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Air Products acquires Air Liquide’s industrial gases business in the U.A.E. and Bahrain

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced that it has acquired from Air Liquide the following businesses: Air Liquide Emirates for Industrial Gases LLC (ALEMIR) and Orca Industrial Gases LLC, which includes liquid bulk, packaged gases and specialty gases of Air…

KBR awarded technology contracts in Taiwan

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a contract for its ROSE supercritical Solvent De-Asphalting (SDA) technology and Vacuum Distillation Unit (VDU) from Taiwan's state-owned oil company, CPC Corporation. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide…

ADM invests in expanded soybean-processing capabilities in Germany

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (ADM; Chicago) announced a growth investment to add the ability to process non-GMO soybeans at its oilseed facility in Mainz, Germany.  "A key pillar of our growth strategy is our expanding portfolio of differentiated products, which are powering…

ArcelorMittal acquires majority stake in voestalpine’s HBI facility in Texas

ArcelorMittal has signed an agreement to acquire an 80% shareholding in voestalpine’s world-class Hot Briquetted Iron (HBI) plant located in Corpus Christi, Texas. voestalpine will retain the remaining 20%. The transaction values the Corpus Christi operations at $1 billion and…

MilliporeSigma acquires automated bioreactor-sampling platform from Lonza

MilliporeSigma, the U.S. and Canada life science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany a leading science and technology company,announced the acquisition of MAST (Modular Automated Sampling Technology) platform from Lonza AG (Basel, Switzerland). The MAST platform is an automated, aseptic…

Röhm announces further investment in capacity expansion for Plexiglas molding compounds

Following the expansion of production facilities for PLEXIGLAS molding compounds in Worms (Germany) and Shanghai (China), Röhm (Darmstadt, Germany)  is further driving the growth of the company by the additional expansion of capacities for impact-resistant PLEXIGLAS, the brand polymethyl methacrylate…

Bentley Systems acquires ADINA to extend nonlinear simulation portfolio

Bentley Systems, Inc. (Exton, Pa.), the infrastructure engineering software company, tannounced it has acquired Watertown, Massachusetts-based ADINA R & D Inc., a leading developer of finite element analysis software applications used in a comprehensively diverse range of engineering fields (adina.com).…

Versalis to license ABS process technology for new plant in Dongying, China

Versalis S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese), Eni’s chemical company, has agreed to license its proprietary continuous mass technology to Shandong Eco Chemical Co. Ltd, a Chinese company part of Shandong Haike Holding Ltd. The license will be granted for a 210,000-ton/yr…

LyondellBasell supplying high-pressure PE process technology for Zhejiang Petroleum & Chemical Co.

LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced that Zhejiang Petroleum & Chemical Co. Ltd. (ZPC) will license again the LyondellBasell high-pressure polyethylene (PE) technology at their facility located in Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province, P.R. of China. The Lupotech process technology will be…

AGC to expand synthetic pharmaceuticals production base in Spain

AGC Inc. (Tokyo) has decided to expand the facilities of Spain-based subsidiary AGC Pharma Chemicals Europe S.L.U., which is engaged in the synthetic pharmaceuticals sector. A new building with a total floor area of 7,500 ㎡ will be constructed on…