Perstorp AB (Malmö, Sweden; www.perstorp.com) has unveiled plans to invest in the construction of a new Pentaerythritol (Penta) production facility in Gujarat, India. Representatives from the Perstorp executive leadership team, were joined by government officials, employees and selected guests at…
Honeywell today announced at China International Import Expo (CIIE) 2019 that Dayuewan (Zhuhai) Petrochemical Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Grain Petrochemical Group, will use a range of technologies from Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) to upgrade heavy fuel…
Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu and Air Products Qudra signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish world-class industrial gas production facilities and distribution networks in the industrial cities of Royal Commission. The MoU sets preliminary framework details for…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) and Sinopec (China Petroleum & Chemical Corp.) have signed, in Beijing, in the presence of Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, and Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China, a memorandum of…
Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, Mass.; www.thermofisher.com) announced that it is investing nearly $24 million in its Inchinnan, Scotland, site to expand global bioproduction capabilities with additional large-volume liquid manufacturing capacity for cell culture media. Thermo Fisher's high-quality liquid products, including cell…
Firmenich (Geneva, Switzerland; www.firmenich.com), the world's largest privately-owned perfume and taste company, has acquired the CO2 extraction business from Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com). This acquisition significantly expands Firmenich's capabilities in supercritical fluid extraction (SFE), complementing its Naturals Centre…
Hexion Inc. (Columbus, Ohio; www.hexion.com) announced its intention to add phenolic resin capacity as the latest expansion of its adhesives and binders business at its Brimbank, Australia site. “As a global leader uniquely positioned in the Australia and New Zealand…
Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.nouryon.com) and U.S.-based startup Forge Nano have agreed to explore a joint collaboration in ultra-thin coatings for high-growth applications, including batteries and catalysts. The technology, called atomic layer deposition (ALD), also has the potential to open…
Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy; www.eni.com) has started the updating work for its new supercomputer system, HPC5, in order to strengthen the existing HPC4 system, tripling its computing power from 18 to 52 petaflops (floating point operations per second), equivalent to…
To meet rapidly increasing demand for its water-soluble and biodegradable films, the MonoSol Division of Kuraray Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.kuraray.com) announced plans to further expand its operations with the construction of a new manufacturing facility in Poland. Additionally, the…