EdeniQ, Inc. (Visalia, Calif,; www.edeniq.com) and Logos Technologies, Inc. (Arlington, Va.; www.logos-technologies.com) announced today the signing of a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE; Washington, D.C.; www.energy.gov) to receive up to $20.5 million in federal cost share under…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with the First Quantum Minerals Limited Projects Office (Perth, Australia) for the delivery of flotation, thickening and automation technologies for several of their operations around the world. The total value of the contracts exceeds…
Messer Group GmbH (Sulzbach/Frankfurt, Germany; www.messergroup.com) has commissioned a new CO2 liquefaction plant with a production capacity of 150,000 ton/yr of carbon dioxide on the site of the British company Ineos Oxide in Zwijndrecht near Antwerp, Belgium. The Messer Group…
Lonza Group Ltd. (Basel, Switzerland; www.lonzagroup.com) has selected Nansha, its leading high-tech life-science site in China, as location for its new vitamin B3 manufacturing site. The investment, which was approved by the board of directors of Lonza Group Ltd, will help…
The Buhler Group (Uzwil, Switzerland; www.buhlergroup.com) and Sigma-Aldrich (www.sigma-aldrich.com) have signed an agreement in which research volumes of nanoparticle dispersions from Buhler will be sold worldwide exclusively by Sigma-Aldrich. These products are dispersions of nanoscale inorganic particles in water and organic…
Sinopec-SABIC (Tianjin) Petrochemical Co., Ltd (SSTPC), a joint venture between Sinopec and SABIC, relies on Meteor (Most Effective Technology for Ethylene Oxide Reaction) Process from The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow; Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) to produce ethylene oxide (EO) / ethylene…
ExxonMobil Chemical Technology Licensing LLC (EMCTL) and ExxonMobil Catalyst Technologies LLC (EMCT; www.exxonmobilchemical.com) today announced that Suphon Tubtimcharoon, managing director of Thai Paraxylene Company Ltd. (TPX; www.thaioil.co.th/product/petrochemical_en.php), and Gary T. Schmidt, vice president of EMCTL and President of EMCT, signed…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with Boliden AB (Stockholm, Sweden; www.boliden.com) for the delivery of Kaldo furnace technology to Boliden’s Rönnskär copper smelter in Sweden. The delivery will be a part of Boliden’s electronic-scrap recycling facility…
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) today announced that its Advanced Engineered Materials business has completed a transaction to acquire two product lines, DuPont Zenite liquid crystal polymer (LCP) and Thermx polycyclohexylene-dimethylene terephthalate (PCT), from DuPont Performance Polymers. “This acquisition will…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) and TSRC Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan www.tsrc.com.tw) will enter into a 50:50 joint venture (JV) in Greater China called Lanxess-TSRC (Nantong) Chemical Industrial Company Ltd. The two companies are jointly investing $50 million in a new plant…