Akzo Nobel N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has strengthened its position in the North American hydrogen peroxide market after acquiring the outstanding shares in EkO Peroxide LLC from joint venture partner OCI Peroxygens LLC (a subsidiary of OCI Enterprises Inc.).…
Evonik Industries (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) and Akzo Nobel N.V. (AkzoNobel; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) broke ground to officially start the construction of a new membrane electrolysis plant in Ibbenbüren. The new facility is due to come onstream by the fourth…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) announced that it has signed a longterm contract to provide nitrogen to Toray Carbon Fibers America, Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of Toray Industries, Inc. Praxair will build, own and operate an air separation plant that…
Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com) and Carbon Holdings, the privately owned Egyptian petrochemical firm, have announced that Emerson Process Management has been selected to provide automation and reliability technologies and services for Carbon Holdings’ Tahrir Petrochemicals Project at Ain Sokhna,…
Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.yokogawa.com) announces the acquisition of Industrial Evolution Inc. (Phoenix, Ariz.; www.industrialevolution.com) to strengthen its provision of advanced solutions to the process industries. The acquisition of Industrial Evolution, a provider of cloud-based plant data sharing services,…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced that it has acquired Weatherly Inc, Plinke GmbH and Chematur Ecoplanning Oy from Chematur Technologies AB, owned by Connell Chemical. Weatherly is a North American-based company with extensive experience providing nitric acid and ammonium nitrate…
Solvay (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has entered into an agreement under which its desalination and phosphonates and phosphonic acid-based water additives business will be acquired by Italmatch Chemicals Group. The transaction is consistent with Italmatch Chemicals Group’s growth strategy and strengthens…
PPG Industries, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.ppg.com) announced that it is increasing precipitated silica production capacity at its Lake Charles, La., manufacturing plant by more than 10,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) in response to growing demand. “PPG remains committed to…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has started up a second production line for high-performance plastics compounding at its facility in Gastonia, North Carolina, as planned. The new line represents an investment of about $15 million and doubles the site’s production…
The Endress+Hauser Group (Reinach, Switzerland; www.endress.com) is making personnel changes to its Executive Board. Gerhard Jost, a member of the Executive Board, retired at the end of 2015. Manfred Jagiella has joined the Group’s top management panel. On June 1,…