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 (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 (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 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 (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 (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, 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 (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 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 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.…