Ineos Technologies Ltd. (Runcorn, U.K.; www.ineostechnologies.com) has licensed its Innovene S Process for the manufacture of high- and medium-density polyethylene (HDPE and MDPE) to China Petrochemical International Company Ltd. for use at Sinopec Wuhan Co. in Wuhan, China. The 300,000…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that its Houston-headquartered subsidiary, Foster Wheeler USA Corp. (FWUSA), part of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, has been awarded the full Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCm) services contract from BP…
F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. (Roche; Basel, Switzerland; www.rochemengonline.com) and Genentech, Inc. (San Francisco, Calif.; www.genentech.com) announced today that they signed a merger agreement under which Roche will acquire the outstanding publicly held interest in Genentech for $95.00 per share in…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced that subsidiaries in its Global Engineering and Construction Group, Foster Wheeler Energy Limited and Foster Wheeler (G.B.) Limited, have been awarded a contract by Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) for a grassroots petroleum…
SolVin (www.solvinpvc.com), a joint venture of Solvay S.A.(Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com), announces the successful startup of new production capacity for Diofan polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC) latex at its Tavaux, France, plant. Diofan PVDC latex is a…
Dow Europe GmbH (Horgen, Switzerland; www.dow.com) announced today the start up of a new Solution Styrene Butadiene Rubber (SSBR) plant in Schkopau, Germany. The new facility includes a capacity rights agreement with JSR Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.jsr.co.jp). Dow owns and…
Process Systems Enterprise (PSE; London, England; www.psenterprise.com), providers of the gPROMS advanced process modeling system and related services to the process industries, and Hyperion Systems Engineering Ltd. (Nicosia, Cyprus; www.hyperion.com.cy) the leading independent simulation-solutions supplier, today announced the appointment of…
LyondellBasell Industries (Rotterdam, Netherlands; www. Lyondellbasell.com), a partner with SAT &Co. and KMGEP of Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries Ltd. (KPI), today reaffirmed its ongoing participation in the development and construction, of an integrated petrochemical complex and a gas separation unit (GSU)…
Hoerbiger Holding AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.hoerbiger.com) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% ownership of Tritech Compression, Inc. (Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada). Effective, March 2, 2009, the oil field equipment supply and maintenance service company will operate as business…
The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) announced today that the world’s largest commercial-scale propylene oxide (PO) plant and the first based on the innovative hydrogen peroxide to propylene oxide (HPPO) technology jointly developed by BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com)…