AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) announced an investment in major site upgrades to strengthen position in US wood coatings. This milestone multi-million-dollar investment is set to transform AkzoNobel’s wood coatings facility in High Point, North Carolina. The transformation will involve…
Eastman Chemical Company (Kingsport, Tenn.; www.eastman.com) announced that is has acquired Sasol Ltd.’s (Johannesburg, South Africa; www.sasol.co.za) Marlotherm heat-transfer fluids manufacturing assets located in Germany and related formulations, intellectual property and customer contracts. This acquisition enables Eastman to expand its…
Exxon Mobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.exxonmobil.com) has made a final investment decision on a multi-billion dollar expansion of its integrated manufacturing complex in Singapore to convert fuel oil and other bottom-of-the-barrel crude products into higher-value lube base stocks and distillates.…
At the Hannover Messe 2019 trade fair, seven leading suppliers from mechanical engineering, industrial automation and software announced the foundation of the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance. With this cooperation, the companies want to overcome proprietary solutions and give a decisive…
Air Liquide Engineering & Construction (Frankfurt, Germany; www.engineering-airliquide.com) entered into a partnership with Samsung Engineering, for the front-end engineering and design (FEED) study of a methanol production plant for Sarawak Petchem, a state-owned oil and gas firm established and owned…
Sandvik Group (Stockholm, Sweden; www.home.sandvik.com) announced that IBM is collaborating with Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology to develop IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things), advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to realize safety, maintenance, productivity and operational efficiency in the mining industry.…
Irkutsk Polymer Plant, LLC has selected Univation Technologies’ (Houston; www.univation.com) UNIPOL PE Technology for a polyethylene (PE) plant to be located in Ust-Kut, Irkutsk region, in the Russian Federation. The new plant is slated to produce 650,000 metric tons per…
GE Healthcare (Chicago; www.gehealthcare.com) and Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee, Wis.; www.rockwellautomation.com) are combining their automation, IT and single-use solution expertise to create new digital bioprocessing operations capabilities. The two companies will help biopharmaceutical manufacturers create flexible and scalable facilities, focused on…
Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corp. (SWCC) and Hyrec Technologies Ltd. (Urla/Izmir, Turkey; www.hyrec.co) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to deploy Hyrec’s Osmotically Assisted Reverse Osmosis (OARO) technology for zero-liquid-discharge desalination in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The MOU…
For the first time in a lithium extraction project, Australia leaves all process steps from ore mining and separation to refining in the country. With its comprehensive technology portfolio, GEA Group AG (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.gea.com) is supporting its customer Albemarle,…