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Air Products starts up gases plant in Guangdong province

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced that it has started up another new oxygen and nitrogen plant in the Guangdong province in South China. The plant further enhances the company’s production capacity and supply position in this important industrial…

IDEC has acquired HMI manufacturer APEM

IDEC Corp. (Osaka, Japan; www.idec.com), a leading manufacturer of industrial automation and control devices, announces the recent acquisition of APEM (www.apem.com). Together, IDEC and APEM are now one of the world’s largest manufacturers of human machine interface (HMI) components, panels…

Air Liquide to build nitrogen plant at plastics complex in Oman

Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) and Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic), Oman’s national refining company, recently signed a longterm agreement for the supply of nitrogen to the Liwa Plastics Industries Complex (LPIC), a new plastics production complex that…

Victrex acquires PEEK fiber manufacturer Zyex

Victrex plc (Thornton Cleveleys, U.K.; www.victrex.com) announced that it has acquired Zyex (Stonehouse, U.K.), a recognized global leader in the manufacture of PEEK (polyetheretherketone) based fibers, principally for the aerospace, automotive, and industrial markets. The move further enables Victrex to…

Atlas Copco acquires Brazilian compressor manufacturer

Atlas Copco (Stockholm, Sweden; www.atlascopco.com) has agreed to acquire Pressure Compressores Ltda., a Brazilian manufacturer of piston compressors and related equipment. Pressure Compressores is based in Maringá in the state of Parana, Brazil. The company offers a broad range of piston…

ExxonMobil Chemical announces global expansion plans for hydrocarbon fluid assets

ExxonMobil Chemical Co. (www.exxonmobilchemical.com), a division of Exxon Mobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.exxonmobil.com), recently announced that it is expanding the capacity of its global hydrocarbon fluid assets by more than 250,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) at its world-scale petrochemical…

Cepsa expands production of linear alkylbenzene in Brazil

Compañía Española de Petróleos S.A.U. (Cepsa; Madrid, Spain; www.cepsa.com) has completed a revamping project to expand production at its Deten Química plant in Brazil. The revamping process allows it to increase the plant’s production capacity up to 260,000 metric tons…

GEA provides global solutions to oil-and-gas processors

GEA AG (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.gea.com) is reaching new horizons with several state-of-the-art projects in the oil-and-gas market. Expanded and strong global presence of GEA in this industry secured larger orders in the double-digit million Euro range in total in Oman,…

BP-DuPont JV Butamax acquires ethanol business and production plant in Kansas

Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC (www.butamax.com), a 50/50 joint venture (JV) between BP plc (London, U.K.; www.bp.com) and DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) formed to develop and commercialize bio-isobutanol as a next-generation renewable biofuel and chemical product, announced the acquisition of Nesika…

Flowserve to sell Gestra AG business to Spirax-Sarco

Flowserve Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.flowserve.com) announced it has entered into a conditional sale and purchase agreement to sell its Gestra AG business unit to Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc, for an enterprise value of €186 million. In addition to the product’s core…