BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will continue to invest in its coatings site in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province in South China, by constructing a new facility for automotive refinish coatings that will start production in the first half of 2022. “Guangdong…
Honeywell announced today that Shandong Binhua New Material Co., Ltd. will use Honeywell UOP’s (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) C3 Oleflex technology to produce 600,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of polymer-grade propylene for a proposed plant in China. Honeywell UOP…
SIBUR (Moscow, Russia; www.sibur.ru) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) formalizing their partnership on the sustainable development and circular economy agenda further to the companies’ environmental talks held back in June this year. The memorandum…
SLM Solutions Group AG (Lübeck, Germany; www.slm-solutions.com) is working with Honeywell, a leading user of additive manufacturing technologies with extensive knowledge across various platforms and applications, to help qualify new additive manufacturing parameters that enable printing at increased thicknesses. The…
Indorama Ventures Public Co. Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indoramaventures.com), through its indirect subsidiary Indorama Ventures Holdings LP, signed a definitive Share Purchase Agreement with LQ Inc. to acquire 100% equity stake of Green Fiber International Inc. (GFI), a company that…
Nissan Chemical Corp. (Tokyo; www.nissanchem.co.jp) announces the acquisition of the Quinoxyfen product line of fungicides from Corteva, Inc. This transaction includes all brands, including Quintec and FortressTM and associated inventories. Quinoxyfen is a protectant fungicide highly effective in controlling powdery…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has secured a contract for its ammonia synthesis technology from Wuhuan Engineering Co., Ltd., a leading Chinese EPC Contractor, for the Talcher fertilizer unit as part of a benchmark coal-to-urea project in India. Under the…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that Ceyhan Polipropilen Uretim A.Ş, a joint venture between Rönesans Holding and Sonatrach S.p.A., has selected LyondellBasell’s Spheripol technology for a polypropylene (PP) unit to be constructed in Ceyhan, Turkey. The new plant will…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) plans to increase its capacity for sodium methylate at its Rosario/Santa Fe facility in Argentina from 60,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) up to 90,000 m.t./yr until 2021. The expansion is driven by growing…
Chemical compatibility charts are often used as a quick and concise way to match the proper fluid with a seal. However, there is much more to consider with the chemical compatibility of a seal in relation to the fluids in…