Air Liquide’s (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) engineering and construction activity entity, Air Liquide Global E&C Solutions has announced the successful startup of a world-scale butadiene extraction unit at Evonik’s facility in Antwerp, Belgium, and further strengthens its leading market position in…
ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.exxonmobil.com) will expand the hydrocracker unit at its Rotterdam refinery to upgrade heavier byproducts into cleaner, higher-value finished products, including EHC Group II base stocks and ultra-low sulfur diesel, to meet growing global market demand. The…
Yara International ASA (Oslo, Norway; www.yara.com) has acquired 100% of the shares in Apache Fertilisers Pty. Ltd., which holds Apache's 49% ownership position in Yara Pilbara Holdings Pty. Ltd. (YPHL), for $391 million. YPHL owns 100% of the Yara Pilbara…
Analytik Jena AG (www.analytik-jena.de) has established a branch office on the premises of Endress+Hauser Group’s (Reinach, Switzerland; www.endress.com) Reinach site in Switzerland. “This step is part of our strategy to further expand our international sales structure and to establish our…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is planning to start production of Palatinol DOTP (diethylhexyl terephthalate) in North America in 2017 by investing in dedicated production facilities in Pasadena, Tex. The project will help meet the growing demand for non-ortho-phthalate plasticizers…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has opened its expanded facilities in Ako, Japan, where the company will produce its Sipernat and Carplex lines of specialty silicas. The investment represents a roughly 50% increase in Evonik’s Japanese production capacity for…
Sibur's (Moscow; www.sibur.com) subsidiary Biaxplen, Russia's largest producer of biaxially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film, has been integrated into the company's Basic Polymers Division. The facilities operated by the Division produce polypropylene, the main feedstock for BOPP film. The integration will ensure leaner…
Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (Tokyo; www.mitsui.com) has reached an agreement to sell its entire stake in its Brazil-based associated company, Santa Vitória Açúcar e Álcool Ltda (SVAA), to The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) for approximately $200 million. The…
A consortium comprising Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com), Ferrostaal Industrial Projects GmbH (Essen, Germany; www.ferrostaal.com) and Fauji Fertilizer Company Ltd., has entered into a joint venture (JV) for the first fertilizer plant in Tanzania with Tanzania Petroleum Development Corp.…
EuroChem Group AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.eurochemgroup.com) has announced that its subsidiary, EuroChem Trading USA, has completed the acquisition of Ben-Trei Fertilizer Company, a U.S.-based fertilizer distributor. This transaction will allow EuroChem to benefit from Ben-Trei’s established relationships with local customers…