Intergraph Corp. (Huntsville, Ala.; www.intergraph.com) Process, Power & Marine has acquired OhmTech A/S (Stavanger, Norway), a provider of pressure-vessel design software for more than 30 years. OhmTech’s technical and development staff in Norway have joined Intergraph as part of the…
PPG Industries, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.ppg.com) announced the the completion of a $40-million, 65,000-ft2 plant for onsite resin production at its Sumaré, São Paulo, Brazil, coatings manufacturing facility. “The expansion of the Sumaré facility demonstrates PPG’s long-term commitment to our…
Indorama Ventures Public Co. Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indorama.net) announced that its subsidiary, Indorama Petrochem Ltd., Thailand, has signed a definitive share-purchase agreement with Bangkok Cable Co., to acquire a 94.91% equity stake in Bangkok Polyester Public Co. (BPC). BPC…
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) has awarded Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) a contract to provide project-management contractor services for its new oil-and-gas processing and petrochemical complex (OGPC) in Azerbaijan. Fluor will book the contract for an…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) has announced that its Heat Generating Material (HGM) for the Catofin process technology for producing propylene from propane demonstrated excellent performance at the propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant of Ningbo Haiyue New Material Co. Limited in Ningbo…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co. (EMRE) have concluded an agreement on EMRE’s Flexsorb technology. The agreement provides BASF with the right to sublicense the technology and supply the related solvent to third parties. The…
The Supervisory Board of Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has resolved to appoint Michael Pontzen as a member of the board of management, effective April 1, 2015. He will assume the role of chief financial officer (CFO) at the specialty…
Synthomer plc (Essex, U.K.; www.synthomer.com; ), a producer of carboxylated styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) for carpet, paper and speciality applications, has announced an expansion of its Kluang plant in Johor State, Malaysia to produce a range of specialty SBR to…
A. Schulman, Inc. (Akron, Ohio; www.aschulman.com) has executed a definitive agreement to acquire all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of privately held Citadel Plastics Holdings, Inc., a portfolio company of private equity firms HGGC and Charlesbank Capital Partners,…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has agreed with Emery Oleochemicals and ERCA Group to buy their jointly-owned new alkoxylation facility, ERCA Emery Surfactant B.V., in the Moerdijk integrated industrial park in the Netherlands. As an on-pipe facility, commissioned in 2014,…