Lummus Technology (Houston) announced an integrated technology award from Bayegan. Bayegan will license Lummus' CATOFIN technology for a new 450,000-ton/yr propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit and Lummus' Novolen technology for a new 450,000-ton/yr polypropylene (PP) unit. The units will be located…
The Surface Treatment global business unit of BASF’s Coatings division, operating under the Chemetall brand, celebrated the opening of its new Global Aluminum Competence Center in Giussano, Italy. The state-of-the-art facility will strengthen Chemetall’s position as a global supplier of…
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) announced that its designed ebullated-bed residue hydrocracking (H-Oil) unit and distillates hydrocracking (HyKTM) unit and Naphtha Hydrotreating (NHT) unit were successfully started at Shenghong Refining & Chemical (Lianyungang) Co. Ltd.’s crude to para-xylene complex in China’s province…
GEA Group (Düsseldorf, Germany) is investing €18 million ($20 million) in a technology center for alternative proteins in Wisconsin, U.S. The new food tech hub will pilot microbial, cell-based and plant-based foods. GEA's state-of-the-art technologies and a team of biotechnology…
Henkel AG (Düsseldorf, Germany) has signed an agreement to acquire the U.S.-based Seal for Life Industries LLC from Arsenal Capital Partners (USA). Seal for Life is a specialized supplier of protective coating and sealing solutions in a broad variety of…
Verde Clean Fuels, Inc. (Houston) and Cottonmouth Ventures LLC, a subsidiary of Diamondback Energy, announced that the parties have executed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) for the proposed development, construction, and operation of a facility to produce commodity-grade gasoline utilizing…
W.R. Grace & Co (Grace; Columbia, Md.) announced that China Coal Shaanxi Energy & Chemical Group Co., Ltd. (China Coal Shaanxi Company) has expanded its license for Grace’s UNIPOL PP process technology, doubling its polypropylene production capacity from 300,000 to…
AkzoNobel N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) announced that a major capacity expansion has been completed at the company's Powder Coatings site in Como, Italy, which will help secure supply to customers across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Four new manufacturing…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that in late 2023, it started the process to divest its shares in the two joint venture companies BASF Markor Chemical Manufacturing (Xinjiang) Co., Ltd. and Markor Meiou Chemical (Xinjiang) Co., Ltd. in Korla, China.…
Baker Hughes (Houston) and Dussur, a firm owned by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF), Saudi Aramco and SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries Corporation), formally inaugurated on Sunday the previously announced joint venture (JV) chemicals manufacturing facility focused on providing oilfield…