Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) announced that Airgas has signed a definitive agreement to acquire TA Corporate Holdings, Inc. (Tech Air), a large independent distributor of industrial gases and welding supplies serving various geographies in the United States. This transaction,…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced that it has been awarded a contract by SATORP (a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Total) to debottleneck Train 2 of its existing 440,000 barrels per day refinery in Jubail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia…
Univation Technologies, LLC (Houston; www.univation.com) has signed an agreement to license UNIPOL PE Technology to LG Chem., Ltd. (LGC) for two polyethylene plants to be built at LG Chem’s petrochemical site in Yeosu, Korea. Each plant’s nameplate capacity will be…
Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.saudiaramco.com) with its partner Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Daelim (Seoul, South Korea; www.daelim.co.kr/). Under the MoU, Daelim is planning to build a new 80,000-ton…
Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (CUSA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Chevron Corp. (San Ramon, Calif.; www.chevron.com), announced that it has signed a Share Purchase Agreement with Petrobras America Inc. (Petrobras) to acquire all the outstanding shares and equity interests of Pasadena…
Invista (Wichita, Kan.; www.invista.com) has completed the previously announced sale of its Apparel & Advanced Textiles business to an affiliate of Shandong Ruyi Investment Holding.The transaction includes: The Apparel & Advanced Textiles business’s portfolio of apparel-focused fibers and brands, including…
The Phoenix PLCnext Control RFC 4072S controller (photo) is the first high-performance controller for this company’s PLCnext Technology ecosystem. It can be used to leverage all the advantages of the control platform: programming in users’ preferred programming language and programming…
DM 9600 Series precision manometers feature a color touchscreen and are designed with technicians in mind to provide data quickly and easily for startup, troubleshooting and reporting jobs for measuring pressure, temperature, flow and other parameters. Five different ranges are…
This company has developed a line of sanitary processors (photo) that offer proprietary continuous-mixing technology in a sanitary design approved and certified by the USDA. The continuous processors feature solid, one-piece, removable, rotating shafts that cannot harbor material, with removable…
This company has extended its Purate technology for chlorine dioxide (ClO2) biocides with a new product line that is specifically tailored for small to medium water systems and industrial cooling systems. The new platform includes Purate chemistry and patented generator…