BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Solvay SA (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) have signed an agreement related to the sale of Solvay’s integrated polyamide business to BASF. The purchase price on a cash and debt-free basis would be €1.6 billion. According…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) invests in another production plant for specialty zeolites at its Ludwigshafen, Germany, headquarters site. These specialty zeolites will be used to produce state-of-the-art emissions catalysts for heavy-duty and light-duty diesel vehicles. Due to an increasingly…
Honeywell says that its UOP Russell business (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) will provide a turn-key cryogenic gas processing plant to Cureton Midstream, LLC (Denver, Colo). The new plant is designed to extract 99% of ethane and 100% of propane from…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) has been selected by Aerie Pharmaceuticals Inc. to provide engineering, procurement and construction management services (EPCM) for Aerie’s first pharmaceutical-manufacturing facility, located in the Industrial Development Authority (IDA)’s advanced technology building in Athlone,…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has been awarded the oxygen supply for the new production facility of LG Chem (LGC), Korea’s number one chemical company and one of the largest chemical companies in the world. Air Products will supply…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) and Enviral, a.s. (Leopoldov; Slovakia; www.enviral.sk), the largest producer of bioethanol in Slovakia, today announced that they have signed a license agreement on sunliquid cellulosic ethanol technology (www.sunliquid.com). Enviral has acquired a license to use Clariant’s…
The new 1.8-million metric ton per year (m.t./yr) Midrex hot briquetted iron (HBI) plant at Lebedinsky Mining and Processing Integrated Works (LGOK), in Gubkin Russia, has announced the completion of its performance guarantee test (PGT). The plant, Midrex HBI-3, was…
Sinar Mas Cepsa, a wholly-owned joint venture (JV) between Compañía Española de Petróleos S.A.U. (Cepsa; Madrid, Spain; www.cepsa.com) and vertically integrated palm-oil company Golden Agri-Resources (GAR), inaugurated its first oleochemicals plant in Indonesia (photo), which represents an investment of €300…
Kaneka Eurogentec S.A., a Belgium-based subsidiary of Kaneka Corp. (Osaka, Japan; www.kaneka.co.jp), has approved the construction of a new state of-the-art GMP facility adjacent to its current facility in Seraing, Belgium that will be equipped with a 2,200-L fermenter. The expansion…
Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (Sabic; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) announced the inauguration of a new polypropylene (PP) pilot plant in Geleen, the Netherlands, and a new investment in a state-of-the-art PP extrusion facility to be built at the same location.…