Ecolab Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.; www.ecolab.com) has acquired the business of privately held Chemstar Corporation, a U.S.-based supplier of food safety and cleaning and sanitizing solutions focused on the grocery and food retail markets. Chemstar and its Sterilox Fresh product…
INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany; www.ineos-styrolution.com) hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for its new ASA (acrylonitrile styrene acrylate) plant in Bayport, Texas. The development of the new site is part of a bigger expansion plan for the Americas, which includes increased ABS…
The Board of ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) has unanimously appointed Björn Rosengren, as Chief Executive Officer. He will join ABB on February 1, 2020 and succeed CEO, Peter Voser, in this role on March 1, 2020. At that time Peter…
CarbonCure Technologies (Dartmouth, N.S., Canada; www.carboncure.com), and Linde (www.linde.com) have partnered to introduce the award-winning CarbonCure Technology to Europe, Southeast Asia and Oceania. The alliance will allow CarbonCure to accelerate international adoption of CarbonCure’s turnkey carbon solution for the concrete…
Halix B.V. (Leiden, the Netherlands; www.halix.nl), a contract development and manufacturing organization of clinical and commercial proteins and viral products, announced today that it has met its major milestone with the interim delivery of a new 6,700-m2 cGMP facility in…
Indorama Ventures Public Co. Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indoramaventures.com) has announced the acquisition of Huntsman Corp.’s (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.huntsman.com) integrated oxides and derivatives businesses. The purchase price is based on an enterprise value of $2.0 billion and up to…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that Sonatrach Total Entreprise Polymères Spa (STEP), a joint venture (JV) between Sonatrach and TOTAL S.A, has selected LyondellBasell’s Spheripol technology for a 550,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) polypropylene unit to be constructed…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced that it has acquired isomerization technologies from RRT Global that will enable KBR to offer expanded octane and clean fuel technology solutions to customers. KBR, in alliance with RRT Global, has been offering MAX-ISOM catalytic…
Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) announced that Total Lubrifiants (lubricants.total.com) has acquired Houghton International’s aluminum hot rolling oil (AHRO), steel cold rolling oil (SCRO) and tinplate rolling oil (TPRO) activities in the North American and European Economic Area markets. The transaction…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced it has been awarded a contract by POSCO Chemical to supply on-site nitrogen to a new anode material manufacturing site being built in Sejong, South Korea. POSCO Chemical is an affiliate of POSCO…