Technip Energies (Paris) and TÜV Rheinland have signed a strategic alliance to offer Project Management Consulting Services to clients in the infrastructure, energy, chemicals and mining & metals industries. The 5-year alliance will leverage the two companies’ strengths as world…
Lonza Specialty Ingredients (LSI), the former chemicals arm of Lonza AG (Basel, Switzerland), has rebranded the company as Arxada. The new name follows the Company’s launch as an independent business in July 2021, after the completion of the sale of…
Lummus Technology (Houston), and its catalysts partner, Clariant Catalyts, announced another major contract award in India that will expand their global share of the PDH market. GAIL (India) Limited has selected Lummus Technology's CATOFIN process and Clariant's tailor-made catalysts for…
Teijin Ltd. (Toyko) announced that its carbon fiber subsidiary Renegade Materials Corp., a leading U.S.-based supplier of highly heat-resistant thermoset prepregs, resins and adhesives for the aerospace industry, will expand its prepreg production approximately 2.5-fold. The increased capacity, which aligns…
McDermott International Inc. (Houston) has signed a Letter of Guarantee to deliver engineering and procurement for the ethylene cracker of the Gas Chemical Complex (GCC) project—the largest polyethylene integration project in the world—with China National Chemical Engineering and Construction Corp.…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) has expanded its production capacity for organic dispersions used for heat sealing applications. Since the beginning of August, a significantly expanded plant at the Darmstadt site has been supplying additional material. The specialty chemicals company…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) is expanding its production capacity for light-color aminic antioxidants at its Taiwan site by several kilo tons. The specialty chemicals company is investing an upper single-digit million Euro amount to expand its facility in response to…
Milliken & Co. (Spartanburg, S.C.) has formally acquired Encapsys, LLC, a world leader in microencapsulation, from the Cypress Performance Group LLC (“Cypress”). The transaction officially closed October 18, 2021. “Moving the needle on sustainability requires big thinking and powerful collaborations.…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) announced several investment efforts to advance its work to develop the next-generation of solid-state electrolytes for batteries. On the ground, investments started with the opening earlier this year of a dry room laboratory in Solvay’s research center near…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland) announced the official completion of its sunliquid cellulosic ethanol plant in Podari, Romania. The completed construction is an important next step for the commercial deployment of sunliquid technology and thus supports Clariant’s sunliquid licensing business strategy. The…