U.S. Water Services, Inc. (St. Michael, Minn.; www.uswaterservices.com) today announced that is has joined the Kurita Water Industries Ltd. companies (www.kurita.co.jp) a leading international water management company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The acquisition was announced in early February 2019 and…
Covestro (Leverkusen, Germany; www.covestro.com ), one of the world’s largest polymer companies, and biotechnology company Genomatica have formed a partnership to research and develop high-performance materials based on renewable feedstocks. Both companies aim to reduce the use of fossil-based resources.…
United Chemical Company Shchekinoazot has selected Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) as licensor of ammonia technology for the construction of a new ammonia and urea plant. Located in the Tula region of Russia, the plant will have a capacity…
The Chemical Activity Barometer (CAB), a leading economic indicator created by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), rose 0.1 percent in March on a three-month moving average (3MMA) basis, the first gain in five months. On a year-over-year…
Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland; www.woodplc.com) has been awarded a prestigious multi-million-dollar contract by the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative Climate Investments (OGCI CI) to provide conceptual engineering for its gas power and industrial carbon capture conceptual design work. This project…
Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals; www.akzonobel.com) will double production capacity for solvent-based organic peroxides at its Los Reyes, Mexico site, enabling it to support the strong growth of the North American polyolefin and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) markets. The expansion is…
McDermott International, Inc. (Houston; www.mcdermott.com) announced a sizeable contract award from Unipetrol RPA for engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for its petroleum refinery in Litvinov, Czech Republic. The contract includes the full suite of EPCM services for the…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) has successfully started up a Kepstan PEKK (Poly-Ether-Ketone-Ketone) plant at its site near Mobile, Alabama. This investment is a new step in Arkema’s ambitious growth strategy in high-performance polymers and advanced materials development. This investment, which…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has started the pre-front-end engineering and design (pre-FEED) and FEED for INVISTA’s (Wichita, Kan.; www.invista.com) new adiponitrile (ADN) manufacturing facility in China. The manufacturing facility is anticipated to have a production capacity of approximately 400,000…
At €18.3 billion, incoming orders booked in Germany by members of the VDMA Large Industrial Plant Manufacturers ́ Group (AGAB; Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.vdma.org) in 2018 were 3% up on the previous year (2017: €17.8 billion). In a volatile…