Intergraph Corp. (Huntsville, Ala.; www.intergraph.com) has released SmartPlant Fusion 2014, the latest version of its breakthrough solution for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) companies and plant operators to rapidly find, capture, organize, link and visualize large volumes of information through…
Mitsui Chemicals Inc. (MCI; Tokyo; www.mitsuichem.com) and Fuso Chemical Co. (Osaka, Japan; www.fusokk.co.jp) have announced that MCI will transfer its organic acids business to Fuso. The business include production capacity at the Kashima Works facility in Kamisu City, Japan, consisting…
Data from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD; Paris; www.oecd.org) composite leading indicator(CLI) for March show divergence, depending on the region, according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.;…
Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) and Lockheed Martin (Bethesda, Md.; www.lockheedmartin.com) have announced the launching of a partnership to explore the establishment of a new joint venture (JV) company in Saudi Arabia to develop carbon nanostructure…
Celanese Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.celanese.com), a global technology and specialty materials company, has announced that it will expand its manufacturing capabilities at its Florence, Kentucky, facility to add compounding process lines to support the continued customer demand for its advanced…
Asahi Kasei’s (Tokyo, Japan; www.asahi-kasei.co.jp) Fibers division will expand production capacity for polypropylene spunbond nonwovens in Thailand at its subsidiary Asahi Kasei Spunbond (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (AKST). AKST will add a new production line of 20,000 metric tons per year…
Following a successful test phase and promising market analysis, Bayer MaterialScience AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.materialscience.bayer.de) plans to invest €15 million in the construction of a production line at its Dormagen site, which will use CO2 to produce a precursor for…
Invista (Wichita, Kan.; www.invista.com) and LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.; www.lanzatech.com) have signed a research and development agreement focused on the development of gas-fermentation process technology for the production of industrial chemicals from carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas (CO2 and H2) feedstocks.…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been awarded a contract to build a large chemical complex for Turkmengas, in collaboration with Hyundai Engineering Co., Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co., and LG International Corp.of Korea. The complex, Toyo’s first project…
NanoH2O (Los Angeles, Calif.; www.nanoh2o.com), a manufacturer of reverse-osmosis (RO) membranes for seawater desalination, announced that it has been acquired by LG Chem (Seoul, South Korea; www.lgchem.com). The sale was finalized April 30, 2014. "We are extremely pleased to…