PPG Industries, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.ppg.com) held a ceremony marking the completion of a project to increase precipitated silica production capacity at its Delfzijl, Netherlands, manufacturing location. The expansion, which came on line earlier this year, adds capacity of more…
Akzo Nobel N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has inaugurated two new specialty chemicals plants at its multi-site in Ningbo, China, that together represent a combined investment of €80 million. The company has also announced that a further €90 million is…
Honeywell (Morris Plains, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) and Flowserve Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.flowserve.com) announced they will collaborate to provide Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions to help industrial customers make their operations safer, more efficient and more reliable. The collaboration will be…
KBR Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced the successful completion of performance tests and official handover of the landmark Dyno Nobel ammonia plant in Waggaman, Louisiana. The project is the first to use an integrated KBR solution of KBR's Purifier ammonia technology…
Invista (Wichita, Kansas; www.invista.com) celebrated the grand opening of its nylon 6,6 facility, including a new 215,000-metric ton (m.t.) hexamethylene diamine (HMD) plant and a 150,000-m.t. polymer plant, at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP) in China. Officials from SCIP…
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan; www.shinetsu.co.jp) plans to proactively expand its silicones business, one of its main business segments, by establishing a new plant in Japan, and expanding its Technical Center in Japan that performs technical services for silicone rubber…
This company’s polyethersulfone membrane (PESU) is now integrated into two new, sterile Sartocon benchtop and production-scale single-use filtration assemblies (photo). Using these assemblies guarantees rapid and safe ultrafiltration of biologics and vaccines. Due to the fully enclosed design, the Sartocon…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has signed a long-term contract with MEGlobal to supply oxygen and nitrogen to its new ethylene glycol (EG) plant being built in Freeport, Texas. MEGlobal (www.meglobal.biz), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Equate Petrochemical Co. (www.equate.com), is…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) continued to execute its strategy of providing environmental solutions for growing water treatment applications in China. The company recently started up two vacuum pressure swing adsorption (VPSA) oxygen supply systems for Jiangbin Water Treatment Co.,…
Establishing good control over vacuum processes has numerous benefits, such as helping to improve process yields, achieve more repeatable results, and reduce process times. And there are several options for controlling vacuum processes to achieve these various benefits. This post…