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, 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…
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, 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 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 (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 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…
Ineos (London) announced that Ineos Nitriles intends to invest in a world-scale acetonitrile production facility at their key operating site in Köln, Germany. The facility will have a production capacity of 15,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr). Acetonitrile is a…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has won an ammonia technology contract from DL E&C for NeuRizer's (formerly Leigh Creek Energy Ltd) carbon-neutral fertilizer project in Australia. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide technology licensing and engineering…
Abengoa SA (Seville, Spain) announced the inauguration of the Rabigh desalination plant, the largest reverse-osmosis (RO) desalination plant in commercial operation in the world, with a capacity of 600,000 m3/day. The CEO of Abengoa Agua y Energía, Ángel Alday, highlighted…