Messer Group (Bad Soden, Germany; www.messergroup.com) opened its biggest CO2 recovery plant on the globe in Nanjing, China. This plant makes Messer China’s largest CO2 provider, according to the company. The plant has a capacity of 150,000 metric tone per…
Royal DSM (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) and Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) announced their intention to establish a joint venture (JV) for omega-3 fatty acid products from natural marine algae for animal nutrition. This breakthrough innovation will, for the…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is expanding the capacity of its silicon-metal site at Holla in Norway. The Munich-based chemical group is constructing an additional plant there, with world-scale annual capacity. Capital expenditures of around €85 million are budgeted…
Amec Foster Wheeler (London, U.K.; www.amecfw.com) announced the award of a five-year global Enterprise Framework Agreement (EFA) with Shell Global Solutions International, B.V. to provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for its downstream projects worldwide. The award marks…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) and Forward Engineering have established the joint venture Vestaro GmbH. With this project, the two companies intend to drive forward the implementation of composite solutions for the industrial mass production of fiber-composite components for…
Royal Dutch Shell plc (The Hague, the Netherlands; www.shell.com) announced the signing of binding definitive agreements between SOPC Holdings East LLC (a U.S. downstream subsidiary of Shell) and Saudi Refining Inc. (SRI) (a wholly owned subsidiary of Saudi Arabian Oil…
Compañía Española de Petróleos S.A.U. (Cepsa; Madrid, Spain; www.cepsa.com) has formalized the purchase offer for Abengoa’s biofuels plant in San Roque (Cádiz). The process concluded with Abengoa’s acceptance of Cepsa’s 8-million euro binding offer for the total purchase of the…
Norsk Hydro ASA (Oslo, Norway; www.hydro.com) has entered into an agreement with Yara International ASA (Oslo, Norway; www.yara.com) regarding the sale of Herøya Nett AS and the quay facility at Herøya Industrial park. The transfer, including around 30 employees, will…
Perstorp Holding AB (Malmö, Sweden; www.perstorp.com) today announces the sale of its additives activities primarily serving the paints and coatings industry produced at its facility at Gent Belgium, Perstorp Oxo Belgium AB to Synthomer plc. The total consideration for the…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) and its customer Libbey Inc. have been awarded a 2.3 million euro LIFE grant (LIFE15 CCM/NL/000121 – LIFE OPTIMELT) from the European Commission. The LIFE program is the European Union’s financial instrument for supporting environmental,…