GEA Group AG (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com) is planning to build a separator production facility in Wuqing, China. Production is scheduled to start in 2011. The site, which is located immediately next to an existing GEA Heat Exchangers Segment production plant,…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) started a new production unit for high-quality, black iron-oxide pigments at its site in Jinshan, Shanghai. The produced color shades are the most advanced bluish type black pigments in the industry. With the annual capacity…
AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has underscored its ambition to double revenue in China within the next five years by opening its sixth powder coatings facility in the country. The plant is located in the Wuhan Economic and Technological Development…
BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Co.; Franklin Lakes, N.J.: www.bd.com), and Lonza Group Ltd (Basel, Switzerland; www.lonza.com) have entered into an exclusive licensing and collaboration agreement for Lonza to commercialize its microCompass molecular assays on the…
Metso (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) will supply a new biomass-fired power boiler, utilizing bubbling fluidized-bed technology, and a fluegas cleaning and condensation system to Bomhus Energi AB. The value of the order is over €50 million, and the order will be…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is planning to significantly increase its silica (precipitated silicic acids) production capacity over the next four years. “By 2014 we will have gradually expanded global capacity at our existing plants by 25%, thus securing…
Yara Praxair (www.yarapraxair.com) — a 50-50 joint venture between Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) and Yara International ASA — will invest in a new air separation unit (ASU) to be located in Perstorp, Sweden. The plant, with a capacity of…
ExxonMobil (Fairfax, Va.; www.exxonmobil.com) has completed commissioning of new units to produce ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) at its Baytown, Tex., and Baton Rouge, La. refineries. This will enable ExxonMobil to increase the supply of ULSD by over 3 million gal/d…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) plans to build a production facility for customer specific antioxidant blends (CSB) in Bahrain. The new CSB plant will come in addition to the existing tolling agreement for CSB with Astra Polymer in the Kingdom…
Inspirion Ventures, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nova Chemicals Inc. (Moon Township, Pa.; www.novachem.com) and PolymerPark materials GmbH (Aachen, Germany; www.polymer-park.com) have formed a joint venture (JV) to bring PolymerPark’s VarioLine technology to North America. VarioLine is a lightweight, foam…