Air Products has formed a new joint venture with Linde North America named East Coast Nitrogen (ECN) and will build a new 1,100 tons per day world-scale air separation unit and industrial gas liquefier in Glenmont, New York.

Next bombshell at Ineos: The Swiss chemical company delivered plans to expand its business in Europe strongly and with high investments. Planned are a new world-scale unit and massive capacity increases at two sites.

Speciality chemicals company Clariant initiated a squeeze out process of the remaining stock holders of Süd-Chemie, already owning shares of 98.64 percent in the German company. With this acquisition Clariant gains a foothold in the catalyst's business where Süd-Chemie has a strong expertise.

Mann+Hummel wants to strengthen its position in the water filtration business and increases its shares in the membrane and module manufacturer Microdyn-Nadir. Since August 2014 the company headquartered in Wiesbaden has been responsible for Mann+Hummel´s water business.

It all began with bulk-material feeders and dischargers. Over the past six decades the company became a globally operating manufacturer of of weighing, feeding, discharging, controlling and flow metering equipment and systems for the bulk materials. A good reason to look back and to arm the company for the future.

Fluor Corporation announced that it has secured a contract for engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for BASF’s toluene diisocyanate (TDI) Complex project at BASF’s site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Fluor booked the undisclosed value into backlog in the fourth quarter of 2012.

In all segments of the water and wastewater industry, there is still plenty of scope for innovations, as the sector will be amply demonstrating at this year’s IFAT. The exhibitors will come up with plenty of new ideas in water and wastewater treatment. Here are just some examples …

Having completed its factory revamp in Perm, Halo Polymer announces the start of the R-14 manufacturing, which allowed practical doubling of volume of the finished product output, bringing it up to 20 tonnes per month.

Refinery expansion in the Middle East: Jacobs Engineering will provide project management consulting (PMC) services for an expansion project at a Saudi Arabian lube oil refinery of Saudi Aramco.

Oxea announced that its specialty esters plant in Nanjing, China, is now mechanically complete. After a construction period of slightly more than fifteen months the new state-of-the-art plant is currently in the commissioning and start-up phase. The new plant is Oxea’s first production site in Asia.