The Buhler Group (Uzwil, Switzerland; www.buhlergroup.com) and Sigma-Aldrich (www.sigma-aldrich.com) have signed an agreement in which research volumes of nanoparticle dispersions from Buhler will be sold worldwide exclusively by Sigma-Aldrich. These products are dispersions of nanoscale inorganic particles in water and organic…
Sinopec-SABIC (Tianjin) Petrochemical Co., Ltd (SSTPC), a joint venture between Sinopec and SABIC, relies on Meteor (Most Effective Technology for Ethylene Oxide Reaction) Process from The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow; Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) to produce ethylene oxide (EO) / ethylene…
ExxonMobil Chemical Technology Licensing LLC (EMCTL) and ExxonMobil Catalyst Technologies LLC (EMCT; www.exxonmobilchemical.com) today announced that Suphon Tubtimcharoon, managing director of Thai Paraxylene Company Ltd. (TPX; www.thaioil.co.th/product/petrochemical_en.php), and Gary T. Schmidt, vice president of EMCTL and President of EMCT, signed…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with Boliden AB (Stockholm, Sweden; www.boliden.com) for the delivery of Kaldo furnace technology to Boliden’s Rönnskär copper smelter in Sweden. The delivery will be a part of Boliden’s electronic-scrap recycling facility…
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) today announced that its Advanced Engineered Materials business has completed a transaction to acquire two product lines, DuPont Zenite liquid crystal polymer (LCP) and Thermx polycyclohexylene-dimethylene terephthalate (PCT), from DuPont Performance Polymers. “This acquisition will…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) and TSRC Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan www.tsrc.com.tw) will enter into a 50:50 joint venture (JV) in Greater China called Lanxess-TSRC (Nantong) Chemical Industrial Company Ltd. The two companies are jointly investing $50 million in a new plant…
Concern over the economic crisis in Greece continued to widen and drag stocks down in the U.S. and elsewhere. The S&P 500 Index fell 6.5% last week, while the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC) market capitalization of U.S. basic and specialty…
Pemex Refinacion (Pemex-Refining; Mexico; www.ref.pemex.com) and Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) have signed a contract, which includes the modernization of eight existing diesel hydrotreaters and licensing of one new diesel hydrotreater at the Pemex Tula and Salamanca Refineries in…
DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products, LLC (Loudon, Tenn), a joint venture between DuPont (www.dupont.com) and Tate & Lyle (www.tateandlyle.com), today announced an expansion to their facility here to increase production of bio-based 1,3 propanediol (Bio-PDO) by 35%. Construction is…
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) is set to construct a large, state-of-the-art air separation unit (ASU) for ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel corporation, at ArcelorMittal’s Temirtau site in Kazakhstan. This plant will be Kazakhstan’s first industrial-scale development with a…