Wison Engineering Services Co. (Shanghai; www.wison-engineering.com), one of the leading chemical engineering, procurement and construction management (EPC) service and technology providers in China, announces that the company has won an EPC contract for an ethylene oxide and ethylene glycol (EOEG)…
Tesoro Corp. (San Antonio, Tex.; www.tsocorp.com) through its affiliate Tesoro Refining & Marketing Company LLC, has acquired Dakota Prairie Refining, LLC (DPR), which owns a refinery near Dickinson, North Dakota, with strategic access to advantaged Bakken crude oil and is…
Evonik (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) and Transferra Nanosciences, Inc., formerly known as Northern Lipids Inc., have signed an asset purchase agreement whereby Evonik will acquire the business and assets of Transferra Nanosciences Inc., a biotechnology company based in Burnaby close to…
Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.saudiaramco.com) and Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) have signed an agreement to conduct a feasibility study on the development of a fully integrated crude-oil-to-chemicals complex to be located in Saudi…
Agilent Technologies, Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.; www.agilent.com) and iLab Solutions, LLC have signed a definitive agreement under which Agilent will acquire substantially all of the assets of iLab, the market leader in cloud-based solutions for core laboratory management. The acquisition…
Convey, load, unload, weigh, feed, and process virtually any bulk solid material Flexicon Corporation is a world leader in the design and manufacture of bulk handling equipment and custom-engineered and integrated plant-wide systems. Flexicon products range from individual equipment to…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) recently commissioned and brought onstream its second integrated oxy-fuel solution for Techpack Solutions in Korea. The cutting-edge offering helps this leading Korean container glassmaker reap multiple benefits of reduced emissions and improved energy efficiency,…
GEA (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.gea.com) has designed, manufactured and delivered a gas-jet compressor system for an offshore platform in the North Sea consisting of a jet pump (ejector) with a total length of about 4.5 m and silencers to reduce the…
Air Liquide(Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has entered into an agreement to sell certain assets in the U.S. to Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc., a subsidiary of Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. (Tokyo, Japan). Upon closing, these divestitures to Matheson would mark a significant milestone…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) inaugurated its new production plant for water-based pigment preparations in Santa Clara, Mexico. The new plant doubles Clariant’s Mexico annual production capacity for water-based pigment preparations and enhances its ability to serve customers across North and…