Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.) announced that Big West Oil has selected ISOALKY technology to produce alkylate used to make clean-burning motor fuels at its Salt Lake City refinery. The refiner is the second in North America to revamp its…
Oilon Group Oy (Lahti, Finland) celebrates the inauguration of a new production facility for industrial heat pumps in Kokkola, Finland. The new factory will quadruple Oilon’s production capacity of industrial heat pumps. “Large industrial-scale heat pumps are a very cost-efficient…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) will transfer its High Performance Materials (HPM) business unit to an independent legal corporate structure. HPM is one of the leading suppliers of high-performance plastics. The materials are used primarily in the automotive, electrical and electronics…
Petrofac Ltd. (St. Helier, U.K.) has been awarded with a new contract worth around MYR399 million (approx.. $96 million) by PETRONAS Carigali Sdn. Bhd., a subsidiary of PETRONAS (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the Malaysian National Oil Company. The Engineering, Procurement, Construction,…
Orion Engineered Carbons S.A. (Luxembourg) announced that next year the company will invest to convert a reactor line at its plant in Ivanhoe, La., from manufacturing soft carbon black to producing hard carbon black, commonly used in tire treads. “With…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced that its joint venture with Petrosea – Fluor Petrosea Joint Organization (FPJO) – has been selected by PT Freeport Indonesia to install a new grinding mill at its Grasberg copper and gold mining district in…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) is working with advanced manufacturing solution OEM 9T Labs AG (Zürich, Switzerland) to help bring additively manufactured carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) parts to mass production. The joint effort enables 9TLabs’ innovative additive manufacturing technology to produce…
Flint Hills Resources, LLC (Wichita, Kan.) will transfer its propylene business to Invista (Wichita, Kan.) with an anticipated effective date of Jan. 1, 2022. The move includes the Flint Hills Resources Houston and Longview, Texas, chemical facilities and support employees.…
Arxada (Basel, Switzerland) and Troy Corp. (Florham Park, N.J.), a global leader in microbial control solutions and performance additives, announced that they have entered into an agreement to combine the two companies. This agreement represents the first strategic deal by…
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) announced that it intends to divest a substantial portion of its Mobility & Materials segment. The Mobility & Materials segment is comprised of category-defining businesses with longstanding market-leading positions and differentiated products, technologies and capabilities to win…