Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced that a groundbreaking event was held today for Bayer AG’s (Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayer.com) first-of-a-kind cell culture technology center in Berkeley, California. Fluor is providing a single point of responsibility for engineering, procurement, construction management…
ExxonMobil (Irving, Texas; www.exxonmobil.com) said today it has completed an expansion of its specialty elastomers manufacturing plant in Newport, Wales, which doubles the plant’s manufacturing capacity and increases global manufacturing capacity of Santoprene thermoplastic elastomers by 25 percent. “ExxonMobil’s…
The global chemical company Oxea (Monheim am Rhein, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com) successfully completed a debottleneck of its existing isononanoic acid production units in Oberhausen, Germany. The company will use the additional production capacity to support the growth of the global synthetic…
Honeywell announced today that Venture Global LNG, Inc. will use a series of technologies from Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) to remove various contaminants from natural gas prior to liquefaction at its Calcasieu Pass liquefied natural gas (LNG) export…
Archroma (Reinach, Switzerland; www.archroma.com), a global leader in color and specialty chemicals towards sustainable solutions, has officially inaugurated its new Global Competence Center for Automotive & Synthetic Dyeing in Korschenbroich, Germany. The site is part of former M. Dohmen, an…
Royal DSM (Heerlen, the Netherlands: www.dsm.com) has reached agreement with SRF Ltd., to acquire its Engineering Plastics business, a leading player in India in the development, production and sale of specialty materials. The acquisition is expected to close in Q3…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Lactips (Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds, France; www.lactips.com) signed an exclusive contract to market Lactips’ water-soluble, bio-based and fully biodegradable material. This long-term partnership supports BASF’s strategy to leverage sustainable solutions to drive business growth. BASF and Lactips…
Bayer AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayer.com) announced today it will invest $150 million in its Berkeley, Calif. pharmaceutical development and manufacturing site to build a Cell Culture Technology Center that will be used to accelerate the development of biological therapies. Once…
Perstorp AB (Perstorp, Sweden; www.perstorp.com), a global leader in the specialty chemicals market, has announced a decision to construct a new plant in Perstorp, Sweden. The plant will increase capacity for Pergrip Run NF, the sodium formate deicer product for…
Dover Corp. (Downers Grove, Ill.; www.dovercorporation.com) has completed the acquisition of the All-Flo Pump Company, Limited business (All-Flo; Mentor, Ohio), which is now part of the Pump Solutions Group (PSG; www.psgdover.com) unit within Dover’s Fluids segment. Founded in 1986, All-Flo…