Honeywell (Morristown, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Seelze, Germany-based laboratory research chemicals business from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, Mo.; www.sigma-aldrich.com) for approximately €105 million. The acquired Sigma-Aldrich business develops and manufactures high-purity research chemicals and other materials…
Total S.A. (Paris; www.total.com) has selected Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) process technology, Vegan, for its first biorefinery, to be located at La Mède (France). The plant will produce 500,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of high-quality paraffinic biodiesel, treating primarily…
ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com), the plant engineering and construction specialist of the ThyssenKrupp Group, has received an order to build a cement clinker production line from Cementos Argos, the biggest cement producer in Colombia and one…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) has been awarded by Tecnicas Reunidas a significant contract to supply three hydrogen reformers as part of the hydrogen production facility at Petronas’ Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) project located in the state of…
Compass Minerals (Overland Park, Kan.; www.compassminerals.com) has selected Veolia Water Technologies (Moon Township, Pa.; www.veoliawaterstna.com) to provide the HPD Crystallization equipment necessary to expand production of its potassium sulfate product at its facility near Ogden, Utah, in the U.S. The…
Air Liquide’s (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed a new contract with ITER-India for the design and manufacturing of 19 cryogenic lines for the ITER project. This latest contract comes after two earlier ones, signed in 2012 and in 2013, bringing the…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Te.; www.fluor.com) announced that Fluor Ltd., its U.K. operation, was selected by Cytec Industries Inc. for the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) of the expansion of its high-performance adhesives manufacturing facility in Wrexham, North Wales. Fluor…
Badlands NGLs, LLC (Denver, Colo.; www.badlandsngls.com) and Univation Technologies, LLC (Houston; www.univation.com), a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) announced that Badlands has licensed Univation Technologies’ Unipol PE Process for four polyethylene (PE) reactor lines, representing…
Maag Pump Systems AG (Oberglatt, Switzerland; www.maag.com) has agreed to acquire Gala Industries, Inc. (Eagle Rock, Va.; www.gala-industries.com). Gala is a leading manufacturer of underwater pelletizing systems, centrifugal pellet dryers and process solutions for the plastics industry. The addition…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) has officially started up a new reactor for vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions at its Calvert City site in Kentucky. By expanding its capacities, Wacker is meeting global demand for its dispersions and…