John Crane (Chicago, Ill.; www.johncrane.com), a global provider of rotating equipment solutions, recently announced that as of June 13, the company finalized its purchase of Seebach GmbH, a German-based provider of highly engineered filtration solutions for use in polymer, oil…
Tata Chemicals Ltd. (TCL; Mumbai, India; www.tatachemicals.com) completed the acquisition of the Silica business from Allied Silica. Earlier this year, the company had entered into a Business Transfer Agreement with Allied Silica Limited to acquire their business of precipitated silica…
Sandvik's business unit Sandvik Materials Technology (www.materials.sandvik) has signed an agreement to divest its stainless wire business to Zapp Group, a German family-owned leading supplier of advanced metal products. This completes the full scope of the divestment plan for the…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced that it has been working on the Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) to double the sulfur derivatives production capacities at Arkema's Beaumont,Texas site. KBR has been leading the FEED from its Houston Operations Center…
Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.covestro.com) is planning to build its own chlorine production plant in Tarragona (Spain) and will use a particularly sustainable process: oxygen-depolarized cathode (ODC) technology, that consumes around a quarter less energy than the conventional method. At…
Indorama Ventures Public Co. Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indoramaventures.com) announced that it has entered into a joint venture agreement with Dhunseri Petrochem Ltd. (Dhunseri) to acquire its Egyptian Indian Polyester Company S.A.E. (EIPET) Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) facility located in Ain…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com), through its local subsidiary in Saudi Arabia, Jacobs ZATE, has been awarded a three-year, general engineering services (GES) contract from Yanbu Aramco Sinopec Refining Company Ltd. (YASREF) to help optimize the production at…
North Kingstown, Rhode Island—(June 20, 2018) Toray Plastics (America), Inc. (North Kingstown, Rhode Island; www.toraypta.com) has completed a two-year, $40 million expansion at its PEF Division in Front Royal, Virginia. The company officially launched a new extrusion line, a new…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com), a world leader in specialty chemicals, today announced the official opening of two new, fully-owned additives facilities at its site in Zhenjiang, China. This completes a multi-million CHF investment originally announced last year and puts Clariant’s…
AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has broken ground for a demonstration plant to showcase a revolutionary and more sustainable technology platform for producing ethylene amines and their derivatives from ethylene oxide. Located at its Stenungsund site in Sweden,…