DuPont’s (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) Performance Polymers business has increased production capacity of DuPont Zytel PA 66 and PA 6 at its Uentrop facility in Hamm, Germany by 20% to meet growing demand primarily in the global automotive industry. Lightweight, high-performance…
PPG Industries, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.ppg.com) has reached a definitive agreement to acquire IVC Industrial Coatings, Inc., a U.S.-based specialty-powder and liquid-coatings manufacturer with 2014 sales of more than $100 million. The transaction is expected to close in the third…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has started production at its two new large-scale and “on-pipe” alkoxylation facilities in Moerdijk, the Netherlands, and in Singapore. Both units are located in integrated petrochemical hubs and receive ethylene oxide via dedicated pipelines, providing…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced that it has been awarded a major contract to supply industrial bulk gases and bulk specialty-gas supply system for a new semiconductor fab in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Air Products will build…
Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo; www.sumitomo-chem.co.jp) has announced plans to more than double its production capacity for lithium-ion secondary battery separators, which are marketed under the Pervio brand name. The production at its Ohe Works in Niihama, Ehime Pref., Japan will…
Total S.A.’s (Paris, France; www.total.com) Total Fluides (www.totalspecialfluids.com) and Neste Oil Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.nesteoil.com) have signed a collaborative agreement for the supply of Neste’s proprietary NEXBTL renewable isoalkane to be used by Total Fluides as feedstock to produce innovative…
ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) has opened a new facility in Houston that will build fully integrated analyzer shelters for the downstream oil-and-gas industry. The new 40,000-ft2 Analytical Systems Integration Facility will manufacture integrated shelters containing analyzer systems that are designed…
Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany; www.messergroup.com) has announced the successful commissioning of a new production facility, where the company has been producing the noble gases krypton and xenon, located in the central Chinese city of Panzhihua, Sichuan province. In…
Innospec Inc. (Littleton, Colo.; www.innospecinc.com) announced that it has reached an agreement to divest its Aroma Chemicals business unit (Innospec Widnes Limited) to Emerald Kalama Chemical, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials LLC. Terms of the transaction were not…
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki; www.kemira.com) has announced opening of what is said to be one of Europe's largest production plants for the manufacture of water-treatment chemicals. The Tarragona plant located in La Canonja, Catalonia, Spain, also has a unit for the…