Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) will construct a new manufacturing plant for active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and intermediates for small molecule drugs at its Oita Works (Oita City, Oita Prefecture, Japan). This project is to enhance the company’s capacity to…
PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.) announced that it has agreed to divest certain business activities in Senegal, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Gabon and Algeria to Océinde, an industrial group based in Réunion, France. Océinde will continue to offer the existing range of products,…
In October 2021, Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) announced that it had signed an agreement to sell its existing base oils business to Chevron Global Energy Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Chevron Corp. (San Ramon, Calif.). The transaction includes the…
Milliken & Co. (Spartanburg, S.C.) announced that it is expanding the facilities and capacity it acquired last March via its purchase of Germany’s Zebra-chem GmbH. Zebra-chem is a specialty compounder and chemicals company that makes additive and blowing agent concentrates for polyolefins,…
Ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) rubber is a terpolymer elastomer derived from ethylene and propylene, along with small amounts of a non-conjugated diene as a third monomer (Figure 1). With a completely saturated polymer backbone, this random elastomeric copolymer exhibits…
Solids-handling processes and downstream process steps can benefit greatly from carefully controlled particle characteristics. Presented here is guidance on how agitation agglomeration techniques can achieve desired particle properties Throughout the diverse sectors of the chemical process industries (CPI), the ability…
A rigorous and structured approach to determining the potential value of powder testing techniques in solids-handling applications can improve powder characterization and processing Many chemical process industries (CPI) sectors face growing pressure to measure and control powder properties more effectively,…
Baker Hughes (Houston) and Dussur, a firm owned by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF), Saudi Aramco and SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries Corporation), have signed an agreement to form a joint venture company (JV) focused on providing oilfield and…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has secured a contract from a leading midstream company for a world-scale olefins production facility to be built on the U.S. Gulf Coast. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide the license…
Casale SA (Lugano, Switzerland) signed a cooperation agreement with Uzbekistan-based companies Ferkensco Management Limited and Enter Engineering Pte to support the construction of an ammonia-based fertilizer plant in Uzbekistan. The agreement was signed at the Tashkent International Investment Forum. The…