Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) announces a new investment for Axion Energy Argentina, a subsidiary of Bridas Corporation and a leading refiner in Argentina, to expand its longterm supply of hydrogen. Air Liquide will invest around €55 million in a second hydrogen…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced the signing of an agreement for the supply of multiple industrial gases to The Chemours Co. (Wilmington, Del.; www.chemours.com). Air Products will build, own and operate an air separation unit (ASU) in New…
Milliken & Co. (Spartanburg, S.C.; www.milliken.com) announced that J. Harold Chandler has been elected chairman, president and chief executive officer effective immediately following the resignation of Joseph M. Salley as president and chief executive officer and as a member of the board…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announced that it expects to increase global production capacity for its high-performance sulfone polymers by more than 35% over the next five years through significant investments and process optimizations at facilities in the U.S. and…
Trinseo will begin production of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) resin (marketed under the name Magnum ABS) at its Zhangjiagang, China site in 2017. The investment project, which began in 2015, is based on Trinseo’s proprietary process technology, which yields ABS…
Braskem (São Paulo, Brazil; www.braskem.com.br), the largest thermoplastics resins producer in the Americas, announced the commissioning of the new UTEC ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) engineered-polymer production plant at its La Porte, Texas site. Braskem sells high-performance UHMWPE under the trade name…
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo; www.toray.com) announced that it has made a decision to absorb Toray Battery Separator Film Co., a wholly owned consolidated subsidiary that manufactures and markets separators for lithium-ion secondary batteries (LIB) effective April 1, 2017. The merger…
PolyOne Corp. (Avon Lake, Ohio; www.polyone.com) announced that it expects to begin local production of specialty engineered materials at its existing facility in Pune, India in January 2017. The new capability enables PolyOne to more broadly support customers and increase…
Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.; www.trinseo.com) announced its plans for a new S-SBR (Solution-Styrene Butadiene Rubber) pilot plant in Schkopau, Germany for the company’s Synthetic Rubber Business. The S-SBR pilot plant will allow for more efficient use of Trinseo’s production facilities and…
Sibur (Moscow; www.sibur.com) has signed an agreement with Conser, an Italian engineering company, to acquire a license for maleic anhydride (MAN) production technology for its Tobolsk facility. Maleic anhydride is used in the construction, agriculture, automotive, paint and varnish, furniture, pharmaceutical…