Romarco Minerals, Inc. (Toronto, Ontario; www.romarco.com) has awarded Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies (Moon Township, Pa.; www.veoliawaterstna.com) a contract to supply engineering design, equipment, construction oversight and startup of a new 1,200 gallon per minute (gal/min) DesneSludge water treatment plant…
Wendelsheim (Germany), September 18, 2013 – Ehrfeld Mikrotechnik BTS GmbH (EMB; Wendelsheim; www.ehrfeld.com), a subsidiary of Bayer Technology Services GmbH (Leverkusen, both Germany; www.bayertechnology.com), has acquired a worldwide license from Alfa Laval AB (Lund, Sweden; www.alfalaval.com) to market and manufacture…
Fauske & Associates, LLC (FAI; Burr Ridge, Ill.; www.fauske.com), a leader in nuclear, industrial and chemical process safety, becomes one of the most comprehensive, state-of-the-art combustible dust hazards testing laboratories and education centers in the world. With regard to industrial and…
Henkel AG & Co. (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.henkel.com) has inaugurated the world’s largest adhesives factory in Shanghai. With this new production facility the company is expanding its production capacity in a major emerging market and will deliver its innovative adhesive technologies…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, has announced that its technology has been selected to produce key ingredients for fuels and synthetic rubber in China. China’s Panjin Heyun New Material Co. will use Honeywell’s UOP C4 Oleflex…
Novozymes (Copenhagen, Denmark; www.novozymes.com) announced today that it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Brazil’s largest sugarcane crusher, Raízen Energia S/A (São Paulo, Brazil; www.raizen.com.br). As part of the agreement, Novozymes will supply enzyme technology to Raízen’s first commercial-scale…
Brenntag (Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany; www.brenntag.com), a global market chemical distributor, has signed an agreement to acquire the chemical distribution division of the Zytex Group, a biotechnology food formulation and manufacturing company in India, by means of an asset…
PT Chandra Asri Tbk (Jakarta, Indonesia; www.chandra-asri.com) has signed a cooperation contract for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) with Toyo Engineering Corp. for the expansion of Chandra Asri’s naphtha cracker. The expansion will increase the cracker’s production capacity by up…
Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.huntsman.com) and Rockwood Holdings, Inc. have announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement whereby Huntsman will acquire Rockwood’s Performance Additives and Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) businesses. Under the terms of the agreement Huntsman will…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) opened a new production plant for concrete admixtures in Kazan, Russia. Together with the facility inaugurated in Podolsk near Moscow in 2012, BASF now supplies the Russian construction sector with a broad range of concrete…