Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) has secured a new contract with Ineos Ltd. (London) in excess of $100 million to deliver engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCm) services for Project One, a new state-of-the-art petrochemicals complex in Antwerp, Belgium, which will…
Archroma (Basel, Switzerland) has announced plans to acquire the Textile Effects business of Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.). The combined company will continue to lead the textile industry in sustainability, innovation, and performance offering fashion brands, automotive, technical and home…
Altana AG (Wesel, Germany) announced the sale of its stake in the 3D-printing systems manufacturer dp polar, to 3D Systems, a leading Additive Manufacturing solutions partner, that has brought the innovation of 3D printing to the manufacturing industry more than…
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy), through its innovation and license company Stamicarbon, has been selected as the licensor for a urea project in Sub-Saharan Africa. This will be the first urea production facility in the Sub-Saharan Africa. Stamicarbon will deliver…
Stratasys Ltd. (Eden Prairie, Minn.), a leader in polymer 3D printing solutions, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the additive manufacturing materials business of Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany). The acquisition is expected to be immediately accretive…
Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland), the global consulting and engineering company, has been appointed as owner’s engineer for the delivery of Project Haber, Strike Energy’s $3-billion, 1.4 million ton-yr urea fertilizer production facility to be built in Western Australia. This state-of-the-art…
McDermott International, Inc (Houston) and KBR, Inc. (Houston) have entered into a global licensing agreement to provide integrated solutions for KBR's proprietary ammonia technologies. Ammonia produced from renewable or low-carbon sources, commonly referred to as green and blue ammonia, supports global…
UBE Corp. (Tokyo) has agreed to acquire all shares of API Corp. (APIC), wholly owned by Life Science Institute, Inc., a company of The Mitsubishi Chemical Group(MCG), and signed a share transfer agreement. APIC was established in October 2002 through…
To meet increasing global demand for cell culture media used in the manufacturing of new vaccines and biologics, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, Mass.) has expanded its dry-powder-media manufacturing facility in Grand Island, New York. With this expansion, the Grand…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has announced that it will produce more N-(2-Hydroxyethyl)-2-Pyrrolidone (HEP) and N-Octyl-2-Pyrrolidone (NOP) at its Geismar, Louisiana, Verbund site. The production is anticipated to be on-stream in the second half of 2022 and will ensure a global…