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Grace licenses Unipol PP process technology to GAIL Limited

W.R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.), the leading independent supplier of polyolefin catalyst technology and polypropylene (PP) process technology, has licensed its UNIPOL PP process technology to GAIL (India) Ltd, India’s principal gas transmission and marketing company under the Ministry of…

Axalta breaks ground for new coatings plant in North China

Axalta Coating Systems (Philadelphia, Pa.) broke ground for construction of a state-of-the-art coatings facility in Jilin City, Jilin Province, North China. The 46,000-square-meter new plant will produce mobility coatings to support growing customer demand in China for light vehicles, commercial vehicles,…

Solvay completes new themoplastic composites production line in South Carolina

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) announced the installation completion of its new thermoplastic composites (TPC) manufacturing facility at its Greenville, South Carolina site. At full production capacity, the new line will add more than 30 positions at the 27,000-square-foot facility. The project…

Metso Outotec to provide electrowinning and solvent-extraction technology to Florence Copper

Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has signed an agreement with Florence Copper Inc., a subsidiary of Taseko Mines Limited, to supply copper solvent extraction and electrowinning technology for a plant to be built in Arizona. The order exceeding EUR 20…

Plug Power to establish European headquarters in Germany

Plug Power (Latham, N.Y.), a leading provider of turnkey solutions for green hydrogen, announced its expanding operations with a European headquarters in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. The announcement was formally made during a meeting between Andy Marsh, Plug Power CEO,…

Linde to increase capacity of air-separation plant in Florida

Linde plc (Guidlford, U.K.) announced plans to increase production capacity at its air separation plant in Mims, Florida, to meet rapidly growing demand for industrial gases. Through its investment, Linde will increase capacity at Mims by almost 50% to supply…

Braskem and SCG Chemicals jointly studying bio-ethanol dehydration plant in Thailand

Braskem S.A. (Philadelphia, Pa.) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SCG Chemicals Co. (Bangkok, Thailand) to perform studies to jointly invest in a new bio-ethanol dehydration plant in Thailand to produce bio-ethylene and I'm green bio-based Polyethylene. If implemented, this…

US Vanadium acquires processing facility in Arkansas formerly owned by Saint-Gobain

Following the recent announcement of a major capacity expansion, US Vanadium, LLC (Hot Springs, Ark.) has now announced that it purchased a materials-processing facility in Benton, Arkansas that will help the Company continue to expand its production of high-purity vanadium…

CP Kelco invests $50 million to build new citrus-fiber production line

CP Kelco (Atlanta, Ga.)announced that it will invest more than $50 million to expand production capacity for NUTRAVA Citrus Fiber, based on strong customer demand and market potential. With this significant capital investment, the company will have ample capacity for…

Evonik’s Coating Additives business announces capacity expansion in Shanghai

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) announced that its Coating Additives business line has taken another step to improve the supply situation by increasing the production capacity of several critical additives. For the first time these additives are being produced in…