Ube Industries, Ltd. (Ube; Tokyo, Japan; www.ube-ind.co.jp) has announced that its Thai subsidiary, UBE Fine Chemicals (Asia) Co., will open a production facility for polycarbonate diol (PCD) to meet rising global demand. The new facility is designed to manufacture 3,000…
Yokogawa Electric Corporation (Tokyo, Japan; www.yokogawa.com) has announced that it has signed a contract with Dell Inc. for the global provision of PC models that are selected and customized for Yokogawa use. Under this contract, which was signed on August…
Endress+Hauser (Reinach, Switzerland; www.endress.com) has inaugurated a new 80,000 square feet state-of-the-art Customer Center in Greenwood, Indiana. This $16-million investment in infrastructure helps to optimize customer support and further underscores Endress+Hauser’s commitment to the U.S. market and its loyal customers…
Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.; www.eastman.com) has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Taminco Corp. (Allentown, Pa.; www.taminco.com), under which Eastman will acquire Taminco, a global specialty chemical company. Under the terms of the agreement, Taminco stockholders…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, says that its Oleflex process technology has been selected to produce key ingredients to help meet the growing demand for fuel and petrochemicals in China. Shandong Shouguang Luqing Petrochemical Co. will…
Samsung Engineering Co. (Seoul, South Korea; www.samsungengineering.com) has received a contract from Pemex, a Mexican state-owned petroleum company, for the Pemex Salamanca ULSD Project. The project will be executed in two phases. Phase I will include detail engineering and procurement…
Specialty chemicals group Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is strengthening its production network in China to meet the high level of demand for iron oxide pigments and is adding a mixing and milling plant to the pigment plant already under…
Huber Engineered Materials (Atlanta, Ga.; www.hubermaterials.com), a division of J.M. Huber Corp., has increased capacity at its precipitated alumina trihydrate (ATH) plant in Bauxite, Ark. (U.S.) by 30%. “Huber has a longterm, multi-stage plan to incrementally increase capacity at…
KBR Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract by Fertial SpA to provide licensing and basic engineering design services to revamp Fertial’s Annaba and Arzew ammonia plants in Algeria. Under the terms of the contracts, KBR will supply Fertial…
WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) reached an agreement to acquire MTG, Ltd. (Houston; www.mgtl.com). MTG is a management-consulting firm in the oil and gas, petrochemicals and chemicals industries with operations in North America, the U.K. and Australia. Completion of…