Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.; www.trinseo.com) marked the opening of its new pilot plant and Solution-Styrene Butadiene Rubber (S-SBR) capacity expansion at Schkopau, Germany. Business leaders and dignitaries, among them Dr. Reiner Haseloff, Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt, celebrated the opening, marking an important…
BP plc (London; www.bp.com) and SOCAR Turkey Enerji A.Ş have entered into a licensing agreement for BP’s latest generation purified terephthalic acid (PTA) technology. SOCAR Turkey intends to deploy the technology in its new unit, which will have capacity to…
The engineering and technology group Sener S.A. (Las Arenas, Spain; www.engineeringandconstruction.sener) and Acciona Industrial S.A. (Madrid, Spain; www.acciona.com) have achieved the connection of the 100-MW concentrated solar power (CSP) plant to 132 kV ESKOM Distribution line on February 23, 2018.…
Veolia North America, Inc.’s (Boston, Mass.; www.veolianorthamerica.com) subsidiary Veolia Environmental Services North America, LLC was sold to Clean Harbors, Inc. (Norwell, Mass.; www.cleanharbors.com). Brown Gibbons Lang & Co.’s (BGL) Environmental & Industrial Services team served as the exclusive financial advisor…
Honeywell (Morris Plains, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) and EQUATE Petrochemical Co. K.S.C.C. (Ahmadi, Kuwait; www.equate.com) announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to further the development of innovative technologies to support operations at EQUATE's industrial complexes. EQUATE is currently the…
DowDuPont (www.dow-dupont.com) announced the corporate brand names that each of its divisions plans to assume once they are separated as independent companies as intended. While certain product names will change at separation, many products within each intended company will continue…
Norsk Hydro ASA (Oslo, Norway; www.hydro.com) has made a binding offer to acquire Rio Tinto’s 100% share in Icelandic aluminum plant ISAL. The offer also includes the Dutch anode facility Aluchemie and Swedish aluminum fluoride plant Alufluor. The transaction includes…
Primetals Technologies, Ltd. (London, U.K.; www.primetals.com) has received an order from Japanese steel producer JFE Steel Co. (JFE Steel) to supply a Meros (maximized emission reduction of sintering) off-gas cleaning system for its new sinter plant for the Fukuyama, Japan…
The American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) reported today that U.S. specialty chemicals market volumes gained 0.1 percent in January, following a 0.8 percent gain in December. All changes in the data are reported on a three-month moving average…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) will expand the capacity for Macrolex dyes at its Leverkusen site. With an investment volume of more than €5 million, the current production capacity is to be increased by 25%, which will be available from…