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Air Liquide to build €70-million
gases plant in Wuhan
June 28, 2021 - Air Liquide S.A.
(Paris; www.airliquide.com)
will
invest around €70 million to build a
new gases plant in Wuhan, China to
supply a major microchip maker. Air
Liquide will build, own and operate
this ultra-high-purity industrial-gas
plant, which will produce 52,000
m3/h of nitrogen, as well as oxygen
and argon, among other ultra-high
purity gases. The plant is planned
to be operational in 2022.
Indorama adds PNDA production
unit in Alabama
June 21, 2021 - Indorama Ventures
Xylenes & PTA, LLC (IVXP), a subsidiary
of Indorama Ventures Ltd. (Bangkok,
Thailand; www.indoramaventures.
com), announced a new production
unit for purified 2,6-naphthalene
dicarboxylic acid (PNDA), which
will make IVXP the world's largest
PNDA producer. The unit is located
at IVXP's integrated manufacturing
site in Decatur, Ala.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Sasol sells its
BASF acquires catalyst-recycling
plant in Texas
sodium cyanide business
July 12, 2021 - Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg,
South Africa; www.sasol.com) has
concluded an agreement to sell its
sodium cyanide business to a South
African subsidiary of Draslovka
Holding a.s., a Czech-based company
specializing in cyanide production for
R1.46 billion (around $101 million).
The transaction is expected to close
in the first half of 2022.
Enterprise acquires ethylene
business from NOVA Chemicals
July 6, 2021 - Enterprise Products
Partners L.P. (Houston; www.
enterpriseproducts.com) and NOVA
Chemicals Corp. (Calgary, Alta., Canada;
www.novachem.com) announced that
a subsidiary of Enterprise has acquired
a wholly owned subsidiary of NOVA
Chemicals that operates an ethylene
storage business and trading hub in
Mont Belvieu, Tex. This acquisition
gives Enterprise ownership of the
largest ethylene market hub in Texas.
July 6, 2021 - BASF SE (Ludwigshafen,
Germany; www.basf.com) has expanded
its chemical catalyst recycling capacity
and capability with the acquisition of
Zodiac Enterprises LLC, located in
Caldwell, Tex. Zodiac's site recycles
precious metals from industrial scrap,
primarily chemical catalysts, and will
complement BASF's existing preciousmetal
recycling operations in Seneca,
South Carolina.
Air Liquide acquires world's
largest oxygen-production site
June 25, 2021 - Air Liquide has
finalized the acquisition from Sasol of
16 air separation units (ASUs) located
in Secunda, South Africa. Air Liquide will
operate this site - the biggest oxygen
production site in the world - with a
plan to reduce its CO2 emissions by
30 to 40% within the next ten years.
The initial investment is approximately
€480 million. The 16 ASUs have a total
installed capacity of 42,000 m.t./d. ■
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