AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) is to invest more than €1.3 million to build a pilot plant for coating resins at its Performance Coatings site located in Felling, UK. The state-of-the-art facility will provide resin samples for product testing and…
One of the world’s leading polymer materials suppliers has a new identity. From September 1, 2015 Bayer MaterialScience is operating under the Covestro name. The company is now legally and economically independent, but will remain a 100 percent subsidiary of…
Camfil Air Pollution Control (APC; Jonesboro, Ark.; www.camfilapc.com) , a global manufacturer of dust, mist and fume collection equipment, reports that Christian Debus has been appointed as the new executive vice president in charge of worldwide operations. He will be…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has started up new production plants for C4-based products in the Marl Chemical Park, Germany. These were formally opened today in the presence of Hannelore Kraft, Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia, and Klaus Engel,…
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…