BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has acquired the private company Rolic AG (Allschwil, Switzerland). Both companies have agreed not to disclose financial details of the transaction. The transaction includes Rolic’s affiliates in Allschwil, Eindhoven, the Netherlands and Shanghai, China. Regulatory…
Everest Sciences Corp. (Tulsa, Okla.; www.everestsciences.com) announced today it received an order for, and has shipped and achieved successful operations of the CleanChill cooling system at Cherokee Nitrogen of Cherokee, Alabama. This is the second order from LSB Industries Inc.’…
WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) has been selected to provide engineering, procurement, construction management (EPCM) and fabrication services for Chevron’s Salt Lake Refinery Retrofit Project in Salt Lake City, Utah. The EPCM contract (valued at approximately $67 million) is…
Evonik Industries (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.con) opened a new Coating Additives laboratory at its Tuzla (Istanbul) site on January 31, 2017. The state-of-the-art laboratory, which also includes a customer service center, will support customers with the development of innovative surface coatings…
Air Products (LeHigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) recently installed an advanced nitrogen supply system at Boeing’s new 777X Composite Wing Center in Everett, Washington. The nitrogen will be supplied to the world’s largest autoclave, where it will create the inert atmosphere…
Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzer.com) has completed the acquisition of Ensival Moret (EM), a part of Moret Industries. Sulzer will immediately start to integrate EM in its Pumps Equipment division. Combining the complementary product portfolios enables Sulzer to become a…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is setting itself up for the digital future with its own new subsidiary, Evonik Digital GmbH, which includes a team of about 20 experts. Under the Evonik umbrella, the company is developing new digital…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced today that Guinea Alumina Corporation S.A. (GAC) has awarded Fluor an engineering and program management consultancy contract for a major bauxite mine in the Boké region of Guinea, Africa. Fluor booked the approximately $700-million…
Solvay SA (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) and United Chemical Company LLP (UCC) have jointly started to examine the construction of new hydrogen peroxide capacity to supply hydrogen peroxide primarily to address the needs of Kazakh companies and customers in other Central…
The Chemours Co. (Wilmington, Del.; www.chemours.com) has broken ground on the company's new HFO-1234yf production facility. The new facility, located at the Chemours Corpus Christi plant in Ingleside, Texas, will triple the company's world-leading capacity for its HFO-1234yf-based-products, which are…