Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) recently signed a contract with Barrick Goldstrike that extends its long-standing agreement to operate and maintain Barrick’s oxygen plant in Elko, Nevada. In addition to running the Barrick plant, Air Products plans to install…
Oxiteno’s (São Paulo, Brazil; www.oxiteno.com) new alkoxylation plant in Pasadena, Texas approaches its final phase of completion and is scheduled to startup in the beginning of 2018. With 170,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of capacity, the new unit utilizes…
Indorama Ventures Public Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indorama.net) has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire DuPont Teijin Films (DTF), a leading global producer of Biaxially-oriented Polyethylene Terephthalate (BOPET) and Polyethylene Naphthalate (PEN) films with total film/polymer…
Royal DSM (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) announced that it has increased capacity with the addition of the DSM-AGI Taiwan facility for production of UV curable coatings for its fiber optic materials business. This expansion allows the business to meet increased…
Sadara Chemical Co. (Jubail, Saudi Arabia; www.sadara.com), which recently announced commercial operations of the full chemical complex in Jubail Industrial City II, has appointed Faisal Al-Faqeer of Saudi Aramco as the new Chief Executive Officer. Consistent with this appointment, Dr.…
As part of its global expansion strategy, Songwon Industrial Ltd. (Ulsan, South Korea; www.songwon.com) has commissioned a second thermoplastic urethane (TPU) production line, to become operational in the fourth quarter of 2017. The company’s plant in Suwon, South Korea will…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was selected by LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) to perform the engineering and procurement for its propylene oxide (PO) and tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA) project located at its Channelview and Bayport complexes outside of Houston.…
AkzoNobel’s (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) Specialty Chemicals business has completed the expansion of a production site in Denmark which supplies essential pharmaceutical grade salt for the healthcare industry. Located in Mariager, the products supplied by the facility are used as…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels Belgium; www.solvay.com) is expanding its global production capacity in sulfone polymers in India and the United States to address significant demand growth from mainly the medical and water treatment industries for this high-performance thermoplastic material. As part…
GE (Boston, Mass.; www.ge.com) announced today it completed the closing of the sale of GE Water & Process Technologies to SUEZ (Paris, France; www.suez.com) for $3.4 billion on September 30, 2017. “The sale of GE Water & Process Technologies is…