Within the next five years, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany ; www.basf.com) plans to invest globally more than €200 million in its plastic additives business, approximately half of which in Asia, focusing on capacity expansions and operational excellence. Plastic additives improve…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has appointed Dr. Samir J. Serhan executive vice president, leading the company’s Technology, Engineering and Manufacturing functions, excluding HyCO (hydrogen and carbon monoxide). He also will have profit and loss responsibility for the Liquefied…
The Dresser-Rand business (www.dresser-rand.com), a part of the Siemens Power and Gas Division (www.siemens.com), received an order from Air Liquide Global E&C Solutions Hangzhou Co. for an innovative compressor train to be used in an air separation plant in China.…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is increasing its production capacities for HDK pyrogenic silica. To this end, Wacker is expanding a hydrophobic silica specialties plant at its site in Burghausen, Germany. The plant’s capacity will rise by 40% as…
Saudi Aramco (Dhahran; www.saudiaramco.com) has acquired the Converge product line and associated operations and technologies from U.S.-based Novomer Inc. (Waltham, Mass.; www.novomer.com). The transaction was valued at up to $100 million. Converge is manufactured from and contains a significant portion…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) has expanded its range of services in Asia with today’s official opening of a new food laboratory at its Technical Center in Singapore. The regional competence center now has a newly created laboratory dedicated…
Ineos Technologies (Rolle, Switzerland; www.ineos.com) announced that INEOS O&P USA has acquired 100% of the shares of WLP Holding Corp., one of the largest high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipe manufacturers in North America. The business is headquartered in Fort Worth, Tex.…
Amec Foster Wheeler (London, U.K.; www.amecfw.com) announced the award of a contract by The National Company for Fertilizers & Chemicals (Agrochem) to supply material and detailed engineering for a steam reformer heater for its fertilizer facility in Alexandria, Egypt. The…
Solvay SA (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has launched the production of Highly Dispersible Silica (HDS) at its new state-of-the-art plant in Gunsan, South Korea, meeting strong and growing regional demand for energy saving tires. The plant has an annual capacity of…
Saint-Gobain has acquired 100% of the share capital of the Italian company h-old from private equity fund Arcadia Small Cap. Founded in 1982, h-old designs, manufactures and distributes – mostly in Europe – specialty adhesive tapes for various high-performance applications…