Asahi Glass Co. (AGC; Tokyo; www.agc.com) has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of CMC Biologics, a world-leading biologics Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (“API”) manufacturer with major investors including Monitor Clipper Partners and European Equity Partners, for…
Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzer.com) signed a binding agreement to acquire Wärtsilä’s Vessel Internal Electrostatic Coalescer (VIEC) business. The VIEC business is based in Asker, Norway. VIEC’s patented technology separates oil from water in a highly efficient manner and it…
Linde AG (Munich, Germany; www.the-linde-group.com) and Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) announced that the companies intend to combine in a merger of equals under a new holding company through an all-stock transaction. The companies have signed a non-binding term sheet…
Wacker Biosolutions, the life sciences and biotechnology division of the Wacker Group (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com), is acquiring a large-scale fermentation plant from Antibióticos de León SLU (ADL) in Spain. Today, the two companies announced the signing of the contract of…
Sound levels in a plant or in a lab are often high enough to be distracting, and sometimes they are high enough to create health and safety concerns for workers in the immediate area. We've published a noise level calculator…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced that Chevron (China) Chemicals Co. (Chevron Oronite) has selected Fluor to perform front-end engineering and design (FEED) work for a manufacturing facility in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract value in the…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafwen, Germany; www.basf.com) is planning its first manufacturing plant in Myanmar in 2017. Subject to Myanmar regulatory approvals, the plant to be located in Myanmar’s commercial capital, Yangon, will be designed to produce tailor-made construction chemical solutions for…
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo, Japan; www.sdk.co.jp) and SK Materials Co., Ltd. (SKM; www.sk-materials.com), of South Korea, has concluded an agreement to establish a joint corporation which is to produce and sell high-purity monofluoromethane gas (CH3F) to be used in…
Solvay SA (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has completed the sale of its Neolor business to the Baotou Hongbo Te Technology Co. (HBT), as its Special Chem Global Business Unit (GBU) is refocusing its activities on selective high value-added segments in the…
thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) has supplied and recently commissioned Egypt’s largest nitrogen fertilizer complex (photo). It is located in the Damietta free trade zone, some 160 km north-east of Cairo, and will be operated by the Egyptian…