Messer (Bad Soden/Frankfurt, Germany; www.messergroup.com) announced that it has invested a total of 2.85 million euros in two new production facilities in Bulgaria and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Both of them have now gone into operation. In the Bulgarian village of Katunitsa, Messer…
Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) announced that Executive Vice President Alfred Stern, currently responsible for the Polyolefin Business and Innovation, has been appointed as CEO effective July 2, 2018. Current CEO of Borealis, Mark Garrett has decided to leave the…
ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) is to invest €100 million in Austria to build a state-of-the-art innovation and training campus at the home of B&R in Eggelsberg, Upper Austria. The new research and development campus will cover 35,000 m² and be…
Compañía Española de Petróleos S.A.U. (Cepsa; Madrid, Spain; www.cepsa.com) announced plans to implement a new upgrade project to expand production at its Puente Mayorga Chemical Plant in San Roque (Cadiz). The revamping process covers the installation of Detal technology, co-licensed…
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland; www.kemira.com) will make a multi-million euro investment to expand production at its Joutseno chlor-alkali site in Finland. The production capacity will be expanded to ensure Kemira’s ability to address the growing need for sodium hydroxide in…
ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing LLC, a company of ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.exxonmobil.com) announced an agreement with Sinochem Hongrun Petrochemical Co. Limited, to license ExxonMobil’s Flexicoking Technology to build a resid upgrading unit at Sinochem Hongrun’s High-End Chemical Park located…
Axalta (Philadelphia, Pa.; www.axalta.com) inaugurated its new coating manufacturing plant at Savli, Vadodara in Gujarat, India. Approximately 70 guests, including local government officials, customers, university representatives, media, and employees attended the opening ceremony, which Axalta Chairman and CEO Charlie Shaver…
Alfa Laval AB (Lund, Sweden; www.alfalaval.com) has signed an agreement to sell its commercial tubular heat exchanger business, currently part of the Greenhouse division, to the BITZER Group. The closing of the agreement is expected on May 1, 2018. The…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) and Huntsman (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.huntsman.com) jointly gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony held at the site of what will be Air Products’ new steam methane reformer (SMR) and cold box in Geismar, Louisiana. Air…
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland; www.kemira.com) has signed a multiyear agreement with Chevron North Sea Ltd. for the supply of polymers for Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (CEOR). On the back of this agreement, Kemira initiated an expansion of its polymer capacity…