Plant Watch AkzoNobel invests €80 million to supply new Suzano pulp mill in Brazil February 1, 2012 — AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) plans to invest €80 million in the construction of a new pulp “chemical island” facility in Brazil.…
The engineering company Uhde Inventa-Fischer (Berlin, Germany and Domat/Ems, Switzerland; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) has successfully commissioned a plant for the production of polyamide 6.6 for its Chinese customer Huafon Group. The production plant has an annual capacity of 40,000 metric tons and…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has awarded WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) a contract for the detailed engineering, procurement support and construction management on the building of world-scale plants for the production of isophorone and isophorone diamine. The…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of DuPont’s (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) interest in DuPont Air Products NanoMaterials LLC (DA NanoMaterials; Tempe, Ariz.; www.nanoslurry.com ), the two companies’ 50-50 joint venture serving…
ZAO “Far East Petrochemical Co.” (FEPCO), which is implementing the project of OJSC “NK Rosneft” for the construction of petrochemical complex to be located in Primorsk region of Russia, has selected Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) AlphaButol and AlphaHexol technologies for…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has been awarded a contract from Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) for a major, specialty-polymers production plant to be built at Solvay's industrial site in Changshu, which is located in the province of…
Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. (Woodridge, Ill.; www.elevance.com) and Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) have formed a global partnership for the development and production of renewable specialty polymers. Elevance is providing novel, differentiated, functionalized renewable starting materials including the company’s 9-decenoic methyl…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is investing €40 million to build a CO2 concentration unit at its South African site in Newcastle. At this site, the group operates a highly modern plant, that mainly produces sodium dichromate, which is further processed…
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Rome, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.it) says that its subsidiaries, Tecnimont S.p.A. and Tecnimont do Brasil Ltda, have been awarded two contracts in Saudi Arabia and Brazil, respectively, for an overall value of $145 million. In the Kingdom of Saudi…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will acquire the electrolytes business for high-performance batteries from German Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany; www.merckgroup.com). The companies have agreed not to disclose financial details of the transaction. The acquisition comprises the…