Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala) announced a strategic transaction involving Borealis Group AG (Vienna, Austria), one of Europe’s leading petrochemical companies. Under this agreement, ADNOC will acquire a 25% shareholding in Borealis from Mubadala.…
DOMO Chemicals (Leuna, Germany) is investing to expand production capacity of TECHNYL polyamide in China to meet growing market demand This plan aims to meet growing demand in the automotive, electrical & electronics, and industrial consumer goods industries, and help…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced that Air Products San Fu Co. Ltd has been selected by one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers to supply industrial gases to the customer’s new semiconductor manufacturing facility in Kaohsiung, Southern Taiwan. Air…
Air Liquide SA (Paris) and EZZ Steel (Cairo, Egypt), one of the leading steel producers in the Middle East and Africa, have signed a new longterm agreement for the supply of industrial gases to EZZ’s new plant in Ain Sokhna,…
To lower their climate impact, petroleum refiners are increasingly assessing greenhouse-gas-emission intensities as they consider processing lower-carbon feedstocks. One area of particular activity is sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), where demand growth is accelerating While the oil-and-gas industry has been on…
Industrial gases are critical for a wide range of applications throughout the chemical process industries (CPI). Many of these gases must be separated from others, such as nitrogen from air, or hydrogen from natural gas using physical gas-separation techniques that…
Before being fed to the blast furnace, iron ore is first converted into pellets by, for example, a traveling-grate (TG) pelletizing plant. In this plant, so-called green pellets are conveyed through a furnace that heats the pellets to high temperatures…
Last month, Vale S.A. (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; www.vale.com) began construction on the first commercial plant to use its Tecnored process, which produces pig iron with biomass instead of metallurgical coal (coke). Located in Marabá, in the southeast of Pará,…
Cabot Corp. (Boston, Ma.) announced the expansion of its Inkjet manufacturing facility in Haverhill, Massachusetts with the addition of a new production line. The expansion will increase the company’s global capacity for color aqueous pigment dispersions and is part of…
Saint-Gobain Ceramics announcds the acquisition of Monofrax LLC from the German fund Callista. Located in Falconer, New York , Monofrax offers a wide range of fused cast refractories in various product chemistries. These materials are successfully used for glass melting, steel reheat, electrolytic…