The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) says that its subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG), has signed a definitive agreement to acquire industrial processes solutions provider MEGTEC based on an enterprise value of…
Clariant (Munich, Germany; www.clariant.com) says that its Catofin catalyst will be used in a new grassroots iso-butane dehydrogenation unit commissioned by Shandong Chengtai Chemical Industry Co. CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded the contract for the license and…
The JPMorgan Global Manufacturing PMI (purchasing manager’s index) slipped 0.5 points to 51.9, signaling that the upturn in the global manufacturing sector continued to ease at the start of the second quarter, according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic…
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland; www.kemira.com) has been selected as a supplier of sodium chlorate to Klabin's new 1.5 million metric ton pulp mill in Paraná, Brazil. Sodium chlorate is used as a component in the bleaching process, an important process…
Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi-global.com) are planning to cooperate in the metallurgical industry and are forming a globally operating complete provider for plants, products and services for the iron, steel and aluminum…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Yara (Osöo, Norway; www.yara.com) have made good progress with their plan to jointly build a world-scale ammonia plant on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The proposed plant would be located at the existing BASF site…
Ineos Technologies (Rolle, Switzerland; www.ineos.com) has licensed its Innovene PP Process for the manufacture of homopolymers, random and impact copolymers and its Innovene G Process for the manufacture of linear-low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE) to Xinjiang Bangyou Chemical…
UOP LLC, a Honeywell (Morristown, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) company, has announced that its technologies have been selected to produce key ingredients for fuels and synthetic rubber in China. China's Lijin Petrochemical Plant Co. will use Honeywell's UOP C4 Oleflex process…
Eni S.p.A. (Rome; www.eni.it) has signed an agreement with oil-and-gas company MOL Group (Budapest, Hungary; www.mol.hu/en) for the sale of its 32.445% stake in ÄŒeská Rafinérská a.s. (CRC), a refining company in the Czech Republic. The transfer is subject to…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has doubled capacity of its non-phthalate plasticizer Hexamoll DINCH from 100,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) to 200,000 m.t./yr at its site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. With a second Hexamoll DINCH plant, BASF will satisfy growing…