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BASF invests in new mobile emissions catalysts production facility in Shanghai

BASF SE (Luswigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is investing in a new production facility for mobile emissions catalysts at its Pudong site in Shanghai, China. The new 30,000-square-meter facility will house multiple manufacturing lines, providing a full range of emissions control technologies…

Clariant and Saudi Kayan to evaluate alkoxylates joint venture

Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Saudi Kayan, a Saudi joint stock company leading in the field of chemicals, polymers and specialty products. As defined by the MoU, both parties have agreed to evaluate…

Air Products to supply three nitrogen-generation plants in the Netherlands

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) and N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie (www.gasunie.com) announced the signing of an industrial gas equipment agreement that will help to address a matter of national energy importance for The Netherlands. Air Products will supply Gasunie three…

Nano One and Saint-Gobain enter joint development agreement for lithium processing

Nano One Materials Corp. (Vancouver, B.C., Canada; www.nanoone.ca) announced that the company has entered into a Joint Development Agreement with Saint-Gobain (Paris, France; www.saint-gobain.com). The goal of the collaboration is to enhance high-temperature processing of Nano One’s lithium-ion battery materials.…

Bechtel and Alba reach milestone in aluminum expansion project in Bahrain

Bechtel (Reston, Va.; www.bechtel.com) and Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), the Bahrain-based aluminum producer, announced the successful production of the First Hot Metal at Alba’s Potline 6 Expansion Project. Potline 6, which is being executed by Bechtel as the engineering, procurement and…

Alfa Laval acquires selected heat-exchanger technology assets from Airec

Alfa Laval (Lund, Sweden; www.alfalaval.com) announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire certain technologies and activities from Airec – a Malmö, Sweden-based innovation company with patented technology for dimple asymmetry heat exchangers. The new company will be integrated…

KBR Announces a New Propane Dehydrogenation Technology

KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has developed a new propane dehydrogenation (PDH) technology — tradenamed K-PRO — that offers high propylene selectivity and conversion. This technology is based on KBR's catalytic olefins technology (K-COT), which is a commercially proven fluidized-bed technology…

Covestro begins construction of polycarbonate films plant in Thailand

Covestro (Leverkusen, Germany; www.covestro.com)  has started to build a new manufacturing line for polycarbonate films at Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate, Thailand. With this new capacity, the company will serve the fast-growing demand in Asia Pacific and strengthen its own…

Umicore to construct new production site for fuel-cell catalysts near Seoul

Umicore N.V. (Brussels, Belgium; www.umicore.com) announced that it will be expanding its production capacity for fuel-cell catalysts in South Korea to support the growth of Hyundai Motors Group as well as other automotive customers. The low double-digit million euro investment…

Wacker to expand global production capacities for silicone rubber

Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com)  is increasing its global production capacities for silicone rubber. With expansion measures at several sites, Wacker plans to gradually raise its capacities by a total of 40,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) by 2021.…