Total SA (Paris; www.total.com) has announced the startup of its largest lubricant-oil blending plant in the world, located in Singapore. With a production capacity of 310,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) , this new major hub will boost Total’s lubricant…
Porvair Filtration Group Ltd. (Fareham, U.K.; www.porvairfiltration.com) has doubled the size of its manufacturing and office space in Caribou and improved its existing building to provide a showcase facility. The expansion will increase manufacturing capacity and add new capabilities…
Isgec Heavy Engineering Ltd. (Yamunanagar, Haryana, India) and Titan Metal Fabricators Inc. (Camarillo, Calif.; www.titanmf.com) have announced the establishment of a new joint venture (JV) manufacturing operation: Isgec Titan Metal Fabricators Pvt. Ltd. Combining the heavy-equipment fabrication expertise demonstrated by…
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo, Japan; www.sdk.co.jp) has completed the expansion of used-plastic gasification facility at the Kawasaki Plant, and held a ceremony for the completion. As part of its basic chemicals business, SDK is producing ammonia at Kawasaki. SDK…
Umicore N.V. (Brussels, Belgium; www.umicore.com) and Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announced that they have sold their respective 50% stakes in joint venture (JV) SolviCore to Japanese chemical company Toray. Since its inception in 2006, SolviCore has built up a…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is selling its 25% share in the joint venture (JV) SolVin to Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com). The transaction will take place on July 1, 2015. Financial details were not disclosed. In addition, BASF…
Sibur (Moscow, Russia; www.sibur.com) has started the preparatory stage of an investment project to ramp up the production of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), a high-octane petrol additive, at its production site in Togliatti. The project will see the construction…
PPG Industries, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.ppg.com) announced the completion of a $5-million expansion at its coatings manufacturing facility in Wuppertal, Germany. The project added equipment to existing buildings on the campus, supporting up to a 35% increase in annual production…
Harry Van den Akker — Professor of Transport Phenomena at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft; the Netherlands), and the Bernal Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Limerick, Ireland — has been named as the recipient of…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has strengthened its leading position in C4-based products and has successfully, and on time, put into operation new production plants in Antwerp, Belgium. Also in the Marl Chemical Park (Germany), the C4 capacities…