Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals FZE has selected Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) to supply advanced technology, services, proprietary catalysts and equipment to help enable the refinery to process a wider range of crude and double the production capacity at…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has officially commissioned its high-performance dispersant production line at the Jiangbei New Material Technology Park, Nanjing, China. This investment enables local production of the most advanced dispersants using Controlled Free Radical Polymerization (CFRP) technology. The overall…
The following are recently published, first-edition books with possible relevance to various parts of the chemical process industries (CPI): Gas-Solid Adsorption Thermodynamics. Edited by Bidyut B. Raha, Tahmid H. Rupam and Hongbin Ma, Elsevier Science, 2025, 352 pages, $188.00. High-Entropy…
AstraZeneca (Cambridge, U.K.) announced plans to invest $2 billion to expand its long-standing manufacturing footprint in Maryland. This includes a significant expansion of its flagship biologics manufacturing facility in Frederick and construction of a new state-of-the-art facility in Gaithersburg for…
OCI Global (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) a leading global producer and distributor of nitrogen products, announced that it has reached an agreement for the sale of 100% of its equity interests in OCI Ammonia Holding B.V. (OCI AH) to AGROFERT, a.s.,…
thyssenkrupp Uhde Fertilizer Technology (UFT), a licensing company of thyssenkrupp Uhde, has signed contracts with the Nigerian Company Dangote Fertiliser Limited (DFL) to provide its UFT Fluid Bed Granulation Technology for four new urea granulation trains as part of four…
Toyo Ink India Pvt. Ltd., a member of Japan’s artience Group, has announced plans to expand liquid ink production at its Gujarat Plant, in western India, to meet burgeoning demand from the country’s packaging market. The new facility, which is…
Veolia (Paris, France) announced its largest and "most transformative" acquisition since the merger with Suez both for its growth acceleration in the U.S. and for the U.S. Hazardous waste. The Group has entered into an agreement with Enviri to acquire…
Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of Asia Union Electronic Chemical Corporation (AUECC), a Taiwanese semiconductor process chemicals company. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including obtaining…
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, has collaborated with Lenovo Group Ltd. and Equinix Inc. to successfully launch a state-of-the-art high-performance computer in Munich, Germany, designed to accelerate innovation across the three business sectors of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany: Life Science, Healthcare…