INEOS Phenol (London; www.ineos.com) has announced it is to build a world-scale cumene unit in Marl Germany, to be completed in 2021. The new unit will use existing pipeline connections between INEOS’ phenol and acetone production site in Gladbeck, the…
DuPont Clean Technologies (www.cleantechnologies.dupont.com) has been awarded contracts to supply Shenghong Petrochemical Group Co., Limited (Shenghong) with a STRATCO alkylation technology license, engineering, and proprietary equipment. Shenghong is undertaking a project to design and construct a new alkylation unit as…
Following a construction period of two years, a joint venture (JV) between Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) and the Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) has commissioned the world’s largest fermentative manufacturing operation using natural marine algae in…
The technology and licensing group of Invista (Wichita, Kan.; www.invista.com), INVISTA Performance Technologies (IPT), Sichuan Shengda Chemical New Material Co. and Sichuan Energy Investment Chemical New Material Co., Ltd (Sichuan Energy) announced the successful startup of Sichuan Shengda’s purified terephthalic…
Omnova Solutions Inc. (Beachwood, Ohio; www.omnova.com) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Synthomer plc (London, U.K.; www.synthomer.com) for $10.15 per share in cash. The company also reported its second quarter fiscal 2019 earnings, which…
Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.; www.trinseo.com) announced the opening a new compounding factory at its Hoek Site in Terneuzen, The Netherlands on June 26, 2019. With this development, the company is providing an extra boost to the developments in the field of…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has increased its global production capacity for the higher carboxylic acids (HCA) isononanoic acid (INA) and 2-ethylhexanoic acid (2-EHA) from 55,000 metric tons (m.t.) to 68,000 m.t./yr. With world-scale and highly flexible production facilities at…
Effective July 8, 2019, Victaulic (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.victaulic.com) has purchased Globe Fire Sprinkler (Standish, Mich.; www.globesprinkler.com). Combined, the two companies will look to bring new solutions to the fire protection industry around the world. Steven Worthington, who will continue…
Catalent, Inc. (Somerset, N.J.; www.catalent.com), a leading global provider of advanced delivery technologies, and development and manufacturing solutions for drugs, biologics, gene therapies, and consumer health products, today announced that it has significantly expanded the capacity of its global…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed a long-term agreement with Gulf Coast Growth Ventures (GCGV), a 50/50 joint venture between ExxonMobil and SABIC, to supply oxygen and nitrogen from its industrial gas pipeline network to GCGV’s planned ethane…