Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo, Japan; www.sdk.co.jp) announced that Hideo Ichikawa will resign as president and CEO to become representative director and chairman of the board of the company, and that Kohei Morikawa, director, managing corporate officer and chief technology…
Ashland Inc. (Covington, Ky.; www.ashland.com) started up a new production line in Nanjing, China to manufacture polymer excipients for China’s pharmaceutical industry. Demand for polymer excipients, the substances formulated alongside the active ingredients of medications, is rising in China as…
Pepperl+Fuchs GmbH (Mannheim, Germany; www.pepperl-fuchs.com), a globally leading company in explosion protection by intrinsic safety and in industrial sensors, announced the acquisition of ecom instruments GmbH (Assamstadt, Germany; www.ecom-ex.com), the world market leader for mobile industrial devices for hazardous areas.…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) announced today it has moved its headquarters from Pasadena, California to Dallas, expanding its current footprint in downtown Dallas’ Harwood Center. Pasadena served as Jacobs’ headquarters since it was founded by Joseph J.…
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:BW) announced today that its subsidiary, The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) and its consortium partner, Saulsbury Industries, Inc., have been awarded a contract for more than $90 million to engineer, procure…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) says that ICA Fluor, its industrial engineering and construction joint venture with Empresas ICA, S.A.B. de C.V. (www.ir.ica.mx), was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management contract by Minas de La Alta Pimeria S.A. de…
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo, Japan; www.sdk.co.jp) agreed with SGL Carbon SE, a carbon and graphite product manufacturer headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, that SDK will acquire SGL GE Holding GmbH, which engages in the graphite electrode business, from SGL Carbon…
Solvay SA (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) is building a Technyl polyamide compounding unit in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, with initial annual capacity of 10,000 metric tons (m.t.). This new facility is expected to become operational in the third quarter of 2017…
Sumitomo Chemical has decided to merge its three Singapore-based subsidiaries: Sumitomo Chemical Asia Pte Ltd., which engages in the manufacturing and sales of petrochemical products; Sumitomo Chemical Singapore Pte Ltd., which engages in the manufacturing and sales of methyl methacrylate…
The Specialty Chemicals Market Volume Index, a tool created by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), showed that U.S. specialty chemicals market volumes rose 0.3 percent in September. This follows a revised 0.1 percent gain in August and…