Perstorp has acquired GEO’s Di-Methylolpropionic Acid (DMPA) business with an aim to further strengthen its sustainable resins and coatings business. With this move, GEO will continue to produce DMPA exclusively for Perstorp in Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA.

ExxonMobil has acquired a 49.9 % stake in Biojet with an aim to provide lower-emissions products for the transportation sector. Biojet will convert forestry and wood-based construction waste into lower-emissions biofuels and biofuel components as well as supply 3 million barrels per year to ExxonMobil.

Braskem Idesa, one of the leading petrochemical companies in Mexico will be making use of Honeywell’s intelligent wearables solution in order to improve compliance and productivity at the Veracruz plant in Mexico.

SNF announced a $ 1.2 billion investment in a further increase of Polyacrylamide production. These water-soluble polymers profit from increasing demand in the enhanced oil recovery industry (fracking).

Jacobs has been appointed to execute site engineering services at BASF’s site in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

Stamicarbon, the innovation and license company of Maire Tecnimont, announces that it has been awarded a licensing and equipment supply contract for two Ultra-Low Energy grassroots urea plants in the People’s Republic of China. The plants will be built in Dongping, Shandong Province, for a local urea producer.

Total Energies Polymer plant in Feluy, Belgium, announced the startup of a new production of high-performance polymers with the commissioning of a new reactor in its polypropylene unit.

Evonik Venture Capital invests in a 3D-printing start-up in China that makes implants for neuro and spine surgery. The company is the lead investor in a high single-digit million-euro round of fundraising for Shanghai-based Meditool.

The Nakhodka Mineral Fertiliser Plant has finalised Topsoe’s technology for building a 5,400 tonnes per day methanol plant in Russia. Work on the plant will be carried out by Haldor Topsoe and China Chengda Engineering.

Royal DSM has appointed Shruti Singhal as President of DSM Engineering Plastics. Singhal will report to Dimitri de Vreeze, Member of DSM’s Managing Board and succeed Roeland Polet who is expected to retire next year.