The former AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals is being relaunched as Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.nouryon.com). The move follows the recent acquisition of the business by The Carlyle Group and GIC and marks the company’s transition to becoming an independent, global specialty…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) received an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract from Sirius Minerals PLC for its new materials handling facility (MHF) in Teesside, England. The MHF is being constructed as part of the company's North…
JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.com) has been awarded a lumpsum contract from Denka Seiken Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Denka Co., Ltd., for the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of an influenza vaccination materials manufacturing plant and related facilities planned…
Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) and Sonatrach (Algiers, Algeria; www.sonatrach.com) have signed a shareholder agreement to create a joint venture known as STEP (Sonatrach Total Entreprise Polymères). STEP will be responsible for carrying out a joint petrochemical project in Arzew,…
Wison Engineering Services Co. Ltd. (Shanghai; www.wison-engineering.com) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Wison Engineering Ltd. (Saudi Branch) has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract, worth approximately $150 million, with Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) for a Utilities…
Shell Chemical Appalachia LLC (Houston, www.shell.us) today announced the successful installation of its quench tower – the largest piece of equipment at its Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex, currently under construction. The heavy lift of the quench tower, undertaken October 7, marked…
Perstorp (Malmö, Sweden; www.perstorp.com) announced that it will substantially expand the production capacity of its non-phthalate polyester plasticizer Pevalen in 2019. To accomplish this Perstorp has entered into a long-term production agreement with Italian company Alcoplast Srl. The new partnership…
Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.covestro.com) accelerates its investment activities to capitalize on the strong methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) market growth. Today, the Supervisory Board of Covestro has approved an investment of around €1.5 billion to build a new world-scale MDI…
Dürr Systems AG (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany; www.durr.com) has completed the previously announced acquisition of the industrial environmental technology business of the U.S. company, Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. (B&W; Barberton, Ohio; www.babcock.com) as of October, 5th, 2018. The transaction creates one…
Amin H. Nasser, president and CEO of Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.saudiaramco.com) and Patrick Pouyanné, chairman and CEO of Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com), signed today in Dhahran the joint development agreement for the front-end engineering and design (FEED)…