Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has officially opened a new production line to manufacture surface-treated fumed silica under the Aerosil brand name. The new line will be located at Evonik’s Rheinfelden, Germany site, which will boost their global production…
The Linde Group (Pullach, Germany; www.linde.com) is set to build a new air-separation unit in the eastern German town of Eisenhüttenstadt, near Frankfurt an der Oder. Around EUR 85 million will be channelled into the plant, which will supply the…
M+W Group (Stuttgart, Germany; www.mwgroup.net), one of the world’s leading high-tech engineering and construction companies, has been awarded a major order from Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany; www.merckgroup.com) for its new pharmaceutical facility in China. The site, with around 40,000 m2,…
BASF India Ltd. today inaugurated its large-scale chemical production complex at Dahej in Gujarat, India. With a project cost of INR 1,000 crore (approximately €150 million), the site represents BASF’s single largest investment in India. The site was jointly inaugurated…
Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) plans to partner with Neste Oil and Veolia in a joint venture (JV) to modernize and operate the power plant in the Kilpilahti petrochemical cluster in Porvoo, Finland. Designed to meet demanding European emissions requirements,…
Neste Jacobs Oy (Porvoo, Finland; www.nestejacobs.com) has been chosen as the engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) contractor to design and implement the new biopropane production process at Neste Oil's Rotterdam refinery. Neste Oil and Neste Jacobs have together developed…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) has opened an Engineering Project Center for its North America operations, in Louisville, Ky. The new facility provides project management and engineeering services for current and future capital projects, said Kenneth Golder, Clairant’s head of the…
Shale-gas-driven investment in the U.S. by chemical companies continues to expand, according to records maintained by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). The current list of chemistry industry projects totals 208, up from 188 in July. The cumulative…
In addition to its production capacity of about 10,000 metric tons/year (m.t./yr) out of the Cassano, Italy Biosuccinium plant, Reverdia (Geleen, the Netherlands; www.reverdia.com) has announced at the European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology (EFIB) that it is now licensing Biosuccinium. …
The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) has signed a definitive agreement with ExxonMobil Chemical Co. (Houston; www.exxonmobilchemical.com) regarding an ownership restructure of Univation Technologies, LLC. Currently a 50/50 joint venture (JV), Univation Technologies is the licensor of Unipol Polyethylene…