Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.yokogawa.com) announces the acquisition of Industrial Evolution Inc. (Phoenix, Ariz.; www.industrialevolution.com) to strengthen its provision of advanced solutions to the process industries. The acquisition of Industrial Evolution, a provider of cloud-based plant data sharing services,…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced that it has acquired Weatherly Inc, Plinke GmbH and Chematur Ecoplanning Oy from Chematur Technologies AB, owned by Connell Chemical. Weatherly is a North American-based company with extensive experience providing nitric acid and ammonium nitrate…
Solvay (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has entered into an agreement under which its desalination and phosphonates and phosphonic acid-based water additives business will be acquired by Italmatch Chemicals Group. The transaction is consistent with Italmatch Chemicals Group’s growth strategy and strengthens…
Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.; www.bv.com) will perform key roles in two upcoming desalination projects in Hong Kong and Singapore. Both central to each city’s water resiliency planning, the two plants are set to establish new design and…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) says that ICA Fluor, its industrial engineering and construction joint venture with Empresas ICA, S.A.B. de C.V. (www.ica.com.mx/ir), was authorized by Pemex Transformación Industrial (Pemex) to proceed with the engineering, procurement and construction (Phase…
The S&P Chemicals Index, a measure of equity prices for chemical companies, fell 4.0% in December and ended 2015 down 6.3% compared to the beginning of the year, according to the first Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report of 2016, from…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded a contract by Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) to provide technology, engineering and procurement services for a grassroots hydrogen plant in Baytown, Texas. The 3.5 million standard cubic meters per day plant…
Axens North America Inc. (Houston; www.axens.net) has entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement (APA) with Scutter Enterprises, L.L.C. (Chesterfield, Missouri) to purchase assets and technology related to sulfur removal products. Scutter was created in 2009 and specialized in solid…
PPG Industries, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.ppg.com) announced that it is increasing precipitated silica production capacity at its Lake Charles, La., manufacturing plant by more than 10,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) in response to growing demand. “PPG remains committed to…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has started up a second production line for high-performance plastics compounding at its facility in Gastonia, North Carolina, as planned. The new line represents an investment of about $15 million and doubles the site’s production…