Lhyfe (Paris) has announced plans to develop a green hydrogen industrial production and distribution site in Montoir-de-Bretagne (Loire-Atlantique). The call for proposals for the Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port, which was launched on 21 November 2022, concerned the provision of land located…
Repsol Butano entered into an agreement with ABB, Inc. (Zurich, Switzerland) to upgrade its Distributed Control Systems (DCS) at 12 of the energy company’s butane factories across Spain. The 18 month-long migration project was executed in a systematic manner, with…
TechnipFMC plc (Paris) announced an agreement to sell the company’s Measurement Solutions business to One Equity Partners for $205 million in cash, subject to customary adjustments at the closing of the transaction. As part of the Surface Technologies segment, the…
Röhm (Darmstadt, Germany) announced that its Acrylic Products business unit and SABIC's (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) Functional Forms business unit are going to be merged to form a new firm called Polyvantis. Polyvantis will be a new global player in the…
Veolia S.A. (Paris) announced the signature of an agreement for the acquisition by NGE, an independent public works group, of SADE-CGTH, its wholly-owned subsidiary specializing in the construction and rehabilitation of water and infrastructure networks. The amount of the sale,…
Veolia S.A. (Paris) and Vendée Eau inaugurated France's first unit for reusing treated wastewater to produce drinking water as part of the Jourdain programme. This solution will provide an additional resource of 1.5 million m3 of drinking water over the…
Sika AG (Baar, Switzerland) announced plans to to invest in its polymer production at its Sealy site in Texas. This latest move marks Sika's second polymer investment in the state of Texas in five years. Polymers are chemical building blocks…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has announced the expansion of defoamer capacity at its Dilovasi plant in Turkey. The new production line increases the company’s capacity on site, allowing a better response to rising demand for high-performance Foamaster and Foamstar products…
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) announced a significant capacity extension of its ferric sulfate water treatment chemicals production line in Goole, U.K. The additional 70,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) capacity investment helps meet the growing demand for coagulants due to…
Orion S.A. (Luxembourg) celebrated the completion of its first greenfield project – a carbon black plant in eastern China that will supply fast-growing demand in Asia. The facility in the city of Huaibei in Anhui province will produce carbon black…