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LG Chem to spin off batteries business

LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) announced that it has resolved a corporate spin-off plan focused on its battery business to raise corporate and stockholder value. Accordingly, LG Chem plans to receive approval from the extraordinary meeting of stockholders on…

SUEZ divests selected assets related to recycling and wastewater

SUEZ (Paris, France) and PreZero, the environmental division of Schwarz Group, have signed an agreement to enter into exclusive negotiations for the sale of SUEZ Recycling & Recovery operations - excluding plastic recycling and hazardous waste treatment activities - in…

Sandvik’s titanium powders plant now certified for medical 3d-printing applications

 Sandvik’s new powder plant in Sweden has recently received the ‘ISO 13485:2016’ medical certification for Osprey titanium powders, now approved for use in the additive manufacturing of medical applications. 3D printing of implants enables rapid manufacturing directly from an individual’s…

Fluor achieves mechanical completion of Valvoline lubricants plant in China

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced that it has achieved mechanical completion of Valvoline’s new lubricants facility in Zhangjiagang, China, ahead of schedule. Fluor’s scope of work on the project included detailed engineering, procurement and construction management executed under a lump-sum…

Axens will supply alpha-olefins production technology to Baltic Chemical Plant

 Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) signed an agreement Baltic Chemical Plant LLC (BCP) and JSC RusGazDobycha subsidiary for the supply of alpha-olefins production technology for the construction of a gas chemical complex as part of an ethane-containing gas processing complex on the…

UOP process technologies selected for refinery upgrade in Uzbekistan

Honeywell (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that Bukhara Refinery LLC, a subsidiary of JSC Uzbekneftegaz, will use UOP technology to increase crude oil conversion and produce cleaner-burning Euro-V standard gasoline and diesel fuel in compliance with the government of Uzbekistan’s stricter specifications…

Shell contracts ABB to help expand blending capabilities at Jakarta lube-oil plant

ABB (Zurich, Switzerland) announced that its specialized process engineering company in France, Cellier Activity, has been awarded the contract to install new blending technologies and a process control system at Shell’s Marunda Lube Oil Blending Plant (LOBP) in Jakarta, in…

Bostik inaugurates a new industrial adhesives plant in Japan

Arkema S.A. (Colombes, France) announces the start-up of a new world-scale industrial adhesives plant in Japan. Those new capacities will enable Bostik to serve its Japanese customers in the continuously growing markets of diapers, hygiene, packaging, labeling, transportation and electronics.…

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