Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) and its customer Libbey Inc. have been awarded a 2.3 million euro LIFE grant (LIFE15 CCM/NL/000121 – LIFE OPTIMELT) from the European Commission. The LIFE program is the European Union’s financial instrument for supporting environmental,…
BASF SE’s (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) BASF Catalysts India Private Ltd. inaugurated its new mobile emissions catalysts manufacturing site. The site includes a new 47,000-square-meter production plant, which replaces an existing BASF plant in Chennai and is the culmination of a…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) announced that it has entered into exclusive negotiations with Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio; www.lincolnelectric.com), a world leader in design, development and manufacture of arc welding products, robotic arc welding systems, plasma and oxy-fuel cutting…
Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) and its Dresser-Rand business will supply two gas-turbine-driven compressor trains and two gas-turbine generator packages for the Liwa Plastics Industries Complex, a major petrochemical project in Oman. The natural gas liquids (NGL) extraction plant in…
PPG Industries, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.ppg.com) marked the completion of a new $19-million high-performance waterborne and high-solids coatings production line at its Wuhu facility in Anhui province, China. The new line enhances the production and service capabilities of PPG’s automotive…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) announced that Klaus Engel, Chairman of Evonik's Executive Board, is to hand over responsibilities to his designated successor, Christian Kullmann. Engel will be leaving the company at the end of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting…
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.henkel.com) has entered into exclusive negotiations with GCP Applied Technologies to acquire their global Darex Packaging Technologies business for $1.05 billion (around 995 million euros) on a cash and debt free basis. Henkel…
Zachry Group (San Antonio, Tex.; www.zachrygroup.com) has acquired Chicago-based Ambitech Engineering Corp., a global, full-service provider of engineering, design, project management, procurement and construction management services. Ambitech, established in 1982, has 750 employees in multiple locations across the U.S., as…
Versum Materials, Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.; www.versummaterials.com), a leading materials supplier to the semiconductor industry, announced that it would expand its manufacturing capacity at its Delivery Systems and Service (DS&S) headquarters in Allentown, Pa. To support customer demand and the growth…
On March 1, Thomas Walkenhorst took over as CEO of TÜV SÜD Chemie Service GmbH (Munich, Germany; www.tuv-sud.com), succeeding Hans-Nicolaus Rindfleisch. The new company head will be supported by the recently appointed Chief Operating Officer, Hans Joachim Machetanz (48). TÜV…