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McDermott awarded FEED contract for Viva Energy Australia’s Geelong Refinery project

McDermott International, Inc. (Houston) has been awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract from Viva Energy Australia as part of its Geelong Refinery project to provide additional desulfurization capabilities. The award follows the successful completion of the Pre-FEED activity and…

Henkel completes new adhesives plant in Incheon

Henkel Korea has announced the completion of its state-of-the-art Songdo Plant within the Songdo High-tech Industrial Cluster in Incheon, which will become the Asia-Pacific production hub for high-impact electronics solutions of the Adhesive Technologies business unit. Henkel Korea signed a…

BASF starts up new fuel-performance additives plant in Shanghai

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has started producing fuel performance additives at its Pudong site in Shanghai, China. The new plant addresses the increasing regional demand for fuel performance additives and brings greater supply security and flexibility to customers in Asia.…

Ineos to acquire Mitsui Chemicals’ phenols business in Singapore

INEOS Phenol has today announced that it has agreed to acquire the entire asset base of Mitsui Phenols Singapore Ltd from Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) for a total consideration of $330 million. The business has a turnover of $750 million…

SK Geo Centric and SABIC to jointly build POE production plants in Ulsan

SK Geo Centric (Seoul, South Korea) will partner with Saudi Arabia’s global chemical company SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)  for a joint investment related to the the construction and expansion of high-value chemical products plants with specific focus on polyolefin elastomer…

Arxada investing to expand Visp production site

Arxada (Basel, Switzerland), a global leader in specialty chemicals, announced the extension of its long-term collaboration with Royal DSM N.V. (Herleen, the Netherlands) for the supply of niacin and a range of other nutritional ingredients from Arxada’s facility in Visp,…

PPG invests $20 million in expansion projects in Mexico and the U.S.

PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.) has announced a pair of investments totaling $20 million that will greatly expand its production capabilities in North America. Firstly, PPG announced that it will invest $11 million to double the production capacity of its powder coatings…

Shell Catalysts & Technologies and Braskem extend partnership

Leaders from Braskem S.A. (São Paulo, Brazil) and Shell Catalysts & Technologies (SC&T) met at Shell’s research center in Amsterdam recently to participate in a technical exchange. During the meeting, SC&T and Braskem agreed to extend their 15-year relationship for an…

Metso Outotec expands minerals processing and testing capabilities in the U.S.

Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has consolidated its minerals testing services in the USA into a single 5,500sqm facility located in York, Pennsylvania. The Test Center capabilities will be continuously developed with the goal of covering the full minerals value…

Thermo Fisher Scientific opens new viral-vector manufacturing plant

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, Mass.) expanded its cell and gene therapy capabilities with the opening of its new previously announced viral vector manufacturing facility in Plainville, Mass. The 300,000 square foot, state-of-the-art site will add approximately 300 jobs to support the…