Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) and thyssenkrupp Steel, a world leading supplier of carbon-steel flat products, join forces in a pioneering project to develop lower carbon steel production. For the first time, hydrogen will be injected to partially replace pulverized…
Methanex Corp. (Vancouver, B.C., Canada; www.methanex.com) announced that its Board of Directors reached a unanimous final investment decision to construct a 1.8-million metric ton (m.t.) methanol plant in Geismar, Louisiana adjacent to its existing Geismar 1 and Geismar 2 facilities.…
Axalta Coating Systems (Philadelphia, Pa.; www.axaltacs.com) announced the expansion of its Landshut, Germany, site, creating a second production facility in the region for bonded metallic powder coatings alongside Axalta’s Montbrison plant in France. The second production facility will enable Axalta…
Abengoa S.A. (Seville, Spain; www.abengoa.com) has inaugurated together with its partner Fisia Italiampianti a reverse osmosis desalination plant in the Shuaibah complex, in Saudi Arabia. The Project is the largest desalination plant built by Abengoa to date, with a capacity…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is increasing production capacity for Tinopal CBS optical brighteners at the company's Monthey site in Switzerland. A double-digit million euro investment in existing plants will be used to increase capacity stepwise until 2022. The first…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) has signed an agreement with respect to the sale of its Healthcare Packaging business to a newly-formed affiliate of Arsenal Capital Partners. The total consideration of the sale amounts to approximately CHF 308 million payable at…
PetroLogistics ll LLC (Houston; www.petrologistics.com), a portfolio company of Quantum Energy Partners, announced that it has licensed Dow’s proprietary fluidized catalytic dehydrogenation (FCDh) technology and plans to construct a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) facility on the U.S. Gulf Coast that will…
Endress+Hauser AG (Reinach, Switzerland; www.endress.com) has expanded its center of competence for advanced analysis in Lyon, France. The Group invested €2 million in a new production facility and office space to meet the growing demand in the area of advanced…
IPCO Germany GmbH (former Sandvik Process Systems; Fellbach, Germany; www.ipco.com) has acquired Extruwork S.r.L. (Gerenzano VA, Italy), a manufacturer of extruder lines for powder paint. Core capabilities are within design, production, service and spare parts supply. Extruwork has high technical…
Asahi Kasei (Tokyo, Japan; www.asahi-kasei.co.jp) has decided to expand its plant for Lamous artificial suede in Nobeoka, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan, by four million m2/yr, increasing the total production capacity to 14 million m2/yr upon completion in 2021. Dyed by Italian…