With its strategic acquisition of Innojet Herbert Hüttlin, the Romaco Group (Karlsruhe, Germany; www.romaco.com) will be able to provide engineering solutions for the entire chain for manufacturing and packing pharmaceutical solids. The transaction was officially closed on February 12, 2015.…
Styrolution Group GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany; www.styrolution.com) is making three appointments to its management board, including two new regional presidents and a newly created position, president of operations. Hyung Tae (HT) Chang, who currently serves as President, Asia Pacific will retire…
Prayon S.A. (Engis, Belgium; www.prayon.com), world leader in phosphate chemistry, will build a manufacturing plant for food-grade sodium hexametaphosphate (SHMP) that will double its production capacity and strengthen its position in the food sector. After preliminary studies, the decision was…
Bentley Systems, Inc. (Exton, Pa.; www.bentley.com) announced that it has acquired France-based Acute3D, provider of Smart3DCapture software for reality modeling. Through reality modeling, observations of existing conditions are processed into representations for contextual alignment within design modeling and construction modeling…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has been selected by Chinese petrochemical company Yuhuang Chemical, Inc., as the supplier of oxygen for its new world-scale methanol manufacturing complex to be built in St. James Parish, Louisiana. Air Liquide will invest around $170 million…
Alcoa Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.alcoa.com) announced that Nahla A. Azmy has joined Alcoa as vice president, Investor Relations. Azmy had been vice president, Investor Relations and Communications for Rockwood Holdings, Inc., a leading global specialty chemicals company. She succeeds Kelly…
P.T. Indonesia Chemical Alumina (ICA), a joint venture (JV) owned by Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo, Japan; www.sdk.co.jp) and PT Antam (Persero) Tbk (Antam), of Indonesia, has started commercial operation of its new chemical alumina plant established in the Tayan…
Spending on the construction of new chemical manufacturing facilities is up 73.5% year-over-year, according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). The ACC’s current list of chemical industry projects totals…
The Board of Directors of Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, www.toyo-eng.co.jp) have announced the appointment for the offices of president and chief executive officer (CEO). Effective April 1, 2015, current Director and senior executive officer Kiyoshi Nakao will take the…
Kuraray Co. (Tokyo, Japan; www.kuraray.co.jp/en) will boost the ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVOH resin) production capacity of EVAL Europe N.V., a wholly owned Kuraray subsidiary located in Antwerp, Belgium. The capacity increase will add 11,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr)…