Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Dusseldorf, Germany; www.henkel.com) has opened its Innovation and Interaction Center (IIC) for 3D Printing at its Tallaght site near Dublin, Ireland. The IIC, which is the first in a new generation of global industrial customer…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced that it has been awarded a contract to expand capacity for the manufacture of Tyvek nonwoven materials by DuPont Safety & Construction at its facility in Contern, Luxembourg. Under the terms of the reimbursable contract,…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that Hyosung Vietnam Corp. Ltd., has selected Spheripol polypropylene (PP) process technology for a 300,000 metric tons per year plant in Vietnam. “The Spheripol process is the most widely used polypropylene technology in the…
BP plc (London; www.bp.com) and Xin Feng Ming Group Co., Ltd. entered an agreement to license BP’s latest generation purified terephthalic acid (PTA) technology to Dushan Energy Ltd., a subsidiary of Xinfengming. BP and Xinfengming also signed a memorandum of…
PolyMirae Company Ltd., a a 50/50 joint venture between LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasel.com) and Daelim Industrial (www.daelimchem.co.kr), announced that it would establish a joint venture with SK Advanced in South Korea. The new company will be a joint venture…
W.R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.; www.grace.com) has granted a license that allows PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk. (CAP) to expand its existing UNIPOL PP (polypropylene) plant. The world-scale capacity of this UNIPOL PP facility, located in Ciwandan, Indonesia, will be…
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.the-linde-group.com) and Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) have concluded an exclusive cooperation agreement on the use of membranes for natural gas processing. The two companies will jointly promote membrane technology – Evonik on the…
Bio-on (Bologna, Italy; www.bio-on.it) has inaugurated its first plant designed to produce 100% natural and biodegradable special polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) bioplastics for high added-value niche markets, such as the microbeads used in the cosmetics sector. "We are extremely proud," explains Bio-on…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) opened their new facilities based in Clinton, Oklahoma serving the company's Oil Services group. The site, for which Clariant has made a significant investment, is a strategic location to support the growing oil and gas industry…
Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) has entered into an agreement to acquire Austin, Texas-based Austemper Design Systems Inc., a startup software company that offers analysis, auto-correction and simulation technology. This technology allows customers to test and harden IC designs for…