Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has recently received multiple, long-term supply awards from semiconductor and flat panel display manufacturers in China as the country’s electronics manufacturing industry continues to boom. Industrial gases supply contracts awarded to Air Products over…
Hexcel Corp. (Stamford, Conn.; www.hexcel.com) announced that it has entered into exclusive negotiations to acquire all of the shares of Structil SA, a French producer and supplier of high-performance composites to the aerospace, defense and industrial markets. The proposed transaction…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) announced that Susan Ellerbusch has been appointed chief executive officer of Air Liquide USA LLC, a U.S. subsidiary of Air Liquide, the global leader in gases, technologies and services for industry and health. Ellerbusch will…
Endress+Hauser (Reinach, Switzerland; www.endress.com) has expanded its production facilities in the United States. The Raman analyzer manufacturing plant in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was extended at a cost of $9 million. In Greenwood, Indiana, the company has built a new $8-million…
Tesoro Corp. (San Antonio, Tex.; www.tsocorp.com) and Tesoro Logistics LP announced that the companies will change their names to Andeavor and Andeavor Logistics LP, respectively, on Aug. 1, 2017. The companies also unveiled new logos and ticker symbols. "We are…
Sandvik AB (Stockholm, Sweden; www.sandvik.com) has signed an agreement to divest Sandvik Process Systems to FAM AB, owned by the three largest Wallenberg foundations, at a price of 5.0 billion SEK. Sandvik Process Systems delivers advanced industrial process solutions based…
Sadara Chemical Co. (Jubail, Saudi Arabia; www.sadara.com) announced the production of commercial quantities of on-specification liquid polymeric methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (PMDI), the largest single train facility of its kind in the world. PMDI, which is used in the production of…
Owens Corning (Toledo, Ohio; www.owenscorning.com) announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Pittsburgh Corning, a leading producer of cellular glass insulation systems for commercial and industrial markets. Upon closing, the company will pay approximately $560 million in cash,…
The American Chemistry Council’s (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) Global Chemical Production Regional Index (Global CPRI) shows that global chemicals production rose 0.1 percent in April after a revised flat performance in March, as measured on a three-month moving average (3MMA)…
BASF SE (Lugwigshafen, German; www.basf.com) and Sinopec will expand the capacity of existing propionic acid production with an additional 30,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) at their state-of-the-art Verbund site, BASF-YPC Company Limited, a 50-50 joint venture (JV) in Nanjing,…