The NSF International (Ann Arbor, Mich.; www.nsf.org) joint committee of stakeholders that maintains the American National Standards for drinking water treatment and reverse osmosis (RO) devices recently updated two standards to include test methods and other requirements for the reduction…
The Chemical Activity Barometer (CAB), a leading economic indicator created by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), rose 0.4 percent in May on a three-month moving average (3MMA) basis, the third monthly gain after several weak months. On…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) plans to build an engineering plastics compounding plant and a thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) plant at the company’s proposed integrated chemical production (“Verbund”) site in Zhanjiang, China. These will be the first production plants to come…
Recently, Mexican steel producer Altos Hornos de Mexico, S.A.B. de C.V. (AHMSA) issued the Final Acceptance Certificate (FAC) for a twin Ruhrstahl Heraeus (RH) vacuum degassing plant supplied by Primetals Technologies, Ltd. (London, U.K.; www.primetals.com). The 150-ton RH plant was…
Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) has opened a new service center in Brisbane, Australia, on May 14th, 2019. The new facility is ideally located to support thyssenkrupp’s customer base on the East Coast of Australia as well as…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has commissioned a new test bench for additivated hydraulic fluids into operation at its facility in Mannheim, Germany. It is being used to test the additive package Additin RC 9200 N, as well as other…
American Battery Solutions, Inc. (ABS; Lake Orion, Mich.; www.absbattery.com), an advanced battery systems company, announced its emergence from stealth-mode today with engineering, testing and manufacturing services enabled by an agreement to acquire of high-voltage manufacturing and testing assets from Robert…
U.S. production of major plastic resins totaled 7.5 billion pounds during March 2019, a decrease of 0.3 percent compared to the same month in 2018, according to statistics released today by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com).…
Hyundai Chemical Company, Ltd. (Daesan, South Korea; www.hyundaicorp.com/en/business/chemical) has chosen Univation Technologies’ (Houston; www.univation.com) UNIPOL PE Technology for a 300 kTA (kilotons per year) high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plant to be located at Hyundai’s site in Daesan, Republic of Korea.…
As part of its five-year investment to boost capacity and operational excellence within its global plastics additives business, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has awarded Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com) a multi-million dollar contract to modernize automation software and…