Clariant (Muttez, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) performed the groundbreaking ceremony of a new manufacturing plant in Cuddalore, for moisture-control products, intended for the pharma industry. In December 2015, Clariant had announced plans to invest CHF 10 million in this Healthcare Packaging plant,…
M&G Chemicals (Ettelbruck , Luxembourg; www.mg-chemicals.com) plans to increase the capacity of its Corpus Christi, Tex. facility by over 100,000 metric tons (m.t.) of integrated polyethylene terephthalate (PET), reaching the total amount of at least 1,100,00 m.t. of PET. Purified…
Amec Foster Wheeler (London, U.K.; www.amecfw.com) announces today the award of a contract to provide project development support and design engineering for an integrated 80,000 metric ton per year anhydrous ammonia production plant and electric power cogeneration facility, through…
Air Products’ (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) PRISM Membranes division in Saint Louis, Missouri, has received PED (Pressure Equipment Directive) certification for two new sizes of membrane separators for biogas upgrading applications. This certification, from DNV GL Business Assurance Italia…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) today announced that GE Aviation (www.ge.com/aviation) and Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc. (www.praxairsurfacetechnologies.com), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Praxair, Inc., have entered into a definitive agreement to form a joint venture (JV) for the development, support…
Today, Novozymes (Copenhagen, Denmark; www.novozymes.com) announced it has separated its biopharma activities into an independent company called Albumedix. The new company will be fully owned by Novozymes.“Over the past nine years, our work in albumin has resulted in a series…
Akzo Nobel N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has strengthened its position in the North American hydrogen peroxide market after acquiring the outstanding shares in EkO Peroxide LLC from joint venture partner OCI Peroxygens LLC (a subsidiary of OCI Enterprises Inc.).…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) has been awarded a contract by Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery Co. to develop an extensive propane and butane dehydrogenation unit in cooperation with CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com). The project includes the license and engineering…
The Wacker Group (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) has expanded its production capacity for functional silicone fluids at its Burghausen site. With the new expansion stage, which came on stream in early January, Wacker is meeting the rising global demand for specialty…
Industrial production of chemicals in the U.S. fell by 0.5% in December, reversing a string of gains, according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). Production of pharmaceuticals was off…