Orion Engineered Carbons LLC (Houston) announced that it has completed an upgrade to its Borger, Texas facility, enabling the plant to run without drawing power from the electrical grid and provide energy back to the regional grid for use in…
Sulzer Ltd. (Wintherthur, Switzerland) has delivered a customized mass transfer solution to PT Enerco RPO Internasional’s grassroots plant for the production of treated distillate aromatic extract (TDAE) in Batam, Indonesia. The facility features the world’s largest agitated extraction column type…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) is to cluster its MetAMINO (DL-methionine) production at three international hubs (Americas, Europe, and Asia) to maximize economies of scale and utilize robust processes. Evonik is a leading global manufacturer of DL-methionine, an essential amino…
Henkel Adhesive Technologies further enhances its market offerings for functional coatings by investing in actnano (Boston, Ma.). The advanced materials start-up provides a unique tailored conformal coatings technology for the protection of printed circuit boards in a variety of applications…
Air Liquide (Paris) and KGHM Polska Miedź, one of the largest producers of copper and silver in the world, have signed a new long-term contract for the supply of oxygen and nitrogen at the Głogów site in Poland. Air Liquide…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) is expanding its Chinese polymer activities by investing around $100 million in building two new production plants at its Nanjing site. The Nanjing site is expanding by adding a reactor for vinyl-acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions…
Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo) has concluded agreements to transfer its polymer flocculant sales business to MT AquaPolymer, Inc. (MTAP; Tokyo) and Hymo Corp. (Tokyo.). Once the transfer is complete, the two companies will outsource the manufacture of polymer flocculants…
Koch Separation Solutions (KSS; Wilmington, Mass.) announced that it has been selected by Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (ADM; Chicago) to become a preferred vendor of water, wastewater, and in-process separations applications based on premium services and reliable products. This mutually beneficial relationship…
A team of Pacific Northwest public and private organizations have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the development of what would be one of the largest renewable hydrogen production facilities in North America. The partners in the hydrogen production…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) will almost double the production capacity for its synthetic ester base stocks at its site in Jinshan, China. The investment comes in response to the rising demand for high-performance lubricants in Asia Pacific and further strengthens…