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Altana sells stake in 3D-printing systems company dp polar

Altana AG (Wesel, Germany) announced the sale of its stake in the 3D-printing systems manufacturer dp polar, to 3D Systems, a leading Additive Manufacturing solutions partner, that has brought the innovation of 3D printing to the manufacturing industry more than…

Stamicarbon selected as licensor for new urea plant in Africa

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy), through its innovation and license company Stamicarbon, has been selected as the licensor for a urea project in Sub-Saharan Africa. This will be the first urea production facility in the Sub-Saharan Africa. Stamicarbon will deliver…

Stratasys signs agreement to acquire Covestro’s additive manufacturing materials business

Stratasys Ltd. (Eden Prairie, Minn.), a leader in polymer 3D printing solutions, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the additive manufacturing materials business of Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany). The acquisition is expected to be immediately accretive…

Wood to provide engineering services for Strike Energy fertilizer project in Western Australia

Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland), the global consulting and engineering company, has been appointed as owner’s engineer for the delivery of Project Haber, Strike Energy’s $3-billion, 1.4 million ton-yr urea fertilizer production facility to be built in Western Australia. This state-of-the-art…

McDermott and KBR enter global licensing agreement for ammonia

McDermott International, Inc (Houston) and KBR, Inc. (Houston) have entered into a global licensing agreement to provide integrated solutions for KBR's proprietary ammonia technologies. Ammonia produced from renewable or low-carbon sources, commonly referred to as green and blue ammonia, supports global…

Ube to acquire API Corp. from Mitsubishi Chemical

UBE Corp. (Tokyo) has agreed to acquire all shares of API Corp. (APIC), wholly owned by Life Science Institute, Inc., a company of The Mitsubishi Chemical Group(MCG), and signed a share transfer agreement. APIC was established in October 2002 through…

Thermo Fisher to expand manufacturing capacity for dry powder media in New York

To meet increasing global demand for cell culture media used in the manufacturing of new vaccines and biologics, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, Mass.) has expanded its dry-powder-media manufacturing facility in Grand Island, New York. With this expansion, the Grand…

BASF announces U.S. capacity expansion for specialty pyrrolidones

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has announced that it will produce more N-(2-Hydroxyethyl)-2-Pyrrolidone (HEP) and N-Octyl-2-Pyrrolidone (NOP) at its Geismar, Louisiana, Verbund site. The production is anticipated to be on-stream in the second half of 2022 and will ensure a global…

Tosoh to increase production capacity for separation and purification media

Tosoh Corp. (Tokyo) has announced it will increase the production capacity of separation and purification media TOYOPEARL and TSKgel PW at its Nanyo Complex (Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture) in response to the growing demand for antibody and oligonucleotide drug purification.…

BASF expands coatings site in South China

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that BASF Coatings (Guangdong) Co., Ltd. (BCG) has expanded the production capacity of automotive refinish coatings at its coatings site in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province in South China. With the completion of the expansion in July…