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Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced that it was awarded a contract by Empresa Nacional del Petróleo (ENAP) for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of a new process unit at its Biobío refinery in Chile. Fluor booked the undisclosed…
MilliporeSigma (Billerica, Mass.; www.emdgroup.com) announced it has acquired BioControl Systems Inc., a global leader in food safety testing. The acquisition opens growth opportunities for MilliporeSigma in the food and beverage space, particularly in the U.S. Confidentiality has been agreed on…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) has been awarded by SOCAR GPC a service contract for the ethylene and cryomax technology licenses respectively for a petrochemical complex and for the NGL recovery section of a gas processing plant, which is part of…
The specialty chemicals group Altana AG (Wesel, Germany; www.altana.com) has acquired the Formulated Resins business of Belgian chemical group Solvay S.A. (Brussels; www.solvay.com). The products are sold primarily under the Conap brand name. This business generated sales of approximately $20…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has recently commissioned the largest hydrogen-storage facility in the world, an underground cavern in Beaumont, Texas, in the Gulf Coast region of the U.S. This unique hydrogen storage cavern complements Air Liquide’s robust supply capabilities…
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.the-linde-group.com) has brought six major air-separation units (ASU) onstream for its customer Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group Co. in Lingwu near Yinchuan in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of Northwest China. Shenhua Ningxia is a…
GlyEco, Inc. (Phoenix, Ariz.; www.glyeco.com) announced the completion of its previously announced acquisition by its subsidiary Recovery Solutions & Technologies Inc. (RS&T) of certain glycol distillation assets from Union Carbide Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company (Midland,…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has completed the activities to acquire the specialty additives business (Performance Materials Division) of the Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) for $3.8 billion (approx. €3.5 billion) by the end of the year as…
Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.huntsman.com) has completed the sale of its European surfactants business to Innospec Inc. (Littleton, Colo.; www.innospecinc.com) for an enterprise value of $225 million. This business represented approximately $24 million of EBITDA in 2015. Huntsman intends…