Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.; www.trinseo.com) plans to build a Thermoplastic Elastomers (TPE) pilot facility in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The TPE pilot facility emphasizes Trinseo’s growth strategy for TPEs globally and will serve customers in the Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Footwear and Medical markets.…
Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) and Ecoplast successfully concluded a strategic investment at their plastics recycling location in Wildon, Styria, Austria. Ecoplast processes plastic waste from both domestic and industrial consumers into top quality recyclate and now its existing production…
Valmet Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.valmet.com) will deliver biomass pretreatment system to Praj Industries Ltd. (Pune, India; www.praj.net) for their second-generation biorefinery project which is under execution in India. The delivery is planned for 2020. The order was included in Valmet’s…
The Andersons, Inc. (Maumee, Ohio; www.andersonsinc.com) announced that it and Marathon Petroleum Corp. (Findlay, Ohio; www.marathompetroleum.com) have merged four ethanol entities into the new legal entity The Andersons Marathon Holdings LLC (TAMH). The ethanol facilities involved in the merger include…
Sunfire GmbH (Dresden, Germany; www.sunfire.de) has signed a cooperation agreement with the French major energy company Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com). Sunfire will provide a megawatt-scale high temperature electrolyzer for use in industrial environments as part of the E-CO2MET research…
Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) announced that Diamond Green Diesel will expand its annual production capacity of renewable diesel using Honeywell UOP’s Ecofining process technology to meet growing demand for renewable fuels in North America and Europe. With the…
Last month, PJSC Lukoil (Moscow, Russia; www.lukoil.com) opened a new lubricants plant in the Almaty region in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The new plant has an annual output of 100,000 metric tons. The plant will produce more than 800 different…
ITM Power plc (Sheffield, U.K.; www.itm-power.com) is pleased to announce its intention to raise at least £52.0 million (before expenses) through a strategic investment of £38.0 million share by Linde UK Holdings No. 2 Limited, a member of the Linde…
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) has signed an agreement to acquire the Memcor business, including ultrafiltration and membrane biofiltration technologies, from Evoqua Water Technologies Corp. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2019, subject to customary closing conditions…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) brought a plant for manufacturing pyrogenic silica on stream at its site in Charleston, Tennessee. Representatives from the government and from business attended the ceremony. The facility has a production capacity of 13,000 metric…