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SUEZ acquires Sentinel Monitoring Systems

SUEZ - Water Technologies & Solutions completed the acquisition of Sentinel Monitoring Systems, a real-time microbial monitoring company headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. Sentinel Monitoring Systems develops products that provide real-time and near-real-time solutions to monitor the effectiveness of microbial control within life sciences ultrapure…

SK Geo Centric and PureCycle to build recycled PP plant in Ulsan

SK Geo Centric (SKGC), a subsidiary of SK Innovation (Seoul, South Korea) and  PureCycle Technologies, Inc. (Orlando, Fla.), an advanced recycling company revolutionizing plastic waste, signed a non-binding head of agreement (HOA) to open Asia’s first recycled polypropylene (PP) plant…

AGC Chemicals Americas to expand production plant in Pennsylvania

AGC Chemicals Americas Inc. (AGCCA; Exton, Pa.) announced an expansion at its Thorndale, Pennsylvania production facility that will add up to 50%  more manufacturing, quality control lab and office space. The multiuse facility will be configured to meet the growing needs…

thyssenkrupp to install 200-MW ‘green’ hydrogen facility for Shell in port of Rotterdam

Thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers GmbH, Dortmund, Germany has signed a supply contract with Shell for the large-scale project ‘Hydrogen Holland I’ in the port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Under the contract, thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers will engineer, procure and fabricate…

Thermo Fisher Scientific acquires protein manufacturer PeproTech for $1.85 billion

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, Mass.) and PeproTech, Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of recombinant proteins, today announced that Thermo Fisher completed its acquisition of PeproTech on December 30, 2021 for a total cash purchase price of approximately $1.85 billion. Based…

Ineos’ U.S. subsidiary finalizes acquisition of PE pipe manufacturer

WL Plastics Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of INEOS USA LLC d/b/a INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA, has completed the acquisition of the polyethylene pipe extrusion assets of Charter Plastics, Inc. located in Titusville, Pennsylvania. This strategic acquisition provides the…

Johnson Matthey launches new production technology for sustainable aviation fuel

Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) has launched an innovative technology –HyCOgen – designed to play a pivotal role in enabling the conversion of captured carbon dioxide (CO2) and green hydrogen into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). By combining HyCOgen with the…

Endress+Hauser bundles analysis expertise

Effective 1 January 2022, the Endress+Hauser (Reinach BL; Switzerland) subsidiaries SpectraSensors, Inc. and Kaiser Optical Systems, Inc. have joined forces to form a new company: Endress+Hauser Optical Analysis, Inc. By consolidating its expertise in the field of laser-based measurement technology,…

Clariant completes sale of Pigments business

Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland) completed the sale of its Pigments business to a consortium of Heubach Group (Heubach) and SK Capital Partners (SK Capital). As announced upon signing of the transaction, the base enterprise value of the sale amounts to…

2021 Connected Plant Conference Game Changers Award Winners

Behind the digital tools that make the industrial internet of things (IIOT) in the power generation and chemical process industries are people. The 2021 Connected Plant Conference in Austin, Texas recognized the achievements of several individuals and companies who are fast…