Marubeni Corporation has acquired an 80.1 percent stake in All-State Belting, a conveyor belt distributor headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa, USA. The acquisition came as a result of splitting All State Industries into a non-metallic-parts manufacturing business and a belting distribution business.

Almatec has extended its line of solid plastic C-Series Air-Operated Double-Diaphragm (AODD) Pumps to include new C 40 (1-1/2”) and C 50 (2”) models.

The Kingdom’s pharma market is expected to be valued at 10.74 billion dollars by 2023, according to industry data. The Saudi Government has also introduced a 17 % increase in funds for spending on health and social development.

The 750,000 tonne/year Ethylene Glycol facility is the first of its kind unit for MEGlobal in the USA. The company’s scope of work for the project involves the installation of equipment, steel and piping for the process unit.

Safety first: Chemical engineers working in safety can benefit from a new seminar by IChemE on the implementation of the Seveso lll European directive that comes into force in 2015.

Arkema announced the successful start-up of its first thiochemicals platform in Malaysia. The construction of this new world-scale site has represented an investment of some €200 million for the Group.

Exxon Mobil starts up a new 2.6 million tons per year steamcracker, the centerpiece of the company’s multi-billion dollar expansion project at its refinery in Singapore. With this large scale project, the company targets the production of specialty grade metallocene polymers in Asia...

Technip was awarded engineering and procurement contracts by Westlake Chemical Corporation (WLK) for the expansion and modernization of the ethylene cracking furnaces and the recovery section of Westlake’s ethylene plant in Calvert City, Kentucky.

There might be still a market potential for acetic acid: While markets common basic chemical are more or less saturated in Europe and the US, especially China accounts for growing demands states a new GBI study...

Air Products has entered into a JV with the Debang Group to build, own and operate a coal-to-syngas processing facility in the Jiangsu Province of China. Under the terms of the agreement, Air Products will own 80 % of the JV while the remaining 20 % will be with the Debang Group.