Borealis (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) announced the inauguration of a Є15 million investment project in mtm plastics GmbH. Based in Niedergebra, Germany, mtm plastics GmbH is regarded as a technology leader in the recycling of mixed post-consumer plastic waste and as…
DuPont Safety & Construction, a business unit of DowDuPont’s (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) Specialty Products Division, announced plans to invest more than $400 million to expand capacity for the manufacture of Tyvek nonwoven materials at its facility in Luxembourg. The production…
Engineering and technology company Sener (www.engineeringandconstruction.sener) is putting into operation, on a multi-phase basis, the different components of the Noor Ouarzazate (Morocco) III solar thermal power plant. This plant is the second plant designed and built by Sener using its…
Dürr AG (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany; www.durr.com) is forming a leading supplier of environmental technology systems for industrial exhaust-air purification, following a corporate acquisition in the United States. The Group is acquiring the industrial environmental technology business of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises,…
Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.hitachi-chem.co.jp) and Wisconsin-based Silatronix, Inc. have entered into a licensing agreement concerning the manufacturing, sales and use of Silatronix’s patented organosilicon compounds for use as electrolyte materials. By combining electrolyte using Silatronix’s organosilicon compounds…
INEOS (Rolle, Switzerland; www.ineos.com) announces that it has launched a feasibility study as it plans to build a new world-scale Ethylidene norbornene (ENB) production unit. This would represent a second ENB asset for INEOS joining the existing production unit in…
Bayport Polymers LLC (Bay-Pol), a joint venture of Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) and Novealis Holdings LLC – a joint venture of Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) and NOVA Chemicals Inc. (Calgary, Canada; www.novachem.com) – held the official groundbreaking ceremony…
Teijin Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.teijin.com) recently celebrated the groundbreaking of a new carbon-fiber production facility of its wholly-owned subsidiary Teijin Carbon Fibers, Inc. (TCF). The ceremony was held on June 1 at TCF site in Greenwood, South Carolina. “We look…
Toyo Engineering Group (Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been awarded a construction project by PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk (CAP), Indonesia's largest petrochemical company, and its subsidiary PT Petrokimia Butadiene Indonesia (PBI). This project involves the construction of Butene-1 production unit…
Hexcel Corp. (Stamford, Conn.; www.hexcel.com) has formed a joint venture with Chinese aerospace parts manufacturer Future Aerospace to establish a materials testing lab in China. Shanghai Future Aerospace Hexcel Commercial Composite Testing Ltd. will be located in Lingang and will…