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Lanxess to divest its chrome chemicals business
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is selling its chrome chemicals business to Brother Enterprises, a Chinese leather chemicals producer. Both companies on August 12, 2019 signed a respective agreement. The transaction is still subject to approval by the relevant antitrust…
McDermott awarded FEED contract for PetroLogistics’ new PDH plant
McDermott International, Inc. (Houston; www.mcdermott.com) announced it has been awarded a sizeable contract by PetroLogistics ll LLC to perform the front-end engineering design (FEED) services for a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) facility planned for the U.S. Gulf Coast. Under the scope…
Ecolab acquires cleaning solutions provider Chemstar
Ecolab Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.; www.ecolab.com) has acquired the business of privately held Chemstar Corporation, a U.S.-based supplier of food safety and cleaning and sanitizing solutions focused on the grocery and food retail markets. Chemstar and its Sterilox Fresh product…
Ineos breaks ground on Bayport ASA plant
INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany; www.ineos-styrolution.com) hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for its new ASA (acrylonitrile styrene acrylate) plant in Bayport, Texas. The development of the new site is part of a bigger expansion plan for the Americas, which includes increased ABS…
ABB appoints Sandvik CEO Björn Rosengren to lead company
The Board of ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) has unanimously appointed Björn Rosengren, as Chief Executive Officer. He will join ABB on February 1, 2020 and succeed CEO, Peter Voser, in this role on March 1, 2020. At that time Peter…
Linde partners with CarbonCure to accelerate global carbon-capture adoption
CarbonCure Technologies (Dartmouth, N.S., Canada; www.carboncure.com), and Linde (www.linde.com) have partnered to introduce the award-winning CarbonCure Technology to Europe, Southeast Asia and Oceania. The alliance will allow CarbonCure to accelerate international adoption of CarbonCure’s turnkey carbon solution for the concrete…
Halix Starts Operational Production with New cGMP Facility
Halix B.V. (Leiden, the Netherlands; www.halix.nl), a contract development and manufacturing organization of clinical and commercial proteins and viral products, announced today that it has met its major milestone with the interim delivery of a new 6,700-m2 cGMP facility in…
Indorama to acquire Huntsman’s integrated oxides and derivatives businesses
Indorama Ventures Public Co. Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indoramaventures.com) has announced the acquisition of Huntsman Corp.’s (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.huntsman.com) integrated oxides and derivatives businesses. The purchase price is based on an enterprise value of $2.0 billion and up to…
Sonatrach-Total JV selects LyondellBasell polypropylene technology
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that Sonatrach Total Entreprise Polymères Spa (STEP), a joint venture (JV) between Sonatrach and TOTAL S.A, has selected LyondellBasell’s Spheripol technology for a 550,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) polypropylene unit to be constructed…
KBR acquires isomerization technologies from RRT Global
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced that it has acquired isomerization technologies from RRT Global that will enable KBR to offer expanded octane and clean fuel technology solutions to customers. KBR, in alliance with RRT Global, has been offering MAX-ISOM catalytic…