Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com) announced it has agreed to acquire U.K.-based Permasense Ltd., a leading provider of non-intrusive corrosion monitoring technologies for the offshore and onshore oil production, refining, chemical, power, pipelines, metals and mining and other industries. Permasense…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) held a groundbreaking ceremony today for the expansion of its Austrian site in Schörfling, where the group will build another operations complex for producing gas separation membrane modules of its Sepuran brand. In addition…
Ube Industries, Ltd. (Ube; Tokyo, Japan; www.ube-ind.co.jp) has decided to expand its production capacity for lithium-ion battery separators at the Sakai Factory in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, in order to meet growing demand for lithium-ion batteries used in automobiles. The…
Global Bioenergies and Clariant are proud to announce the first isobutene production from a wheat straw hydrolysate, in the industrial pilot of Pomacle Bazancourt. This success is the result of a collaboration initiated more than 18 months ago, and has…
Novamont (Novara, Italy; www.novamont.com), the Italy-based world leader in bioplastics, with 1,000 patents in biopolymers and biochemicals, announced they have opened the world’s first commercial-scale facility for the bio-based production of a major intermediate chemical, in Bottrighe (Adria), North East…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) was awarded a contract from Vastly (formerly Tranlin, Inc.) to lead permit acquisition and provide design services for its new $2-billion manufacturing plant in Chesterfield, Virginia. The plant represents Vastly’s first investment in…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) celebrated the opening of a new complex for the manufacturing of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) located at the BASF site in Shanghai, China. The new plant will produce PVP K30 powder, a polymer used as a base for…
Nuberg Engineering Ltd. (Noida, India; www.nuberg.in) received a contract for a calcium chloride plant project on EPC & LSTK basis in Port Said, Egypt from TCI Sanmar Chemicals S.A.E. TCI Sanmar is a part of the multinational conglomerate, The Sanmar…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is building a world-scale production plant for acetylene at its Ludwigshafen site. The plant will start up at the end of 2019 and replace the existing plant. The new facility will have the capacity to…
Microdyn-Nadir GmbH (Wiesbaden, Germany; www.microdyn-nadir.com) has announced the acquisition of specialty membrane company TriSep Corp (Goleta, Calif.). TriSep has profound experience and expertise in the area of reverse osmosis and nanofiltration and has built a strong reputation for successfully customizing…