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…
Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan; www.sumitomo-chem.co.jp) has acquired Emas Plastik A.S. and its affiliated companies (the Emas Group), a major plastic compounder group in Turkey through Sumika Polymer Compounds Europe Ltd., a Sumitomo Chemicals subsidiary, to further advance the global…
Tosoh Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.tosoh.com) announced plans to increase production capacity for chloroprene rubber (CR), marketed under the product name Skyprene, which is part of the functional polymer product lineup of the Specialty business, at the Nanyo Complex in Shunan…
The Chemours Co. (Wilmington, Del.; www.chemours.com) announced the acquisition of Southern Ionics Minerals, LLC (SIM), a minerals exploration, mining, and manufacturing company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. SIM was a wholly owned subsidiary of Southern Ionics Incorporated (SII), a privately held…
The Chinese company Anhui Conch Cement is one of the world’s biggest cement producers. China alone accounted for around 2.2 billion tons, or about 56%, of total world cement production in 2018. Anhui Conch Cement recently placed an order with…
Koch-Glitsch (Wichita, Kan.; www.koch-glitsch.com), a subsidiary of Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) and its parent company Koch Industries, announced the acquisition of Julius Montz GmbH from the Pfaudler Group. This acquisition will increase Koch-Glitsch's presence worldwide by strengthening its global footprint, broadening…
The need to serve growing global populations while meeting stringent environmental requirements is more pressing than ever before. To meet these conflicting challenges, most of the world’s leading agrochemical and fertilizer producers rely on ANDRITZ to ensure reliable uptime and…
Enhanced automation solutions with IIoT technology like the proven Metris addIQ control systems from ANDRITZ have been tailored and installed for municipalities and industrial companies in all kinds of solid/liquid separation applications for some time now, and with great success.…