The Lubrizol Corp.’s (Wickliffe, Ohio; www.lubrizol.com) Performance Coatings business announced the addition of new hyperdispersant capacity at its Huddersfield, U.K. facility. The new capacity will be used for the manufacture of Solsperse hyperdispersants, additives that improve pigment dispersion in demanding…
Henkel AG & Co. (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.henkel.com) signed an agreement to acquire Novamelt GmbH, a privately owned company based in Wehr, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With this transaction Henkel will further enhance its competence in the area of hotmelt adhesives. In fiscal…
Celanese Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.celanese.com) and Mitsui & Co. entered into an exclusive arrangement to explore a joint venture (JV) for methanol production at Celanese’s integrated chemical plant in Bishop, Tex. The potential methanol unit at Bishop is expected to…
The Coating Resins business of Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) has expanded acrylic resin manufacturing capacity in Araçariguama, Brazil by 60%. The new reactor will enable manufacturing of Arkema’s product chemistries previously unavailable in the region. With the startup of the…
Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) has selected Molycorp Inc. (Greenwood Village, Colo.; www.molycorp.com) to supply rare-earth materials over the next 10 years from its Mountain Pass, Calif. facility for incorporation into Siemens' high-efficiency, direct drive wind turbine generators. Molycorp will…
Kobe Steel, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.kobelco.co.jp) announces that its intermediate fluid LNG vaporizers (IFVs) will be used in the regasification facility for the Delimara LNG Regasification Terminal under construction in Malta. Kobe Steel will supply two IFVs. Each unit…
Plant engineering and construction specialist ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) has been awarded a contract for the basic engineering package and license for a hard-paraffin production facility in Czechowice-Dziedzice, Poland, located about 80 km south of Katowice. The…
The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) announced today that its subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG), and international wear solutions supplier Magotteaux (Vaux-Sous-Chevremont, Belgium; www.magotteaux.com) have formed a strategic alliance to enable B&W…
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company Inc., Mitsubishi Corp. (MC) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; all Tokyo, Japan; (MGC; www.mhi-global.com) have signed an agreement with state-owned National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd. (NGC) and Massy Holdings Ltd. (Massy) for the…
The composite leading indicator (CLI) for February from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD; Paris; www.oecd.org) suggests “strengthening growth momentum in the Euro area,” according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report from the American Chemistry Council…