Saint-Gobain (Courbevoie, France; www.saint-gobain.com), through its French subsidiary Placoplatre, has reached an agreement with HIRSCH Servo Group and BEWiSynbra Group to sell its expanded polystyrene (EPS) business in France. Saint-Gobain previously sold its German EPS business to HIRSCH. Saint-Gobain’s French…
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Dusseldorf, Germany; www.henkel.com) has held the groundbreaking ceremony for a new production facility in the high-tech industrial cluster in Songdo, South Korea. With an investment of more than 30 million euros, the new plant will…
Nouryon Chemicals B.V.(Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.nouryon.com) has awarded a Master Services Agreement (MSA) to Worley (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) to provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services. Under the agreement, the services will be provided to twenty of Nouryon’s…
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo; www.sdk.co.jp) has decided to commercialize 1,3-butylene glycol (1,3-BG), which is mainly used as raw material for cosmetics. SDK will finish installation of facilities to produce 1,3-BG in its Oita Complex by the end of 2019,…
Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.; www.linde.com) has started up a new SPECTRA hig- purity nitrogen generator to support the expansion of a leading semiconductor manufacturer in the ZhangJiang Hi-tech Park, Shanghai. Linde's nitrogen will be used throughout the new semi-conductor fabrication…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) announced the acquisition of a key Malaysian industrial gas player, Southern Industrial Gases Sdn Bhd. This acquisition doubles Air Liquide’s Packaged Gases filling capacity in Malaysia. It is expected to deliver significant synergies by enlarging…
Steinmüller Engineering GmbH (Gummersbach, Germany; www.steinmueller.com), www.part of the Japanese IHI Corp., is the new shareholder of GRAF EnviroPro GmbH (Friedrichsdorf/Taunus, Germany). With this acquisition Steinmüller Engineering expands its competences in the field of fluegas cleaning. GRAF EnviroPro (GEo) is…
Efficient filtration is an essential process step in the chemical industry if you want to guarantee consistently high product quality. The filter press has long been established as one of the most common products for filtration, but extensive changes over…
Godavari Biorefineries Limited (GBL; Mumbai, India; https://somaiya.com) inaugurated its upgraded state of the art set-up “Zero Liquid Discharge” (ZLD) facility at its plant in Sakarwadi, Maharashtra. To attain ZLD, effluents are subjected to biological treatment, ultra-filtration, reverse osmosis (RO), multiple…
Axchem USA, Inc. (Greensboro, N.C.; www.axchemgroup.com) and Novel Industrial Solutions LLC (New Albany, Ohio; www.novelindustrial.com) today announced the combination of business operations, assets, people and customer contracts under the Axchem USA brand to offer chemicals and solutions to the pulp-and-paper…