thyssenkrupp AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp.com) will establish an Additive Manufacturing TechCenter Hub in Singapore this year. The announcement – made at Hannover Messe 2019, the world’s leading trade fair for industrial technology – illustrates the company’s initiative to bring its…
At Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) Catalyst business line’s manufacturing site in Dombivli, India, the company is commissioning a new plant initially for the production of KALCAT and in the long-term also Metalyst Activated Metal Catalysts. This new state…
HPCL Rajasthan Refinery Ltd. (HRRL), a joint venture company between HPCL and the Government of Rajasthan, India, has selected Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) to supply several advanced technologies for its state-of-the-art 9 MTPA integrated refinery and petrochemical complex to be…
Plastic Energy Ltd. (London, U.K.; www.plasticenergy.com), a company with a unique process to recycle plastic waste on a global and commercial scale, has reached an agreement with the province of West Java (Indonesia) to build five chemical recycling plants. The…
AVEVA (Cambridge, U.K.; www.aveva.com) announced a significant addition to its comprehensive Asset Performance Management (APM) portfolio with the acquisition of the software assets of MaxGrip, subject to approval from MaxGrip’s shareholders. MaxGrip, an AVEVA partner since 2017, is a pioneer…
Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals) will start construction in May on a project to further increase capacity for chloromethanes at its site in Frankfurt, Germany, supporting growing global customer demand. The expansion is expected to be completed in 2020. The…
Borealis Group (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) and Borouge have announced that Borealis’ new compounding plant in Taylorsville, North Carolina, has come on stream as planned, with the inauguration of the facility scheduled for 16 May 2019. With dedicated production lines for…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced that it has been awarded a contract by Saudi Aramco for KBR's Supercritical Solvent Deasphalting (SDA) technology ROSE.Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide a 3-product ROSE technology license, basic engineering design, and proprietary…
DowDuPont Inc. announced that it has completed the separation of its Materials Science Division through the spin-off of Dow Inc. Dow begins “regular way” trading tomorrow on the NYSE under the symbol “DOW.” DowDuPont common stockholders received one share of…
AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) announced an investment in major site upgrades to strengthen position in US wood coatings. This milestone multi-million-dollar investment is set to transform AkzoNobel’s wood coatings facility in High Point, North Carolina. The transformation will involve…