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Bayer MaterialScience inaugurates TDI plant in Dormagen

Bayer MaterialScience AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.materialscience.bayer.de) has successfully concluded a major capital expenditure project in Germany. The company brought an ultra-efficient and resource-conserving world-scale plant for the production of the chemical toluene diisocyanate (TDI), a main component in high-quality foams,…

Solvay to acquire Brazilian specialty-esters manufacturer Dhaymers

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announced that it is acquiring Dhaymers, a Brazilian manufacturer of specialty esters, entering the skincare market and expanding its presence in industrial lubricants and mining industries in Latin America.            …

Air Liquide breaks ground on new ASU in Texas

Air Liquide’s (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) Large Industries U.S. LP group hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for a new air-separation unit (ASU) that will produce oxygen, nitrogen and argon at its production facility in Port Neches, Tex. The new ASU will produce…

Total Energy Ventures invests in Solidia’s sustainable cement technology

Total Energy Ventures (TEV), the venture capital arm of Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com), is investing in Solidia Technologies (Piscataway, N.J.; www.solidiatech.com), which has developed a process that uses carbon dioxide to manufacture sustainable cement and concrete.   Solidia has…

Rivertop Renewables to build first commercial plant

Rivertop Renewables (Missoula, Mont.; www.rivertop.com) has begun construction of its first commercial plant, located at DanChem Technologies, Inc.’s (DTI, www.danchemtechnology.com) facility in Danville, Virginia. DTI, a custom manufacturer of fine and specialty chemical products, is expected to begin production of…

Outotec to revamp, upgrade copper smelter and sulfuric acid plant in Chile  

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been awarded a contract to revamp and upgrade the Potrerillos copper smelter and sulfuric acid plant of Codelco Salvador Division in northern Chile, in order to comply with the new Chilean environmental regulations that…

Indorama to acquire manufacturing operations from Performance Fibers Asia

Indorama Ventures Public Co. Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indorama.net) has announced the acquisition of all Asian manufacturing operations of Performance Fibers Asia (PF Asia) and the right to continue using the name Performance Fibers. IVL will acquire PF Asia from…

BASF starts up emulsion polymers plant in Freeport, Tex.

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) started operations in a new emulsion polymers plant at its integrated Verbund site in Freeport, Tex. The acrylic emulsion polymers manufactured at this new plant are used for architectural coatings, construction chemicals, adhesives and applications…

LanzaTech secures $60 million in funding from New Zealand investors

The New Zealand (NZ) Superannuation Fund has made a $60-million equity investment in leading gas-fermentation company LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.; www.lanzatech.com).  Founded in New Zealand in 2005, and now headquartered in in the U.S., LanzaTech turns waste gas from steel mills…

A. Schulman to double masterbatches capacity in Dongguan

A. Schulman, Inc. (Akron, Ohio; www.aschulman.com) has added equipment in its manufacturing facility in Dongguan, China to accommodate increasing demand in the company's Masterbatch Solutions business. This new production line, which the company expects will ramp up in volume over the next…