Royal DSM (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) has concluded the acquisition of the outstanding 49% of shares in its DSM-AGI joint venture (JV), thereby gaining sole ownership of the Taiwan-based supplier of innovative, high-quality and environmentally friendly UV-curable resins and other…
Genomatica (San Diego, Calif.; www.genomatica.com) announced its latest innovation, the GENO BG process, a new bio-based process technology to make a naturally sourced 1,3-butylene glycol. The GENO BG process has already produced bio-based butylene glycol for sampling and Genomatica has…
Johnson Matthey (JM; London, www.matthey.com) announced the opening of a new state-of-the-art ceramic 3D printing facility in Royston, U.K. Currently, JM produces bespoke ceramic products with flexible geometries and feature sizes down to just 400 µm. This 3D printing process…
Aemetis, Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.; www.aemetis.com) announced that after successfully completing the construction and commencement of an Integrated Demonstration Unit, the company is now producing cellulosic ethanol from orchard waste, utilizing technologies from Aemetis, LanzaTech and InEnTec. The plant is a…
Airgas (Radnor, Pa.; www.airgas.com), an Air Liquide company, announced that it has signed an agreement with Hudson Technologies, Inc. to sell Airgas-Refrigerants, Inc. (ARI), its subsidiary specializing in the distribution, packaging and reclamation of refrigerant gases. The transaction is said…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced that the Ma’aden Wa’ad Al-Shamal Phosphate Company’s (MWSPC) Umm Wu’al Phosphate Project in Saudi Arabia has started production of ammonia, merchant-grade acid and fertilizer. Fluor is providing overall program management services for this $8-billion…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.’s (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) proprietary EUROCLAUS sulfur recovery technology was selected by Tüpraş for its new sulfur recovery units that will be installed in the company’s Izmit, Izmir and Kirikkale refineries in Turkey. Jacobs’ EUROCLAUS sulfur recovery…
INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany; www.ineos-styrolution.com) announced plans to increase its compounding capacity for engineering plastics by an additional 34,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) at its Moxi plant located in Gujarat, India. Expected for completion in 2019, this expansion will…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) signed a Master Services Agreement (MSA) expansion amendment with Chevron Products Company (Chevron) to provide elective construction management (CM) services on an as-needed basis at the company’s refineries located in El Segundo and…
Clough AMEC, a 50/50 joint venture (JV) between Clough and Amec Foster Wheeler (London, www.amecfw.com) based in Australia, has won a landmark contract to provide maintenance services to ammonia facilities in Western Australia that supply international and domestic fertilizer markets…