Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) and Honeywell (Charlotte, N.C.; www.honeywell.com) announced a technology alliance to expand the benefits of connected services to a broader range of the chemical and refining industries. As a product of this alliance, Topsoe has…
TechnipFMC (Houston; www.technipfmc.com) has successfully completed the remaining conditions required to enable work to commence on the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contract by Middle East Oil Refinery (MIDOR) for the modernization and expansion of their existing complex near Alexandria, Egypt. As previously…
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (MCI; Tokyo; www.mitsuichem.com) has decided to set up a new production facility for long glass-fiber-reinforced polypropylene (LGFPP) at Chinese manufacturing subsidiary Mitsui Advanced Composites (Zhongshan) Co, Ltd. This will become Mitsui Chemicals’ third manufacturing base for LGFPP,…
BP (London; www.bp.com), Virent Inc. (Madison, Wis.; www.virent.com) and Johnson Matthey (JM; London; www.matthey.com) have signed an agreement that will further advance the commercialization of Virent’s Bioforming process for production of bio-paraxylene (PX), a key raw material for the production…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has signed an agreement to sell its Methacrylates business to Advent International (Boston, Mass.; www.adventinternational.com) for €3 billion. The selling price (enterprise value) is 8.5 times the business’ EBITDA. The transaction is subject to…
Axens (Rueill-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) has announced that it has taken an equity interest in the French company Arol Energy (Le Bourget-du-Lac, France; www.arol-energy.com), an expert in biogas purification systems. Arol Energy has many years of experience in the development and…
Syndial, Eni's (Rome, Italy; www.eni.com) center for the environment and waste management, and Veritas signed a memorandum of understanding in Venice to jointly study the construction of an industrial plant that will transform the organic fraction of solid municipal waste…
Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals; www.nouryon.com) has started production of Butanox, one of its methyl ethyl ketone peroxide (MEKP) product lines, at its site in Pasadena, Texas, providing a local supply source and enabling a better service for customers in…
On March 3, Sadara Chemical Company (Sadara; www.sadara.com), a Joint Venture developed by Saudi Aramco & The Dow Chemical Company, broke ground on the Ethylene Oxide (EO) and Propylene Oxide (PO) Pipeline Project. This pipeline will serve a key industrial…
Industrial gases specialist Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany; www.messergroup.com) acquired the majority of Linde AG’s (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) gases business in North America and certain Linde and Praxair (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) business activities in South America with effect from…