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Chemours acquires Southern Ionics Minerals

The Chemours Co. (Wilmington, Del.; www.chemours.com) announced the acquisition of Southern Ionics Minerals, LLC (SIM), a minerals exploration, mining, and manufacturing company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. SIM was a wholly owned subsidiary of Southern Ionics Incorporated (SII), a privately held…

One of the world’s biggest cement producers chooses laboratory automation from thyssenkrupp

The Chinese company Anhui Conch Cement is one of the world’s biggest cement producers. China alone accounted for around 2.2 billion tons, or about 56%, of total world cement production in 2018. Anhui Conch Cement recently placed an order with…

Koch-Glitsch acquires mass-transfer specialist Julius Montz

Koch-Glitsch (Wichita, Kan.; www.koch-glitsch.com), a subsidiary of Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) and its parent company Koch Industries, announced the acquisition of Julius Montz GmbH from the Pfaudler Group. This acquisition will increase Koch-Glitsch's presence worldwide by strengthening its global footprint, broadening…

Linde starts up gas-production plant at Evonik’s methionine complex in Singapore

Linde (Guildford, U.K.; www.linde.com) announced that it has started up a new gas production facility supplying methane, hydrogen and carbon dioxide to Evonik Industries' second world-scale methionine complex on Jurong Island in Singapore. The new plant complements an existing facility…

Roehm to continue as an independent company

Today, Röhm GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany; www.roehm.com) successfully completed the carve-out from Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com). Evonik Industries’ Methacrylate Verbund is thus transferred to its new owner, Advent International GmbH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.adventinternational.com), as an independent company.…

Fluor wins FEED contract for Ineos’ new VAM processing plant

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded the front-end engineering and design (FEED) for INEOS’ new processing plant at the Saltend Chemicals Park in Hull, UK. The plant will produce vinyl acetate monomer, (VAM) a key component for laminated wind…

Emerson opens industrial cybersecurity hub in India

Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com) opened its newest cybersecurity lab to help manufacturers confidently adopt digital transformation strategies, while protecting the integrity of their plant operations, networks, systems and data. The facility, part of Emerson’s larger global cybersecurity network, reinforces…

Covestro, Vopak and Mitsubishi among new investors in liquid organic hydrogen carrier technology

Royal Vopak (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.vopak.com), Mitsubishi Corp., Covestro AG and AP Ventures have invested Euro 17 million into Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies GmbH and its Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier (LOHC) technology for hydrogen logistics. Storing hydrogen, using dibenzyltoluene as the Liquid Organic…

Fluor awarded EPCM contract for copper and silver project in Botswana

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract by Cupric Canyon Capital for its Khoemacau copper and silver project in northwest Botswana. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract value in the second quarter of…

Linde starts up high-purity nitrogen supply at Shanghai EverDisplay

Linde (www.linde.com) announced that it has started up its new air separation plants to supply a combined 720 tons per day of high-purity nitrogen to Shanghai EverDisplay Optronics Co., Ltd. (EDO) supporting its sixth-generation AMOLED project. Under the terms of…