Corbion Purac plans to construct a large PLA production plant in Thailand
Corbion Purac (Amsterdam, the Netherlands www.corbion.com) will accelerate its thrust into the biotechnology arena, making…
BASF and Toda Kogyo form JV for cathode-active materials
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Toda Kogyo Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.todakogyo.co.jp), an industry leader…
Messer to build third ASU in Vietnam
Messer Group (Bad Soden/Frankfurt, Germany; www.messergroup.com) is building its third gasses production plant in Vietnam.…
Clariant divests its Energy Storage Business to Johnson Matthey
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) has agreed to divest its Business Line Energy Storage to Johnson…
Cristal to acquire TiO2 assets of Jiangxi Tikon
The National Titanium Dioxide Co. (Cristal; Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; www.cristal.com) has entered into an agreement…
BASF to increase production capacity for t-butylamine plant in Nanjing
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will expand the production capacity of its existing world-scale production…
Outotec to modernize Norilsk Nickel’s smelter in Russia
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been awarded a contract by JSC MMC Norilsk Nickel…
Fluor and Technip JV awarded contract for Sasol’s La. ethane cracker and derivatives complex
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com), in a joint venture (JV) with Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com),…
Caloric wins its first project in the U.K.
Caloric Anlagenbau GmbH (Gräfelfing, Germany; www.caloric.com) has won its first contract in the U.K. for…
New Air Products Lab will help oil recyclers optimize hydrotreatment processes
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) is building a hydrogen laboratory at its corporate headquarters…
Fluor and Technip awarded RAPID Refinery Facilities Project in Malaysia
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com), in a joint venture (JV) with Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com),…
ThyssenKrupp wins follow-up order for cement plant in Saudi Arabia
ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com), the ThyssenKrupp Group's plant engineering specialist, has received…
UOP phenol technology selected by Cepsa Chemical in China
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, says that Cepsa Chemical (Shanghai) Co.…
BASF to divest global textile chemicals business to Archroma
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Archroma (Reinach, Switzerland www.archroma.com) have agreed on the sale…
Evonik opens new production facility in Brazil
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) will start operations in a new plant to produce…
Foster Wheeler awarded EPC contract for Clean Fuels Project at Salina Cruz
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and…
CB&I lands gasification-technology contract in China
CB&I (The Woodlands, Rex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract by Shandong Sincier Petrochemical Co.…
CB&I announces technology award in the Kingdom of Bahrain
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) today announced Chevron Lummus Global, a joint venture between CB&I…
Clariant invests in personal- and home-care segments in Asia
Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) will build a new production facility at its Tangerang site…
Evonik boosts capacity for special silicas at its Rheinfelden site
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has officially opened a new production line to manufacture…
M+W Group receives contract for Merck’s new pharmaceutical facility in China
M+W Group (Stuttgart, Germany; www.mwgroup.net), one of the world’s leading high-tech engineering and construction companies,…
BASF inaugurates chemical complex in India
BASF India Ltd. today inaugurated its large-scale chemical production complex at Dahej in Gujarat, India.…
New Borealis JV delivers safe and reliable energy supplies in Porvoo
Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) plans to partner with Neste Oil and Veolia in a…
Parker opens Parflex Polymer Innovation Center
Parker Hannifin Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio; www.parker.com), a global leader in motion and control technologies, today…
Eastman to acquire specialty chemicals company Taminco for $2.8 billion; and more business news
Plant Watch Lanxess expands new plant for inorganic pigments in Ningbo September 11, 2014 —…
Rethinking Intellectual Property Policies
A philosophical shift in the way universities treat intellectual property (IP) resulting from industry-sponsored research…