Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is currently building a new plant for specialty monomers with an annual capacity of 3,800 metric tons (m.t.) at its Burghausen, Germany site. The Group has budgeted around €8 million for this. The specialty…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has signed a global license agreement with polymer technology company Revolymer Ltd. (Flintshire, U.K.; www.revolymer.com) to exclusively apply its encapsulation technology to boost the performance of Solvay’s organic peroxide Eureco, which is used in detergents and…
Wood Group Mustang’s (Houston; www.mustangeng.com) Automation and Control business unit is providing process control systems detailed engineering, procurement and fabrication services for the multi-billion dollar expansion project by ExxonMobil Chemical Co. (Houston; www.exxonmobilchemical.com) at the Baytown and Mont Belvieu plants…
Specialty chemical maker Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) today announced the completion of the sale of its Business Line Energy Storage to Johnson Matthey Plc, which was announced on October 29th,2014. The sale was closed on February 28th 2015. “The divestment…
AkzoNobel’s (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) Specialty Chemicals business recently broke ground on a new alkoxylation facility in Ningbo, China, bringing the company’s total investment in the strategic multi-site to more than €400 million. As well as contributing to AkzoNobel’s position…
Bayer MaterialScience (Leverkusen, Germany; materialscience.bayer.com) has concluded the takeover of Thermoplast Composite GmbH (TCG; Langenfeld, Germany; thermoplast-composite.com), a technology leader specializing in the production of thermoplastic fiber composites. Bayer MaterialScience will use the acquisition to expand its range of products…
Aveva (Cambridge, U.K.; www.aveva.com) says it has collaborated with EMC Corp.’s Enterprise Content Division to deliver an integrated software solution for the management and control of engineering data and associated documents. Designed for the specific needs of owner operators (OOs)…
The Global Chemical Production Regional Index (Global CPRI) rose in January on a three-month-moving-average basis, as did the U.S. CPRI, the American Chemical Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) said in its latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report. ACC’s Global CPRI…
Becht Engineering Co. (Liberty Corner, N.J.; www.becht.com) has announced that it has acquired The Cecon Group (Wilmington, Del.). Terms of the transaction were not announced. Becht Engineering provides engineering consulting services to the energy sector, including oil-and-gas production, refining, petrochemical,…
Victrex plc (Thornton Cleveleys, U.K.; www.victrex.com), a leader in high-performance polyaryletherketone (PAEK) polymers is planning to increase its global technology leadership with the construction of a major Polymer Innovation Center in northern England. Financial assistance for the project has come…