Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark, www.topsoe.com) has signed an agreement with Increase Performance Inc. to acquire full ownership of the Furnace Manager Technology. The acquisition will be an important expansion of the technology and service offering to Topsoe’s global…
Amec Foster Wheeler (London, U.K.; www.amecfw.com) was awarded a front end engineering design (FEED) contract by Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical Company Ltd (BSR), a subsidiary of state-owned Vietnam National Oil & Gas Group (PetroVietnam), for their Dung Quat…
The board of directors of Myriant Corp. (Quincy, Mass.; www.myriant.com) an affiliate of PTT Global Chemical Public Company Limited (PTTGC), announced that Cenan Ozmeral will retire as Myriant's president and chief executive officer. Dr. Ozmeral will continue to serve as…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has begun its first production of diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI) at its wholly-owned site in Chongqing, China. Production will be ramped up gradually in line with market demand. MDI is an important component for polyurethanes –…
Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden/Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.messergroup.com) has invested 33 million euros in a new specialty gas facility in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou, in Jiangsu province. Messer will supply companies in the electronics industry, in…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Hawkins, Inc., for the distribution of BASF’s Water Solutions portfolio throughout the Midwestern U.S. Product lines included in the agreement are BASF’s Zetag, Magnafloc LT, Burst, Magnasol and Antiprex…
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) announced that it has named John L. Chrosniak, to the role of President, DuPont Sustainable Solutions effective Sept. 1, succeeding James R. (Jim) Weigand, who has been appointed chairman & CEO of the DuPont Teijin Films…
TerraVerdae BioWorks Inc. (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; www.terraverdae.com), an industrial biotechnology company developing advanced bioplastics and environmentally sustainable biomaterials, announced that it has successfully achieved key milestones for the economic, commercial production for its line of biomaterials based on polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA).…
NAES Corp. (Issaquah, Wash.; www.naes.com), a provider of maintenance and construction, engineering, and O&M services, has acquired Olsson Industrial Electric, a recognized electrical construction, engineering, and controls contractor that provides services to the power generation, renewable energy, mining, pharmaceuticals, and…
Aqua Metals, Inc. (Oakland, Calif.; www.aquametals.com), a developer of a electrochemical lead recycling technology, announced it has broken ground for construction on its new AquaRefinery commercial battery-recycling facility in McCarran, Nev. In June 2015, Aqua Metals purchased 11.7 acres at…