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Air Products to expand gas supply to Samsung’s Giheung semiconductor fab

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced it has been awarded by Samsung Electronics additional gaseous nitrogen and hydrogen supply to its semiconductor fab in Giheung, South Korea. Air Products, who has been supplying industrial gases to Samsung Electronics' Giheung…

Wison wins EPC contract for sulfur recovery project at Adnoc’s Ruwais refinery

Wison Engineering Services Co. Ltd. (Shanghai, China; www.wison.com) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Wison Energy Engineering (Hong Kong) Limited - Abu Dhabi was recently awarded an Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Commissioning and Start-Up (EPC) Works Project, to improve sulfur recovery…

Thermo Fisher to acquire bioprocessing business from BD

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, Mass.; www.thermofisher.com) has signed a definitive agreement with BD (Becton, Dickinson and Co.), a leading medical technology company, under which Thermo Fisher will acquire BD's Advanced Bioprocessing business. This business combines a strong technical services…

AkzoNobel and Photanol to build photosynthesis demonstration plant in Delfzijl

A demonstration plant for a groundbreaking technology to produce chemicals from sunlight will be built at Delfzijl, the Netherlands by AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) and partner firm Photanol BV. The companies formed a partnership in 2014 to…

MHI launches a new digital solution for factory energy management

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.com) has launched Energy Cloud Factory, a new service package that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT) technologies. The cutting-edge energy solution was unveiled today at Mitsubishi Hitachi Power…

ExxonMobil advances plans to construct new chemicals complex in Guangdong province

ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.exxonmobil.com) said that it has signed a cooperation framework agreement with the Guangdong Provincial People’s Government to advance discussions concerning the proposed construction of a chemical complex in the Huizhou Dayawan Petrochemical Industrial Park. The new…

Methanex to use Johnson Matthey process technology for new methanol plant

Johnson Matthey (London, U.K.; www.matthey.com) has been awarded a contract by Methanex to supply a license for a 5,000 metric-ton-per-day (m.t./d) ATR methanol technology project, including associated engineering, proprietary equipment and catalyst supply. This is for the proposed third Methanex…

Borouge to construct fifth polypropylene plant in Ruwais

Borouge (Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.; www.borouge.com) signed, with Marie Tecnimont Group (Milan, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.com), the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for its fifth polypropylene (PP5) plant in Ruwais, which will grow Borouge’s polypropylene capacity by 25% to 2.24 million metric…

Lanxess doubles production capacity for DMTD specialty additives

Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has commissioned a new production line at its Mannheim site for the synthesis of dimercaptothiadiazole (DMTD) derivatives. These chemicals are added to lubricants as multifunctional additives. The production line, which started in May 2018, doubles…

Atlas Copco acquires compressed-air specialist in Denmark

Atlas Copco AB (Stockholm, Sweden; www.atlascopcogroup.com) has acquired Reno A/S, a manufacturer and distributor of compressed air solutions. The company has a large equipment distribution and aftermarket network, and operates in several segments of the compressed air business.   Reno has…