AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has signaled its strategic intent to accelerate growth by investing close to €90 million in a new facility being built in Brazil. The plant, operated by the company's Pulp and Paper Chemicals business, Eka Chemicals,…
Minerals Technologies Inc. (www.mineralstech.com) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Specialty Minerals Inc., has entered into a long-term agreement with The West Coast Paper Mills Ltd. (www.westcoastpaper.com) to build and operate a satellite precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) plant at…
Genzyme Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.; www.genzyme.com) plans to build an additional manufacturing plant in Geel, Belgium, to support the long-term growth of Myozyme and Lumizyme for Pompe disease. The company held a ceremony today in Geel to mark the start of…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by Burgasnefteproekt EOOD (a Lukoil engineering subsidiary) a lump sum services contract, worth approximately €70 million, for the phase 1 of a heavy residue hydrocracking complex to be built at its petroleum refinery located…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with SNC-Lavalin, Inc. (Montreal, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) to design and deliver a new copper flash smelting furnace and related services to RTB Bor’s smelter in Serbia. The contract value exceeds €60 million.…
Sasol Technology (Pty) Ltd (Johannesburg, South Africa; www.sasol.com) has appointed the Engineering Division of The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) as preferred Licensor’s Engineering Contractors for a major portion of the Sasol, Fixed Bed Dry Bottom (FBDB) Gasification Technology for…
Global production of chemicals rose by 10.2% overall in 2010, according to data included in the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Trends report. Gains for the month of December of last year were…
The specialty chemicals Group Altana AG (Wesel, Germany; www.altana.com) has signed an agreement today to acquire Kometra Kunststoff-Modifikatoren und -Additiv GmbH. Kometra produces so-called polymer modifiers in Schkopau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. These modifiers are specific surface-active copolymers, which are used as…
The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) applauds today's signing of the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) consortium work plan for advancing clean coal technologies. B&W is one of five U.S. companies involved in this CERC consortium,…
Marking a significant step forward for coal gasification technology, GE (Atlanta, Ga.; www.ge.com) and Shenhua (Beijing, China) have agreed to form an industrial coal-gasification joint venture (JV) to advance the deployment of “cleaner coal” technology solutions in China. The new…