Avantium (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.avantium.com) announced that it has retaken full ownership of its YXY plants-to-plastics technology through the purchase of BASF’s shares in the Synvina joint venture. Avantium has appointed Marcel Lubben as Managing Director of Synvina to lead…
Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.saudiaramco.com), through its wholly-owned subsidiary Saudi Aramco Technologies, signed a Joint Development and Collaboration Agreement (JDCA) with Axens (Rueill-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) and TechnipFMC (Houston; www.technipfmc.com) to accelerate the development and commercialization of the company’s Catalytic…
Rockwell Automation Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisc.; www.rockwellautomation.com) has acquired Emulate3D, an engineering software developer whose products digitally simulate and emulate industrial automation systems located in Reading, U.K. By using accurate simulation models to improve systems planning and decision-making, followed by emulation…
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) announced that it will initiate the reconfiguration of its global acetic acid production network through multiple value-creation steps. Celanese recently announced the planned acquisition of the carbon monoxide production unit from Linde PLC, located at…
Entegris, Inc. (Billerica, Mass.; www.entegris.com) and Versum Materials, Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.; www.versummaterials.com) announced that they have agreed to combine in a merger of equals. The combined company will be a premier specialty materials company for the semiconductor and other high-tech…
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC; www.adnoc.ae) signed two new strategic equity partnerships with Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy; www.eni.com) and OMV (Vienna, Austria; www.omv.com) covering both ADNOC Refining and a new trading joint venture (JV), which will be jointly established…
Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals; www.nouryon.com) will license its continuous initiator dosing (CiD) technology to Karpatnaftochim, Ukraine’s largest polyvinyl chloride (PVC) producer. Nouryon’s patented CiD technology allows PVC producers to increase reactor output by up to 40%, improve product quality,…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has acquired an 18.6% stake in the capital of the Canadian company Hydrogenics Corp. (Mississauga, Ontario; www.hydrogenics.com), a leader in electrolysis hydrogen production equipment and fuel cells. This strategic transaction, which represents an investment of…
The production of value-added products from renewable raw materials is Borregaard's strategy. GEA (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.gea.com) is supporting its customer with the supply of a turnkey plant for the spray drying of lignosulfonate in the double-digit million range. The solution…