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…
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has signed a contract with Anhui Sanan OptoElectronics Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Sanan OptoElectronics, to build two on-site ammonia plants at Sanan’s new high brightness light emitting diode (LED) manufacturing…
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) plans to construct a new 180-mile long pipeline connecting its existing Louisiana and Texas hydrogen pipeline systems, creating the world’s largest hydrogen plant and pipeline supply network. This integrated pipeline system…
Wacker Chemicals Korea Inc., a Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) subsidiary, is acquiring the Lucky Silicone brand from Henkel Technologies (Korea) Ltd.. The two companies announced a purchase agreement to this effect today. The transaction still requires antitrust approval.…
Air Liquide (Paris; www.airliquide.com) announces the commissioning of a new high-pressure and high-purity gaseous oxygen production unit in Italy. It was installed in Castelnuovo del Garda, near Verona, where Air Liquide already operates another air separation unit. With a production…
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) and Matheson (www.mathesongas.com), a member of the Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. (TNSC) group, today announced that onsite construction has commenced on a new, jointly-owned liquid helium production plant near Big Piney,…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced today that Elecnor S.A. (Madrid, Spain; www.elecnor.es) has awarded the company an engineering services contract for two new 50-MW concentrating solar power (CSP) plants in Alcazar de San Juan, Spain. Fluor booked the undisclosed…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has been awarded a contract by Japan’s Marubeni Corp. for the design and supply of two pulverized coal steam generators for the Nghi Son…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has established a joint venture (JV) with LG Group (Seoul, South Korea; www.lgcorp.com) through Toyo Engineering Korea Ltd. and Serveone Co., both of which are 100% subsidiaries of their respective parent companies. The…
DSM Nutritional Products GmbH (Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany; www.dsmnutritionalproducts.com), a subsidiary of the Dutch company Royal DSM N.V. (www.dsm.com) Brain AG (Zwingenberg, Germany; www.brain-biotech.de) have announced a strategic cooperation in the biotechnological production of water-soluble vitamins. Benefiting from the long-term experience of…