As part of the joint venture Elme Messer Gaas, Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany; www.messergroup.com) and the BLRT Grupp, one of the biggest industrial holdings in the Baltic States, have invested around €5 million in a new oxygen production plant in Järvakandi, Estonia. [more]
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has begun production at its new fluoroelastomers (FKM) plant in Changshu, China, as part of its ongoing strategic site expansion, to meet booming demand for its specialty polymers from Asia’s fast-growing automotive industry and multiple other high-end markets. [more]
Honeywell (Morristown, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Elster Division of Melrose Industries plc, a leading provider of thermal gas solutions for commercial, industrial, and residential heating systems and gas, water, and electricity meters, including smart meters and software and data analytics solutions, for approximately $5.1 billion. [more]
H.B. Fuller Co. (St. Paul, Minn.; www.hbfuller.com) broke ground on its future manufacturing facility in Surabaya, Indonesia. This future facility will strengthen H.B. Fuller’s network in the Asia Pacific region and will complement the products and technical service offered by the company’s manufacturing facilities in China, the Philippines, Malaysia and Australia. [more]
QuantumSphere, Inc. (QSI; Santa Ana, Calif.; www.qsinano.com) says it has completed its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility for the production of the company’s proprietary FeNIX nano-iron catalyst product. FeNIX nanocatalysts were developed to address costly production inefficiencies within the several hundred ammonia plants in operation worldwide. [more]
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; www.mhi-global.com) and Mitsubishi Corp. (MC; both Tokyo, Japan; www.mitsubishicorp.com) will build a large-scale ammonia and urea fertilizer production plant for Navoiyazat Joint Stock Co. (Navoiyazat JSC), a chemical production company of the Uzkimyosanoat Joint Stock Co. (Uzkimyosanoat JSC) that manages chemical enterprises in Uzbekistan. [more]
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