This company has engineered a purpose-built VM-450-gallon VersaMix (photo) that features three independently driven agitators, including a two-wing center-mounted agitator with contoured bottom and Teflon scrapers to efficiently motivate viscous product throughout the mixing zone, a long helical flight agitator…
McDermott International Inc. (Houston) has been awarded a project management consultancy (PMC) and engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) contract for the Naphtha Cracker Expansion (Phase II) polypropylene expansion and new ethylene derivative unit project from Indian Oil Corp. Ltd.…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.), together with their Chinese partner companies – Shanghai Hua Yi (Group Company), Sinopec Shanghai Gaoqiao Petrochemical Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Chlor-Alkali Chemical Co., Ltd. – announce the planned separation of…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced it will be making a significant investment to meet industry demand with increased winding capacity at its liquefied natural gas (LNG) equipment manufacturing facility located in Port Manatee, Florida. Air Products expects that this…
Toray Advanced Composites, developer and producer of advanced thermoplastic and thermoset composite materials, announced the planned expansion of its Morgan Hill, Calif. plant operations. The new facility will add 74,000 square feet (6,800 square meters) to the existing campus facilities.…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) has been awarded a $487 million biotech expansion project in Denmark and is also mobilizing resources in the central U.S. for the first phase of a new life sciences production facility valued at $574 million. Fluor…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has completed the carve-out of its mobile emissions catalysts and precious metal services businesses and named the separate legal entity BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions (ECMS). The company’s intention to carve out the entity was…
Sika AG (Baar, Switzerland) has increased production capacities for macro fibers at its plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, thus extending a product line of strategic importance for Region Americas. With this innovative fiber technology, Sika is further strengthening its position as…
Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo) has begun licensing of technology for the design and manufacture of lithium-ion capacitors (LiCs) based on its proprietary lithium pre-doping technology1. The novel proprietary doping method enables LiCs to be manufactured at lower cost with generally…
Técnicas Reunidas S.A. (TR; Madrid, Spain) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank, to help accelerate the decarbonization of Eastern European economies. The collaboration seeks to facilitate the transition to…