Following a mixed year in 2017, the foundation is set for better performance by the U.S. chemical industry in 2018, according to the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC) Mid-Year 2018 Chemical Industry Situation and Outlook. Strong global growth prospects, rising exports,…
Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany; www.messergroup.com) opened a new competence center in Krefeld on 6 June 2018. It will serve as a hub for testing gas application technologies in the areas of Food, Industrial Cryogenic Applications, Cutting & Welding,…
To support the strong worldwide demand in ultra-high performing powders for industrial applications, in particular in the coatings, composite and 3D printing markets, Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) plans to expand its global production capacity at its Mont, France site. This…
INEOS Oxide (Rolle Switzerland; www.ineos.com) announced that, following a detailed study, it is moving forward with the next stage of its project to construct an Ethylene Oxide (EO) and Ethylene Oxide Derivatives (EOD) facility on the U.S. Gulf Coast. It…
Borealis (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) announced the inauguration of a Є15 million investment project in mtm plastics GmbH. Based in Niedergebra, Germany, mtm plastics GmbH is regarded as a technology leader in the recycling of mixed post-consumer plastic waste and as…
DuPont Safety & Construction, a business unit of DowDuPont’s (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) Specialty Products Division, announced plans to invest more than $400 million to expand capacity for the manufacture of Tyvek nonwoven materials at its facility in Luxembourg. The production…
Engineering and technology company Sener (www.engineeringandconstruction.sener) is putting into operation, on a multi-phase basis, the different components of the Noor Ouarzazate (Morocco) III solar thermal power plant. This plant is the second plant designed and built by Sener using its…
Dürr AG (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany; www.durr.com) is forming a leading supplier of environmental technology systems for industrial exhaust-air purification, following a corporate acquisition in the United States. The Group is acquiring the industrial environmental technology business of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises,…
Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.hitachi-chem.co.jp) and Wisconsin-based Silatronix, Inc. have entered into a licensing agreement concerning the manufacturing, sales and use of Silatronix’s patented organosilicon compounds for use as electrolyte materials. By combining electrolyte using Silatronix’s organosilicon compounds…
INEOS (Rolle, Switzerland; www.ineos.com) announces that it has launched a feasibility study as it plans to build a new world-scale Ethylidene norbornene (ENB) production unit. This would represent a second ENB asset for INEOS joining the existing production unit in…