In addition to its production capacity of about 10,000 metric tons/year (m.t./yr) out of the Cassano, Italy Biosuccinium plant, Reverdia (Geleen, the Netherlands; www.reverdia.com) has announced at the European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology (EFIB) that it is now licensing Biosuccinium. …
The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) has signed a definitive agreement with ExxonMobil Chemical Co. (Houston; www.exxonmobilchemical.com) regarding an ownership restructure of Univation Technologies, LLC. Currently a 50/50 joint venture (JV), Univation Technologies is the licensor of Unipol Polyethylene…
Nippon Shokubai Co. (Osaka, Japan; www.shokubai.co.jp) has decided to build a new production plant for superabsorbent polymers (SAP) at its existing Himeji plant site. The new plant will have an annual capacity of 50,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr). The…
ABB’s (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) Measurement Products business announced that its laboratory in Germany has received accreditation for independent testing and calibration of gas analyzers. Accreditation was awarded by the German Accreditation Service (DAkkS) in Berlin/Braunschweig. The laboratory in Frankfurt Praunheim…
Ineos Technologies (Rolle, Switzerland; www.ineos.com) has announced that it has entered into license agreements for its Innovene S and Innovene G polyethylene technologies to be used by the proposed Ascent (Appalachian Shale Cracker Enterprise) petrochemical complex currently being evaluated by…
Hexcel Corp. (Stamford, Conn.; www.hexcel.com) has announced that it will expand its carbon fiber production capacity through the addition of new precursor and carbon fiber lines in Roussillon, France. The $250-million investment will also include the associated quality control laboratories…
Velocys plc (Plain City, Ohio; www.velocys.com) has raised £52 ($85) million (excluding expenses) for its work in the area of smaller scale gas-to-liquids (GTL). The funds were raised through an oversubscribed equity placing, priced at a slight premium to the…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) says that its joint venture (JV) with AMEC and Balfour Beatty has been selected by Sellafield Ltd. to deliver its Box Encapsulation Plant (BEP) project in West Cumbria, U.K. Sellafield officials noted that…
After having worked together for years across the globe, GEA Process Engineering (Søborg, Denmark; www.gep.com) announces the acquisition of Scan-Vibro A/S from Svendborg in Denmark. The acquisition is a perfect match and the plan is to further grow and develop…
Mitsui Chemicals Inc.’s (MCI; Tokyo; www.mitsuichem.com) wholly owned subsidiary Taiwan Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. has signed an exclusive license agreement with Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan (ITRI), allowing it to manufacture and distribute ITRI’s STOBA (self-terminated oligomers with hyper-branched architecture)…