Clay Naef Barbieri Ferris Kieny Specialty chemicals producer Lanxess (Cologne, Germany) names Matthias Zachert chairman of the board, and promotes Jorge Nogueira to head of the Performance Butadiene Rubbers business unit. The Sensors Div. of Honeywell Life Safety (Morris…
Albemarle Corp. (Baton Rouge, La.; www.albemarle.com) and ICL (Tel Aviv; www.icl-group.com) have announced that the two companies have entered into an agreement to establish a manufacturing joint venture (JV) for the production of ICL's FR-122P polymeric flame retardant and Albemarle's…
Specialty chemical market volumes rose 1.0% in July, following a 0.8% rise in June, according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). Of the 28 specialty chemical markets monitored…
Ultraviolet (UV) treatment specialist Hanovia (Slough, U.K.; www.hanovia.com) and the industrial division of its U.S. sister company Aquionics (Erlanger, Ky.; www.aquionics.com) have launched a new UV Application Center in Shanghai, China. Aquionics provides industrial UV technology to the Americas region,…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has inaugurated its new production plant for concrete admixtures in Nairobi, Kenya. The production site will allow BASF to better meet the increasing demand for construction chemicals of customers in Eastern Africa. There, BASF produces…
Producers of the 2015 Chem Show, which will be held in New York City, November 17-19, 2015, have announced that Chemical Engineering magazine (New York, N.Y.; www.chemengonline.com), published by Access Intelligence (Rockville, Md.; www.accessintel.com), has become a Media Partner and…
Novo Nordisk A/S (Bagsværd, Denmark; www.novonordisk.com) has announced the acquisition of a U.S. manufacturing facility in West Lebanon, N.H., from Olympus Biotech. The facility was established in 1989, expanded in 2003-2006 and acquired by Olympus Biotech in 2011. It has…
MOL plc (Budapest, Hungary; www.mol.hu/en) has selected Axens Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) to perform the revamping of its DMHCK unit (FCC feed hydrotreater and mild hydrocracking) at the Danube Refinery in Százhalombatta, Hungary. This revamping project consists in increasing vacuum…
The Chemical Activity Barometer (CAB), a leading economic indicator created by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), continued to see moderated upward growth in August, with a 0.2% gain over July, as measured on a three-month moving average…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) , a Honeywell company, has announced its commercial launch of an integrated bioreactor system to remove organic and inorganic contaminants from a wide range of industrial wastewater streams. Honeywell’s UOP XCeed bioreactor system,…