Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) plans to build a second liquid hydrogen production facility in California to meet increasing product demand from several customer markets, including the growing fleet of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCV) in the state. Project…
Loop Industries, Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.loopindustries.com), a technology innovator in sustainably produced plastic, and thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) division, Uhde Inventa-Fischer GmbH, a global polyester technology provider and polyester plant engineering firm, announced a strategic alliance expected to…
Azerbaijan´s state energy company SOCAR recently held an opening ceremony for its new Biturox plant in the Heydar Aliyev Refinery near Baku, Azerbaijan. EPCM-Engineering Partner Pörner and SOCAR announced a successful commissioning as first part of the refinery reconstruction. SOCAR…
Atlas Copco AB (Stockholm, Sweden; www.atlascopcogroup.com) has acquired Industrie Pumpen Vertriebs GmbH (IPV). The company is a distributor of industrial pumps for the Varisco brand. IPV is based in Dresden, Germany. The company had revenues of approximately €5 million in…
Silicon Valley-based Xage Security announced an investment from Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.saev.com), a subsidiary of integrated energy and chemicals company Saudi Aramco. Xage also welcomes Norman Thorlakson to its leadership team as SVP of Sales and…
Shell Chemical LP (Houston, Tex.; www.shell.us) today announced the start of production of the fourth alpha-olefins (AO) unit at its Geismar, La. chemical manufacturing site. The 425,000-ton/yr capacity expansion brings total AO production at Geismar to more than 1.3 million…
Tata Chemicals Ltd. (TCL; Mumbai, India; www.tatachemicals.com) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with C-MET, an autonomous scientific society under the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) of the Government of India to develop collaborative technology for the recovery…
Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indoramaventures.com) announced the commencement of commercial production of purified isophthalic acid (PIA) plant at Indorama Ventures Xylenes & PTA, LLC, located at Decatur, Alabama, USA The Decatur PIA plants complement IVL’s existing…
Saudi International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem; Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia; www.sipchem.com) is pleased to announce that the ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) Film Plant, owned by Saudi Specialized Products Company (SSPC), an affiliate of Sipchem, commenced commercial operations on January 1, 2019.…
PolyOne Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio; www.polyone.com) announced the acquisition of Fiber-Line (Hatfield, Pa.; www.fiber-line.com), a global leader in customized engineered fibers and composite materials for $120 million. Founded in 1987, Fiber-Line has utilized its customer-centric culture and specialty innovation to establish…