Oxea GmbH (Monheim am Rhein, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com), part of the Oman Oil Company & Orpic Group, joined eight other companies in a process to create a new, integrated energy company that will trade under the brand name OQ.OQ launched an…
Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany; www.messergroup.com)announced that it has entered into exclusive negotiations with Air Liquide regarding the purchase of Air Liquide’s entities in Czech Republic and Slovakia. This transaction is subject to the final and definitive agreement between…
VAKT Global Ltd. (London; www.vakt.com), a company focused on commodity post-trade processing underpinned by blockchain, has announced that Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures (SAEV) is its latest investor with a $5 million investment in new shares and Aramco Trading Company as…
ACTEGA do Brazil, a company of Altana AG (Wesel, Germany; www.altana.com), has inaugurated a new integrated site in the city of Araçariguama in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, in which around €2 million was invested. In a first step,…
Eighty years after nylon's first commercial production, clean manufacturing technology leader Genomatica (San Diego, Calif.; www.genomatica.com) achieved a new milestone for the material — its production of the world’s first renewably-sourced ton of caprolactam, a key ingredient for nylon-6, made…
HollyFrontier Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.hollyfrontier.com) has chosen Haldor Topsoe’s (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) HydroFlex sustainable renewable-fuel technology to produce renewable diesel from various feedstocks. The large renewable diesel unit will be located at HollyFrontier’s Artesia refinery in New Mexico. Under the…
After a successful pilot phase, Air Liquide (Paris; www.airliquide.com) has renewed its partnership with Solidia Technologies, a developer of solutions to reduce the environmental footprint of precast concrete manufacturing. During the pilot phase initiated in 2016, a joint team of…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced that it was awarded a project management consultancy services contract by Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) for its Polyols Petrochemicals Project at its existing integrated refinery and petrochemicals complex in Kochi, Kerala, India. Fluor’s…
Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany; www.merck.com) announced an investment of €250 million euros in a new facility in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland – the Merck Biotech Development Center – dedicated to biotech development and manufacturing. Driven by the growth of the Healthcare business…
McDermott International, Inc. (Houston; www.mcdermott.com) announced it has been granted approval from Beowulf Energy LLC and Preem AB to commence the front-end engineering design (FEED) phase for its Residue Oil Conversion Complex (ROCC) project. The project will be implemented at…