ADM (Chicago) announced it will invest to significantly expand starch production at its Marshall, Minnesota, facility in order to meet fast-growing demand from the food and beverage sectors, and to support the continued expansion of the company’s BioSolutions platform. “We’re…
Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; petrobras.com.br) announced that it signed a contract with the Toyo Setal HDT Paulínia Consortium, formed by the companies TSE and TOYO, for the construction of a new diesel hydrotreatment unit (HDT) at the Paulínia Refinery…
Henkel AG (Düsseldorf, Germany) announced the opening of its Application Center in Santa Clara, CA designed to support product development for the company’s high-tech customers in the Silicon Valley region. Equipped as a state-of-the-art facility, the Application Center will help…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it was awarded a contract for its green ammonia technology, K-GreeN, from JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan) for a project sponsored by New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), a national research and development agency…
As a part of its next phase of its strategic transformation, Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) is aligning its portfolio completely to its three growth divisions: Specialty Additives, Nutrition & Care, and Smart Materials. Preparations are already under way for…
Sandvik AB (Sandviken, Sweden) has signed an agreement to acquire the mining related business of Schenck Process Group (SP Mining). SP Mining is one of the market leaders in screening, feeding and screening media solutions in the industry. The company…
Saur and Veolia (Paris) have signed a unilateral put agreement under which Saur has committed to acquire Veolia's mobile water services business in Europe, which is part of the antitrust remedies required by the European Commission. The value of the…
Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) has been appointed capital delivery partner by Esseco UK for the company’s chemical production facility in Wakefield, U.K. The five-year contract will see Wood draw on its rich experience and capability in asset maintenance and operations…
DuPont Interconnect Solutions, a business within DuPont’s Electronics & Industrial segment, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony with elected officials and business leaders to formally mark the completion of its $250-million capital project to expand production of Kapton polyimide film and Pyralux…
Global demand for methane sulfonic acid (MSA) has increased steadily over the past years. This trend is fueled by a growing interest in environmentally optimized products and formulations. In response to growing customer demand, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has invested…