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 (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, 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…
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 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, 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…
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, 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).…
Versalis S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese), Eni’s chemical company, has agreed to license its proprietary continuous mass technology to Shandong Eco Chemical Co. Ltd, a Chinese company part of Shandong Haike Holding Ltd. The license will be granted for a 210,000-ton/yr…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced that Zhejiang Petroleum & Chemical Co. Ltd. (ZPC) will license again the LyondellBasell high-pressure polyethylene (PE) technology at their facility located in Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province, P.R. of China. The Lupotech process technology will be…