most major OECD countries…