BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will invest in a dispersions plant in Durban, South Africa. The new plant will produce acrylic dispersions mainly for the coatings and construction industry. The facility will benefit from local availability of raw materials and…
Kobe Steel, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.kobelco.com) has acquired a 44.3% equity share in Wuxi Compressor Co., Ltd., based in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China, after reaching agreement with parent company Wuxi Victor Group Co., Ltd. The investment will enable Kobe Steel to…
Sasol (Johannesburg, South Africa; www.sasol.com) has selected S & B Engineers and Constructors, Ltd. (Houston; www.sbec.com) as its engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCm) contractor to construct its recently announced ethylene Tetramerization plant at Lake Charles, La. The pioneering plant…
Elevance Renewable Sciences Inc. (Bolingbrook, Ill.; www.elevance.com) and Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, The Netherlands; www.dsm.com) recently announced their intention to collaborate in evaluating Elevance’s unique monomers for the production of specialty bio-based thermoplastic materials for DSM’s engineering plastics portfolio. Elevance…
ZeaChem Inc. (Lakewood, Colo.; www.zeachem.com) a developer of biorefineries for the conversion of renewable biomass into sustainable fuels and chemicals, today announced it has signed a long-term binding term sheet with GreenWood Tree Farm Fund (GTFF) to supply hybrid poplar…
Composite leading indicators (CLIs) in March for industrial production continue to point to global recovery, according to the latest American Chemistry Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) Weekly Chemistry and Economic Trends report, which cites data from the Organization for…
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Karlsruhe, Germany; www.thermoscientific.com) today announced a collaboration with integrated process technology provider Glatt Process Technology GmbH (Binzen, Germany; www.glatt.com) to deliver continuous twin-screw granulation and drying solutions for the pharmaceutical industry. Together, the two companies provide…
The M&G Group (Tortona, Italy; www.gruppomg.com), a major producer of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), has announced that it will build a next-generation-technology PET plant in the U.S., co-located and fully integrated with a new PTA (purified terephthalic acid) plant at the…
Honeywell (Morris Township, J.J.; www.honeywell.com) has tripled production capacity for its low-global-warming-potential (GWP) product HFO-1234ze to meet the growing need for the material, which is used in multiple foam and aerosol applications. The production expansion was made at Honeywell’s small-scale…
The technology group The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) and Sapphire Energy, Inc. (San Diego, Calif.; http://www.sapphireenergy.com) have entered into a multi-year agreement to co-develop a low-cost system to deliver carbon dioxide (CO2) to commercial-scale, open-pond, algae-to-fuel cultivation systems. Linde, the…