Momentive Performance Materials Inc. (Waterford, N.Y.; www.momentive.com) has acquired the operating assets of Sea Lion Technology, Inc., located in Texas City, Texas. Sea Lion is a contract chemical manufacturer that has worked with Momentive to produce silane products, including NXT…
Effective Jan. 1, 2017, B&P Process Equipment and Systems LLC and B&P Littleford Day LLC, both producers of industrial-grade equipment for mixing and separation, merged to form B&P Littleford LLC (Saginaw, Mich.; www.bplittleford.com). The new company offers a wide range…
PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk (CAP; Jakarta, Indonesia; www.chandra-asri.com) through its subsidiary, PT Petrokimia Butadiene Indonesia (PBI), has awarded a engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services contract to Toyo Engineering Korea Limited (Toyo-Korea) and PT Inti Karya Persada Tehnik (IKPT)…
thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG’s (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) subsidiary Uhde Inventa-Fischer is to build a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plant for SASA Polyester Sanayi A.Ş in Adana, Turkey. The contract was signed in July 2016 and came into effect in December. With…
Praxair Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has signed a longterm contract to supply hydrogen to Marathon Petroleum Corp.’s refinery in Garyville, Louisiana. The company will use the hydrogen to support an ultra-low-sulfur diesel project planned for 2018. Marathon Petroleum is the…
The American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) reported that U.S. specialty chemicals market volumes rose 0.3 percent in December. This follows an upwardly revised 0.5 percent gain in November. Volumes have generally been moving up since May. All changes…
Solvay SA (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announced the creation of a joint venture (JV) with Marubeni Europe plc, a division of Japan-based Marubeni Corp., and turbine supplier Ansaldo Energia to invest in an energy-efficiency project at Solvay’s facility in Rosignano, Italy.…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has completed a capacity increase of its methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) production facilities at the company´s Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium. The capacity increase brings the annual production of MDI in Antwerp from 560,000 to…
Shell (The Hague, the Netherlands; www.shell.com) and Sabic (Riyadh, Saudia Arabia; www.sabic.com) have signed an agreement whereby Sabic will acquire Shell’s 50% share in the petrochemicals Sadaf joint venture (JV), located in Jubail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for $820 million.…
The preliminary value for the November CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) experienced a jump from the previous month’s value, due largely to fresh data on carbon-steel plates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that pushed the…