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Linde acquires U.S.-based gas distributor nexAir

Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) has acquired the remaining interests in nexAir, LLC, one of the largest independent packaged gas distributors in the United States with 2022 sales of approximately $400 million. Linde’s wholly owned subsidiary Linde Gas & Equipment Inc.…

Prayon finalizes acquisition of Febex phosphoric acid business from Arkema

Prayon S.A. (Engis, Belgium) announced the successful acquisition from Arkema SA (Colombes, France) of its shares in Febex, the European market leader for phosphoric acid in the electronics industry. With 97% of the shares held, Prayon becomes the majority shareholder…

Braskem bolsters 3D-printing portfolio with taulman3D acquisition

Braskem S.A. (São Paulo, Brazil;) announced the acquisition of taulman3D, a leading 3D filament supplier of nylon, recycled PETG, and PET filaments to aerospace, automotive, healthcare, industrial, government and higher education professionals worldwide. The acquisition of taulman3D is a perfect…

Chevron Lummus Global announces award for one of the world’s largest slurry hydrocracking units

Chevron Lummus Global LLC, (CLG) announced Shandong Yulong Petrochemical Co., Ltd. has selected EST, which CLG licenses, for a slurry residue hydrocracking unit in Shandong Province, China. The unit will produce naptha, diesel and vacuum gas oil once it is…

Black & Veatch to deliver desalination plant for world’s largest single-line copper smelter

PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) has appointed Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.) to design and manage the delivery of a seawater desalination plant for its Manyar Smelter in East Java, Indonesia, as part of its sustainable development commitments. The seawater…

Harvest Midstream to acquire Belle Chasse terminal facility in Louisiana from Phillips 66

Harvest Midstream Co.(Houston) announced an agreement with Phillips 66, Inc. (Houston) to purchase the Belle Chasse Terminal, formerly the Alliance Refinery located in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. The acquisition is expected to close in the First Quarter of 2023. In November…

Merck completes acquisition of Mecaro’s chemicals business

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, announced the closing of the transaction to acquire M Chemicals Inc., the company recently incorporated by Mecaro Co. Ltd. to operate its chemical business. Combining these two businesses is expected…

SABIC, OQ and KPI announce plans to establish a world-scale petrochemical complex in Duqm

SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), OQ and Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI) have signed a Project Development Agreement of a jointly owned petrochemical complex in the Special Economic Zone at Duqm (SEZAD), the Sultanate of Oman. The three companies aim to establish…

Showa Denko and KBR to license vinyl acetate monomer technology

Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo) has decided to license its technology to produce vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) to Asian Paints Limited, a leading paint and décor company in India , under a formal alliance agreement between SDK and KBR, Inc.…

Metso Outotec providing processing technologies for Albemarle LiOH plant in Western Australia

Albemarle Lithium Pty Ltd has awarded Metso Outotec Oy (Helsinki, Finland) an order for two pyro processing and comminution lines for their Kemerton lithium hydroxide processing plant in Western Australia. Previously, Metso Outotec has delivered two similar pyro process lines…