Americhem, Inc. (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; www.americhem.com) is expanding operations at its Suzhou, China, plant with a new, state-of-the-art extrusion line for soft polymer compounding. This is the second expansion in three years for the facility located in Suzhou Industrial Park,…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has received the full notice to proceed for the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) of Anglo American’s Quellaveco copper project in the Moquegua region in the south of Peru. Fluor will book the undisclosed…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced that it has been awarded a license and engineering and a proprietary equipment supply contract by China Pingmei Shenma Group (PMSM) to build two new polycarbonate plants in Kaifeng and Pingdingshan in the Henan Province…
MOL Group (Budapest, Hungary: www.mol.hu and APK AG (www.apk.ag) signed a strategic cooperation agreement yesterday in Merseburg, Germany. As a first step in the cooperation MOL will support the completion of APK’s Merseburg plant. The plant will serve as a…
pH is a critical parameter in many aspects of production: from setting the conditions for a reaction to happen, to the management of the reaction’s process quality, and from sustaining process equipment integrity, to avoiding environmental pollution and health…
Ascend Performance Materials, LLC (Houston; www.ascendmaterials.com) announced the purchase of Britannia Techno Polymer (BTP), an engineering plastics compounder based in the Netherlands. The acquisition provides Ascend with a leading engineering plastics manufacturing base in Europe and an expansion to its…
Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indoramaventures.com) announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Sorepla Industrie S.A., a plastics recycler in France. Founded in 1991, Sorepla Industrie is one of the largest recyclers in Europe.…
INVISTA (Wichita, Kan.; www.invista.com) has begun work to bring its latest adiponitrile (ADN) technology to China to satisfy the strong, local demand for the nylon 6,6 intermediate chemical. Engineering for a new plant with a minimum production capacity of 300,000…
Specialty chemicals group Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) plans to sell its remaining 50% stake in Arlanxeo (Maastricht, the Netherlands; www.arlanexeo.com) to its joint-venture (JV) partner Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.saudiaramco.com). The two companies, which founded Arlanxeo in 2016…
Nuberg EPC (New Delhi, India; www.nuberg.in) has been awarded a $53 million turnkey project contract by Middle East Chemicals Company Ltd. (Midchem; Saudi Arabia). The exclusive agreement covers EPC & LSTK services and solutions for a chlor-alkali plant and a…