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Invista considering $500 million hydrogen and ammonia manufacturing plant in Texas
Invista (Wichita, Kan.; www.invista.com) announced that it is considering a new, combined hydrogen and anhydrous ammonia manufacturing unit—valued at more than $500 million—within the existing footprint of the company’s nylon intermediates production facility in Victoria, Texas. If approved, the unit would…
Endress+Hauser expands U.S. production
Endress+Hauser (Switzerland; www.endress.com) is set to serve its customers in North and South Americawith more US-made products. The Swiss specialist for measurement engineering and process automation has invested over $40 million in expanding its plants for flow, level and pressure…
B&V and Ostara to build nutrient-recovery system for world’s largest water-reclamation plant
The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) has selected Black & Veatch (B&V; Overland Park, Kan.; www.bv.com) and Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies Inc. (Ostara; Vancouver, B.C., Canada; www.ostara.com) to design and build a new nutrient recovery system at its…
Sibur and BASF sign long-term agreement for polymer additives
Sibur (Moscow, www.sibur.com) and German chemicals giant BASF have signed a Long-Term Cooperation Memorandum to supply additives used for polymer production and processing at Sibur’s production facilities. The deal provides for supplies of additives used to produce polypropylene, polyethylene, synthetic…
Green Biologics to acquire Minnestoa-based ethanol producer
Green Biologics, Inc. (Gahanna, Ohio; www.greenbiologics.com), a technology developer and emerging bio-based chemicals, and Central MN Ethanol Co-op (CMEC; www.centralmnethanol.com), an ethanol producer in Little Falls, Minn., have announced that Green Biologics, Inc. has entered into an exclusive letter of…
Weltec Biopower and Domaix Energie partner on four new biogas plants in France
Biogas plant manufacturer Weltec Biopower GmbH (Vechta, Germany; www.weltec-biopower.com) has partnered with French company Domaix Energie to roll out four agricultural biogas plant projects in France. Apart from agricultural substrates, the biogas plants, whose construction has already started, will use…
K-Tron to operate under the Coperion K-Tron brand
K-Tron (Pitman, N.J.; www.ktron.com) , a global leader in feeding, dosing and pneumatic-conveying equipment and systems, will operate under the brand name Coperion K-Tron. Coperion (Stuttgart, Germany; www.coperion.com) was acquired by U.S.-based Hillenbrand, Inc. (www.Hillenbrand.com) in December 2012. K-Tron has…
BASF to produce paper-coating binders at its Hamina site
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) now produces its new cost-efficient binders (CEBs) based on styrene-acrylics and styrene butadiene at its site in Hamina, Finland. Since 2012, the successful product line has already been supplied primarily to customers in Central Europe…
Evonik forms joint venture with Secar for lightweight composites
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) and Secar Technologie GmbH (Hönigsberg, Austria) have established the LiteCon Advanced Composite Products joint venture on September 4. The aim of the newly established enterprise is to mass-produce fiber-reinforced composite components for the automotive…
Praxair India expands growth with small on-site plants
Praxair India Private Limited, a subsidiary of Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has signed two long-term contracts with JSW Steel, to operate small on-site nitrogen plants in support of the company’s expansion efforts in the cities of Kalameshwar and Tarapur,…