QuantumSphere, Inc. (QSI; Santa Ana, Calif.; www.qsinano.com) says it has completed its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility for the production of the company’s proprietary FeNIX nano iron catalyst product. FeNIX nanocatalysts were developed to address costly production inefficiencies within the several…
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; www.mhi-global.com) and Mitsubishi Corp. (MC; both Tokyo, Japan; www.mitsubishicorp.com) will build a large scale ammonia and urea fertilizer production plant for Navoiyazat Joint Stock Co. (Navoiyazat JSC), a chemical production company of the Uzkimyosanoat…
Genomatica (San Diego, Calif.; www.genomatica.com) and Cargill (Minneapolis, Minn.; www.cargill.com) have entered into a collaboration agreement to accelerate the production of renewable chemicals for industrial applications. The collaboration will give chemical producers, distributors and users access to a reliable, cost-effective…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will form a global business unit (GBU) combining all of its pigments activities effective January 2016. In the second half of 2016, BASF intends to carve out its pigments business and establish separate legal…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has signed an agreement with Siberwood LLC to examine the construction of new hydrogen peroxide capacity in Russia, using Solvay’s innovative myH2O2 technology, which is particularly suitable for large customers requiring secure on-site production…
Victrex plc (Thornton Cleveleys, U.K.; www.victrex.com) has announced the acquisition of U.S.-based polymer-gears specialist Kleiss Gears Inc. (www.kleissgears.com). Kleiss Gears has a proven track record stretching over 20 years of replacing and complementing metal gear systems with high-performance engineering polymer…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced that China’s Ningxia Baota Chemical Fiber Co. will use Honeywell UOP’s latest-generation technologies and equipment to build an energy-efficient petrochemical complex. The Yinchuan City, Ningxia, China, complex will produce valuable…
Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group (WMFTG; Cornwall, U.K.; www.wmftg.com) has acquired the MasoSine sinusoidal pump manufacturing and distribution business from PRIMIX Corp. in Japan, through its parent company Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc, for £2.8 million. This acquisition will further strengthen the level…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Petronas Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG; www.petronaschemicals.com.my) will build a new world-scale production plant for highly reactive polyisobutene (HR-PIB) at the site of their existing joint venture, BASF Petronas Chemicals Sdn Bhd (www.basf-petronas.com.my), in…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract in excess of $90 million by NefteGazIndustriya, LLC, through project developer MAVEG Industrieausruestungen GmbH, for the Afipsky Oil Refinery. The scope of work includes detailed engineering, procurement, fabrication and…