Salina, Kansas, USA April 2016 – Coperion and Coperion K-Tron formally announce exhibition at the International Powder & Bulk Solids Conference & Exhibition, Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont, Illinois, May 3-5 – Booth 1413. The booth will feature feeding,…
Today, Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) officially opened its new polysilicon-production site in Charleston, Tennessee (photo below). The ceremony was attended by numerous guests from politics, business and government, including Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam and the state’s two U.S.…
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi-global.com) has received an order from Nippon Ekitan Corp. for a carbon-dioxide-capture unit for new liquefied carbonic-acid gas production facilities under construction at that company's Mizushima Plant in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture. The new…
Overall industrial production declined 0.6% in March, but the chemical industry was one of few industry sectors experiencing production growth, according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). While the…
Total Cray Valley (TCV; Paris, France; www.crayvalley.com) announces that it has started construction on its new C4 chemical manufacturing plant in Carling, France. TCV will use the new plant to produce liquid polybutadiene. With the ability to produce several…
Calgon Carbon Corporation (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.calgoncarbon.com) announced today that it has made a binding offer to acquire the wood-based activated carbon, reactivation and mineral-based filtration media business of CECA. The transaction is valued at €145.5 million ($160.1 million) which includes…
Linde Eastern Oxygen Sdn Bhd (Linde EOX), a subsidiary of Linde Malaysia Sdn Bhd (Bintulu; www.linde.com.my), today announced an investment of RM33 million (EUR 7.4 million) in Tanjung Kidurong to build an air separation unit (ASU) producing approximately 33 metric…
Today Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi-global.com) launched operations at MHI Australia, Pty. Ltd. in Sydney. Creation of the new entity has two overriding ambitions: 1) to strengthen ties with Australia's governmental institutions and economic and industrial sectors,…
Clariant (Muttent, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) is increasing production capacity for Tonsil bleaching earths and Tonsil Coarse Optimized (CO) grades at its Puebla site in Mexico by 30%. The additional capacity comes on stream as of April 2016, concluding two years of…
Royal DSM (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) is extending its range of high temperature resistant bio-based polymers with the introduction of a new family of high performance polyamide 4T materials, partially produced from renewable resources, called ForTii Eco. These new materials…