NAES Corp. (Issaquah, Wash.; www.naes.com) has acquired Greenberry Industrial, a nationally recognized industrial contractor, fabricator and mechanical installation provider. Greenberry, headquartered in Vancouver, Wash., is a full-service industrial general contractor and fabricator, serving clients throughout the U.S. and Canada. The…
PPG Industries, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.ppg.com) announced that it is increasing precipitated silica production capacity at its Delfzijl, Netherlands, manufacturing location by more than 15,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr), due in part to growing global demand for Agilon performance…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) announces a new longterm agreement in Australia with Nyrstar, an integrated mining and metals company. Air Liquide will invest €60 million in a new air separation unit (ASU) as part of Nyrstar’s Redevelopment Project at its Port…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded a contract by Qingdao Soda Ash Industrial New Material & Technology Company to provide the technology, engineering, selected critical equipment and technical services for an ethylbenzene styrene monomer (EBSM) plant to be located in…
Kurita Water Industries Ltd. (Tokyo; www.kurita.co.jp) has completed the procedures for the acquisition of the Water Solutions, Paper Solutions and Alumina Compounds businesses of BK Giulini GmbH of Germany and its affiliates (BKG), and Kurita Europe APW GmbH (KEAG), an…
The Lubrizol Corp. (Wickliffe, Ohio; www.lubrizol.com) has acquired EcoQuimica Industria e Comercio Produtos Quimica Ltda., a manufacturer and supplier of coatings technology for products sold into decorative paints, textiles, cement, elastomeric coatings and paper coatings. Headquartered in Paulínia, a municipality…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has agreed to sell its German-based refrigerant business and pharma propellants to Daikin in Japan, as its Special Chemicals Global Business Unit is gearing its activities towards selective high value-added segments in fluorine specialties and…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) has started up a new facility for producing thiochemicals. The thiochemicals platform, which came onstream in Kerteh, Malaysia at the beginning of 2015, produces methyl mercaptan for use as a synthesis intermediate in animal feed and…
EnPro AS has awarded Pöyry Oyj (Vantaa, both Finland; www.poyry.fi) with the basic engineering assignment for a soda-ash manufacturing plant to be located in Kollsnes, Norway. Pöyry's scope of work includes basic engineering services for the integral plant operations including…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has invested in Nanocomp Oy Ltd. (Lehmo, Finland) and now holds a minority share in the company. It was made as part of an investment syndicate with Finnvera Venture Capital. The investment sum was…