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…
Solar thermal power The first solar-thermal power plant in Southeast Asia fed its full output of 5 MW into Thailand’s public grid for the first time late January. The facility — designed and built by Solarite GmbH (Duckwitz, Germany; www.solarlite.de)…
Researchers from the Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Monash University (Clayton, Victoria, Australia; www.monash.edu), have reported on a new composite polymer hydrogel with light-absorbing particles incorporated within it, that can be used as draw agents in the forward osmosis (FO) process…
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…
Heliatek GmbH (Dresden, Germany; www.heliatek.com), a global leader in high-end solar photovoltaic (PV) technology, has signed a joint development agreement with Reckli GmbH (Herne, Germany; www.reckli.de), a world leader in the manufacture of elastic molds for concrete building facades. This…