Cabot Corp. (Boston, Mass.; www.cabot-corp.com) announced that it has completed its acquisition of the equity stake owned by Grupo Kuo S.A.B. de C.V. in its Mexican carbon-black manufacturing joint venture (JV), NHUMO, S.A.de C.V. NHUMO is the leading carbon-black producer in Mexico,…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has signed a contract with ArcelorMittal to supply three Prism PHG100 hydrogen-gas generators (PHG) and a high-purity Prism GN700 nitrogen generator for its Saint Chély d'Apcher plant in Southern France. The plant is now…
GE (www.ge.com) and Carbon Holdings today signed a US$500 million agreement to provide technology and equity support to the greenfield naphtha cracker and olefins complex project of Tahrir Petrochemicals in Ain Sokhna, Egypt. As part of the partnership, GE will…
Novozymes (Copenhagen, Denmark; www.novozymes.com) has announced that it will supply enzyme technology to the world’s first biomass to glycols biorefinery to be constructed by M&G Chemicals in China. The bio-refinery will be located in Anhui province, close to Fuyang in…
Specialty chemicals company Lanxess (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has completed the expansion of its cresol production plant in Leverkusen, Germany, and has now begun operating a newly constructed reaction system as well as a second distillation column. The expansion increases capacity…
Evonik Industries (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is significantly expanding its global isophorone (IP) and isophorone diamine (IPD) capacities by funding an investment of more than €100 million in Shanghai, China. The new production plants will be completed in the first quarter…
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Paris; www.oecd.org) released its composite leading indicator (CLI) for September and, according to the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), the data signal improvements in growth in most major OECD countries…
Airgas, Inc. (Radnor, Pa.; www.airgas.com) has announced that the Prologis International Centre South in Minooka, Ill. will be the site for its new air-separation unit (ASU) in the Chicago area. Construction of the facility is scheduled to begin in February…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, CAlif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) to provide Integrated Project Management Team (IPMT) services for a new production project in Zhangjiagang City, Jiangsu Province, the People’s Republic of…
Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee, Wis.; www.rockwellautomation.com) has announced that it has agreed to purchase Jacobs Automation, a leader in intelligent-track motion-control technology. Jacobs Automation provides a motion-control solution called the iTRAK System. This technology improves performance across a wide range of…