Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced the signing of an agreement for the supply of multiple industrial gases to The Chemours Co. (Wilmington, Del.; www.chemours.com). Air Products will build, own and operate an air separation unit (ASU) in New…
Milliken & Co. (Spartanburg, S.C.; www.milliken.com) announced that J. Harold Chandler has been elected chairman, president and chief executive officer effective immediately following the resignation of Joseph M. Salley as president and chief executive officer and as a member of the board…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com today announced the official opening of its new polypropylene (PP) catalyst production facility in Louisville, Kentucky. The new plant, developed and implemented in cooperation with CB&I The Woodlands, Tex; www.cbi.com), makes the Louisville site Clariant’s largest…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has signed a long-term alliance agreement with Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) that will expand CB&I's licensing position for syngas opportunities. As part of the agreement, CB&I will promote Haldor Topsøe’s licensed syngas-based technologies,…
Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc. (www.praxairsurfacetechnologies.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com), and GE Aviation (www.ge.com/aviation) today announced the formal creation of PG Technologies, LLC (www.praxairsurfacetechnologies.com), a joint venture (JV). Praxair Surface Technologies and its subsidiary will…
The August 2016 preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) was slightly lower than the downwardly revised July number. Some equipment subcategories, such as Process Machinery and Electical Equipment, saw small increases, while others,…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announced that it expects to increase global production capacity for its high-performance sulfone polymers by more than 35% over the next five years through significant investments and process optimizations at facilities in the U.S. and…
Trinseo will begin production of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) resin (marketed under the name Magnum ABS) at its Zhangjiagang, China site in 2017. The investment project, which began in 2015, is based on Trinseo’s proprietary process technology, which yields ABS…
Braskem (São Paulo, Brazil; www.braskem.com.br), the largest thermoplastics resins producer in the Americas, announced the commissioning of the new UTEC ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) engineered-polymer production plant at its La Porte, Texas site. Braskem sells high-performance UHMWPE under the trade name…
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo; www.toray.com) announced that it has made a decision to absorb Toray Battery Separator Film Co., a wholly owned consolidated subsidiary that manufactures and markets separators for lithium-ion secondary batteries (LIB) effective April 1, 2017. The merger…