Entegris, Inc. (Billerica, Mass.) announced the opening of a state-of-the-art facility located in Southern Taiwan’s Kaohsiung Science Park. The new facility delivers critical solutions designed to solve a range of challenges facing chipmakers. The company expects to invest a total of…
Fujifilm Corp. (Tokyo) announced that the company has broken ground on a new €30-million expansion at its electronic materials manufacturing site in Belgium, Fujifilm Electronic Materials (Europe) N.V., to grow semiconductor materials manufacturing capabilities in Europe. This marks one of…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced it will build, own and operate two new world-scale carbon monoxide (CO) production facilities in Texas. The facilities in La Porte and Texas City will produce a combined over 70 million standard cubic feet…
Fujifilm Corp. (Tokyo) announced that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the semiconductor high purity process chemicals (HPPC) business, CMC Materials KMG Corporation (KMG), from Entegris, Inc. (Billerica, Mass.) for $700 million. Through the acquisition of…
Hexcel Corp. (Stamford, Conn.) announced the grand opening of a completed expansion at its engineered core operations plant in Morocco to meet the growing demand for lightweight advanced composite materials for the aerospace industry. The 13,000-square-meter expansion in the Midparc…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a contract by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) to implement its market-leading supercritical solvent deasphalting (SDA) technology, ROSE, at HPCL's Mumbai Refinery. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide…
Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has been awarded an order for key concentrator plant equipment by Zijin Mining Group for their Julong copper project in the Tibetan Autonomous region. The value of the order is approximately EUR 85 million, of which…
American Carbonyl, LLC announced the acquisition of Ashland Global Holdings Inc.’s (Wilmington, Del.) Carbonyl Iron Manufacturing assets and business lines. With this acquisition, American Carbonyl continues a long history of manufacturing Carbonyl Iron Micropowders and Iron Pentacarbonyl at the historic…
Lummus Technology (Houston) and Texplore Co., Ltd. (Texplore), a wholly owned subsidiary of SCG Chemicals plc (SCGC; Bangkok, Thailand), announced a commercial cooperation agreement to license and market EXCENE, Texplore's high-density polyethylene (HDPE) technology. Leadership from both companies recently participated…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) has acquired 100% of the shares of contract manufacturing company (CMO) ADL BioPharma. The shares were purchased from Kartesia, a financial investor with whom WACKER signed a corresponding agreement finalizing the transaction last week. Following…