Solvay SA (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) and Nepes (Seoul, Korea; www.nepes.co.kr) announce that their 50/50 joint venture (JV) Iridos is now (as from 2 August 2010) a fully integrated production company. Iridos was specialized in marketing and sales of pastes used in…
ITT Corp. (White Plains, N.Y.; www.itt.com) has finalized the acquisition of Godwin Pumps, as first announced on June 21, 2010. Godwin is a leading supplier of automatic self-priming portable pumps used in the growing markets for drainage pump rental, services and…
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB, Washington, D.C.; www.csb.gov) has announced that it will be conducting a full investigation into the July 22, 2010, explosion and fire that killed two workers at the Horsehead Holding Co. zinc-recycling facility located in…
Axens (Rueil Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) has signed an Asset Sale Agreement (ASA) with Canada-based Rio Tinto Alcan regarding the sale by Rio Tinto Alcan of its activated alumina business in Brockville, Ontario, Canada. “Acquisition of Rio Tinto Alcan's Brockville will…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with RB Met Engineering (Pty) Ltd. and Xstrata Merafe PSV for the delivery of chromite sintering technology to Xstrata Merafe’s ferrochrome plant located in Rustenburg in South Africa. The contract value is…
BASF Corporation's catalyst division (Iselin, N.J., www.catalysts.basf.com) has initiated several capital investment projects to enhance the company's manufacturing operations for copper-chrome catalysts at its production sites in Erie, Pa. and Elyria, Ohio. The multimillion-dollar investments are aimed at re-engineering, retrofitting…
INEOS Group (ineos.com) has today entered into a binding agreement for the sale of its Global Films business (www.ineosfilms.com) to Bilcare AG (www.bilcare.com), one of the world’s leading providers of research led packaging to the global pharmaceuticals industry, for approximately…
AdvanceBio Systems LLC (Cincinnati, Ohio) has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, Colo.) to provide a Biomass Pretreatment Reactor System for its Integrated Biorefinery Research Facility. The equipment will be…
The U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) grew in the second quarter of 2010, but the pace was the slowest in a year, according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Trends report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Arlington, Va.;…
JGC Corp. (Yokohama; www.jgc.co.jp), INPEX Corp. (Tokyo, both Japan; www.inpex.co.jp) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) have entered into an agreement to jointly carry out demonstration tests on a new technology for effectively capturing and recovering CO2 contained in natural…