Community groups in Texas and Louisiana and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have settled a lawsuit filed in May 2013 to compel EPA to review outdated and inaccurate formulas that are used to report the levels of toxic emissions…
Styron Europe GmbH (Horgen, Switzerland; www.styron.com), a materials company and manufacturer of plastics, latex and rubber, has announced plans to expand its latex capacity with a new reactor at its Zhangjiagang, China, production facility. This expansion will mainly support the…
Seasonal factors from an unusual winter across the country have likely skewed statistical reporting from government agencies despite attempts to adjust for them. Nonetheless, the pace of economic expansion continues to moderate from the fourth quarter of 2013, according to…
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland; www.kemira.com) will invest in an expansion of facilities and a new reactor capable of production of multipurpose chemicals at its Telêmaco Borba plant in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil. "With…
Royal Dutch Shell plc (The Hague, the Netherlands; www.shell.com) has announced that it has reached a binding agreement to sell its Australia downstream businesses (excluding Aviation) to The Vitol Group (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.vitol.com) for a total transaction value of…
NAES Corp. (Issaquah, Wash.; www.naes.com), a provider of industrial services, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire E3 Consulting, LLC, an independent technical and strategic business advisor to the energy industry. E3 is an advisor to the…
Toray Industries Inc. (Tokyo, Japan; www.toray.com) and Abunayyan Holding (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) have launched a joint venture (JV) for water- and wastewater-treatment technologies. The JV will be called Toray Membrane Middle East LLC (TMME). The projected investment for the JV,…
Milacron LLC (Cincinnati, Ohio; www.milacron.com), a provider of high-precision plastics processing technologies, has announced the acquisition of Kortec, a supplier of co-injection technology solutions to the packaging industry. This combination positions Milacron as a leading provider of fully integrated, turnkey…
KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) says that Eurochem will use KBR’s Purifier technology licensed through Tecnimont S.p.A. (Rome, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.com), in the design of two new ammonia plants located at Kingisepp near St. Petersburg and Nevinnomyssk in southern Russia. “Eurochem selected KBR’s…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell (NYSE: HON) company, announced that Ningbo Fortune Petrochemical Co., a Chinese petrochemical producer, has selected UOP’s C3 Oleflex process technology to convert propane to propylene, a high value monomer used in plastics…