Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) announced that Total Lubrifiants (lubricants.total.com) has acquired Houghton International’s aluminum hot rolling oil (AHRO), steel cold rolling oil (SCRO) and tinplate rolling oil (TPRO) activities in the North American and European Economic Area markets. The transaction…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced it has been awarded a contract by POSCO Chemical to supply on-site nitrogen to a new anode material manufacturing site being built in Sejong, South Korea. POSCO Chemical is an affiliate of POSCO…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) announced today that the company’s Catalysts business (Munich, Germany; www.clariant.com/catalysts) inaugurated a new services and support office in Jubail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Located in the eastern coast of the country, Jubail is the world’s largest…
Recently, the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) on behalf of its Process Automation Users Group (PAUG) and NAMUR (Leverkusen, Germany; www.namur.net), the association of process industry end users of automation technology, have signed an agreement to cooperate on…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced it has completed the acquisition of General Electric Company's (GE) gasification business from GE Power. Financial terms of the transaction are not being disclosed. "The successful acquisition of the GE gasification technology further supports…
W. R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.; www.grace.com) has licensed its UNIPOL PP Process Technology to Datong Coal Mine Group Co., Ltd. The UNIPOL PP facility, located in Datong, China, will produce 430,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of polypropylene and…
Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan; www.sumitomo-chem.co.jp) has acquired Emas Plastik A.S. and its affiliated companies (the Emas Group), a major plastic compounder group in Turkey through Sumika Polymer Compounds Europe Ltd., a Sumitomo Chemicals subsidiary, to further advance the global…
Tosoh Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.tosoh.com) announced plans to increase production capacity for chloroprene rubber (CR), marketed under the product name Skyprene, which is part of the functional polymer product lineup of the Specialty business, at the Nanyo Complex in Shunan…
The Chemours Co. (Wilmington, Del.; www.chemours.com) announced the acquisition of Southern Ionics Minerals, LLC (SIM), a minerals exploration, mining, and manufacturing company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. SIM was a wholly owned subsidiary of Southern Ionics Incorporated (SII), a privately held…
The Chinese company Anhui Conch Cement is one of the world’s biggest cement producers. China alone accounted for around 2.2 billion tons, or about 56%, of total world cement production in 2018. Anhui Conch Cement recently placed an order with…