DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with FMC Corp. (Philadelphia, Pa.; www.fmc.com) to divest a portion of DuPont’s Crop Protection business, including certain research and development capabilities, and to acquire substantially all of…
Eriez Manufacturing Co. (Erie, Pa.; www.eriez.com) has announced that it is jointly operating a pilot plant facility with Rio Tinto Kennecott Copper (RTKC) to increase recovery of base metals using Eriez Recovery Technology. Results indicate significant opportunities for additional recovery…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced that it has been awarded a substantial contract for the license, engineering design and catalyst supply for five proprietary technologies to be used in an integrated refining and petrochemical project in China. The complex…
Veolia (Paris, France; www.veolia.com) has just established a partnership with Carbon Clean Solutions Ltd. (CCSL; www.carboncleansolutions.com), the global leader in low-cost carbon capture technology, for the large-scale rollout of CCSL’s patented carbon dioxide (CO2) separation technology. The objective is to…
Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.asahi-kasei.co.jp) will increase production capacity for Hipore Li-ion battery (LIB) separator at its plant in Moriyama, Shiga, Japan, with startup scheduled in the first half of fiscal 2019. The company will invest approximately ¥15 billion…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has signed a definitive agreement to sell its polyolefin cross-linkable compounds business in Italy to family-owned group Finproject SpA. "Following Solvay’s transformation, polyolefin cross-linkable compounds no longer fit within the portfolio of high-performance specialty polymers.…
The American Chemistry Council’s (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) Global Chemical Production Regional Index (Global CPRI) shows that headline global production rose 0.3 percent in February, following a 0.5 percent gain in January, as measured on a three-month moving average (3MMA)…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is expanding the capacity of its global production network to safeguard customer supply in the long term. In Krefeld-Uerdingen, site of the world’s largest synthetic iron oxide pigment plant, production capacities for red and black…
Braskem (São Paulo, Brazil; www.braskem.com.br) officially inaugurated its Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE) production plant at its La Porte, Texas site. Braskem sells high-performance UHMWPE under the trade name UTEC, developed and produced through Braskem’s proprietary technologies. “We are…
GTC Technology (Houston; www.gtctech.com) has provided its low-temperature Isomalk-2 process technology for the successful startup of a light naphtha isomerization unit at the Bharat Petroleum Corporation, Ltd. (BPCL) refinery in Mumbai, India. The unit will produce an isomerate gasoline blend…