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ADM announces plans to significantly expand alternative proteins production in Illinois

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (ADM; Chicago) will invest approximately $300 million to significantly expand its Decatur, Illinois, alternative protein production, as the company continues to add capacity to meet strong demand growth. ADM will further enhance its alternative protein capabilities by opening…

Linde doubles liquid products capacity at La Porte facility

Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced that it is expanding its La Porte, Texas, facility, effectively doubling the facility’s merchant liquid production capacity. Starting up in 2024, the increased capacity will help Linde to meet growing demand from the petrochemicals, clean…

LyondellBasell sells Australian polymers business to Viva Energy Group

Viva Energy Group Ltd. has agreed to acquire LyondellBasell Australia (LBA), a Geelong-based national polymer manufacturer and distributor which has its production facility located inside the footprint of Geelong Refinery. This will be a key step in the development of…

Air Products acquires Air Liquide’s industrial gases business in the U.A.E. and Bahrain

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced that it has acquired from Air Liquide the following businesses: Air Liquide Emirates for Industrial Gases LLC (ALEMIR) and Orca Industrial Gases LLC, which includes liquid bulk, packaged gases and specialty gases of Air…

KBR awarded technology contracts in Taiwan

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a contract for its ROSE supercritical Solvent De-Asphalting (SDA) technology and Vacuum Distillation Unit (VDU) from Taiwan's state-owned oil company, CPC Corporation. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide…

ADM invests in expanded soybean-processing capabilities in Germany

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (ADM; Chicago) announced a growth investment to add the ability to process non-GMO soybeans at its oilseed facility in Mainz, Germany.  "A key pillar of our growth strategy is our expanding portfolio of differentiated products, which are powering…

ArcelorMittal acquires majority stake in voestalpine’s HBI facility in Texas

ArcelorMittal has signed an agreement to acquire an 80% shareholding in voestalpine’s world-class Hot Briquetted Iron (HBI) plant located in Corpus Christi, Texas. voestalpine will retain the remaining 20%. The transaction values the Corpus Christi operations at $1 billion and…

MilliporeSigma acquires automated bioreactor-sampling platform from Lonza

MilliporeSigma, the U.S. and Canada life science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany a leading science and technology company,announced the acquisition of MAST (Modular Automated Sampling Technology) platform from Lonza AG (Basel, Switzerland). The MAST platform is an automated, aseptic…

Röhm announces further investment in capacity expansion for Plexiglas molding compounds

Following the expansion of production facilities for PLEXIGLAS molding compounds in Worms (Germany) and Shanghai (China), Röhm (Darmstadt, Germany)  is further driving the growth of the company by the additional expansion of capacities for impact-resistant PLEXIGLAS, the brand polymethyl methacrylate…

Bentley Systems acquires ADINA to extend nonlinear simulation portfolio

Bentley Systems, Inc. (Exton, Pa.), the infrastructure engineering software company, tannounced it has acquired Watertown, Massachusetts-based ADINA R & D Inc., a leading developer of finite element analysis software applications used in a comprehensively diverse range of engineering fields (adina.com).…