Halix B.V. (Leiden, the Netherlands; www.halix.nl), a contract development and manufacturing organization of clinical and commercial proteins and viral products, announced today that it has met its major milestone with the interim delivery of a new 6,700-m2 cGMP facility in…
Indorama Ventures Public Co. Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indoramaventures.com) has announced the acquisition of Huntsman Corp.’s (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.huntsman.com) integrated oxides and derivatives businesses. The purchase price is based on an enterprise value of $2.0 billion and up to…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that Sonatrach Total Entreprise Polymères Spa (STEP), a joint venture (JV) between Sonatrach and TOTAL S.A, has selected LyondellBasell’s Spheripol technology for a 550,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) polypropylene unit to be constructed…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced that it has acquired isomerization technologies from RRT Global that will enable KBR to offer expanded octane and clean fuel technology solutions to customers. KBR, in alliance with RRT Global, has been offering MAX-ISOM catalytic…
Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) announced that Total Lubrifiants (lubricants.total.com) has acquired Houghton International’s aluminum hot rolling oil (AHRO), steel cold rolling oil (SCRO) and tinplate rolling oil (TPRO) activities in the North American and European Economic Area markets. The transaction…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced it has been awarded a contract by POSCO Chemical to supply on-site nitrogen to a new anode material manufacturing site being built in Sejong, South Korea. POSCO Chemical is an affiliate of POSCO…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) announced today that the company’s Catalysts business (Munich, Germany; www.clariant.com/catalysts) inaugurated a new services and support office in Jubail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Located in the eastern coast of the country, Jubail is the world’s largest…
Recently, the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) on behalf of its Process Automation Users Group (PAUG) and NAMUR (Leverkusen, Germany; www.namur.net), the association of process industry end users of automation technology, have signed an agreement to cooperate on…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced it has completed the acquisition of General Electric Company's (GE) gasification business from GE Power. Financial terms of the transaction are not being disclosed. "The successful acquisition of the GE gasification technology further supports…
W. R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.; www.grace.com) has licensed its UNIPOL PP Process Technology to Datong Coal Mine Group Co., Ltd. The UNIPOL PP facility, located in Datong, China, will produce 430,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of polypropylene and…