Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com) announced the retirement of Chief Operating Officer (COO) Ed Purvis after 34 years with the company. His retirement is effective December 31, 2017. Steve Pelch, currently executive vice president of organization planning and development, will…
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo; www.mitsuichem.com) announced that it plans to acquire Asahi Kasei Corp.’s business for Sunvieo thermoplastic styrene elastomer (TPS) on Dec. 1, 2017. Used primarily in the automotive industry, thermoplastic elastomers are being met with growing global demand…
CTI-Orelis (Salindres, France; www.orelis.com) has acquired the CeraMem ceramic membrane assets from Veolia Water Technologies (www.veoliawatertech.com). CTI-Orelis will immediately begin integrating the new business and developing synergies for advanced ceramic-membrane-based solutions for the oil-and-gas industry. “This is a major step…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) signed an agreement for a $3.5 billion coal-to-syngas production facility to be built in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, China. The agreement was signed in the Great Hall of the People as part of the…
Braskem (São Paulo, Brazil; www.braskem.com.br) and Haldor Topsoe A/S’s (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) have signed a technological cooperation agreement to develop a pioneering route to produce monoethylene glycol (MEG) from sugar. The agreement calls for the construction of a demonstration plant…
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan; www.toray.com) developed a new variety of regular-tow carbon and has decided to build a new carbonization facility for mass production at the company’s Mexico Plant in Jalisco, operated by its U.S. subsidiary Zoltek Companies, Inc.…
Indorama Ventures Public Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indorama.net) will acquire the assets of Artlant PTA, S.A. (Artlant), including all equipment, surface rights and employment contracts. Artlant operates a purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant in the Sines Industrial Complex in Portugal,…
DowDuPont Transportation & Advanced Polymers (www.plastics.dupont.com.), a business segment of the DowDuPont Specialty Products Division, announced that it is increasing production capacity at its Mechelen, Belgium, site to meet strong customer demand for DuPont Zytel HTN high-performance polyamide resin used in the…
Abengoa (Seville, Spain; www.abengoa.com) has received Notice to Proceed on what will be the first plant that will produce biofuels from Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in the United States with gasification technology. Prior to this, Fulcrum BioEnergy Inc., who Abengoa…
Yara International ASA (Oslo, Norway; www.yara.com) will sign a mining agreement with the Ethiopian authorities, making possible the future development of the Yara Dallol potash mine. The mining agreement will be signed at a ceremony in Addis Abeba by Ethiopian…