A Midwest chemical plant serving the automotive and OEM market needed to replace an aging carbon steel horizontal cylinder bulk storage tank with a new stainless steel vertical cylinder tank. The customer needed an overfill protection solution for the tank…
Endress+Hauser non-contact radar measures level in corrosive chemical tanks A U.S. water treatment plant operating at 85 MGD capacity was in need of accurate and reliable level measurement for chemical tanks with product density variations due to temperature changes, without…
3M (St. Paul, Minn.; www.3m.com) has entered into an agreement to sell the assets of its temporary protective films business to Pregis LLC. 3M’s temporary protective films business is a provider of adhesive-backed temporary protective films used in a broad…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has completed the divestiture of certain U.S. assets to Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc. (www.mathesongas.com) first announced on June 24, 2016, and cleared by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a decision published on September 1, 2016. This…
SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) has entered into a share purchase agreement to divest its Polymershapes distribution business to Blackfriars Corp., a privately-held investment company. The transaction remains subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to be completed during…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has achieved mechanical completion on a citral facility and associated infrastructure for BASF Petronas Chemicals in Kuantan, Malaysia. As part of the Integrated Aroma Ingredients Complex, Fluor performed front-end engineering and design, engineering, procurement and…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will set up an additional production line for Ultrason polyarylsulfone at its site in Yeosu, Korea. The new line will start up at the end of 2017, adding a production capacity of 6,000 metric tons…
Tesoro Corp. (San Antonio, Tex; www.tsocorp.com) has agreed to acquire Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisc. ; www.virent.com), an innovative renewable fuels and chemicals company, to support Virent's success in bringing biofuels technology to commercial scale. Tesoro's renewable fuels strategy is to…
Solvay SA (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has started hydrogen peroxide production at its new plant in Zhenjiang, China. This plant has a capacity of 60,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) and will meet the growing local customer demand for high quality…
Zachry Group (San Antonio, Tex.; www.zachrygroup.com) has acquired Catalyst Services from Clean Harbors, the leading provider of environmental, energy and industrial services throughout North America. Catalyst Services is an international industry leader in catalyst change-out services, with a particular expertise…