KACE Valve was awarded a contract by Linde AG to supply automated severe service metal seated ball valves for Braskem America's polypropylene plant under construction in La Porte, Texas.

Dow dedicated $2 billion of chemical manufacturing investments at its Plaquemine site in Louisiana, including two new polyolefin plants, added ethylene capacity, warehousing and a restarted ethylene unit. The projects were first announced in August 2013.

Henkel completed its acquisition of the global Darex Packaging Technologies business, based in Massachusetts, for $1.05bn on a cash and debt-free basis. Darex makes sealants, coatings and cans for the metal packaging industry.

Phenomenex opened a new 15,000-square-foot facility in El Dorado Hills, California, for manufacturing and developing its Zebron gas chromatography columns, replacing Sutter Creek production and doubling capacity.

Honeywell started commercial operations at its $300 million automotive refrigerant production facility in Geismar, Louisiana.

LyondellBasell broke ground on its first commercial Hyperzone polyethylene plant at its La Porte, Texas complex. The plant will produce 500,000 metric tons of HDPE annually and is planned to start up in 2019.

PPG completed a $3m expansion of its packaging coatings manufacturing at its Oak Creek, Wisconsin plant, adding a 3,300 sq ft facility to produce food can coatings.

PPG opened a nearly $3 million expansion at its Oak Creek, Wisconsin, plant, adding a 3,300-square-foot facility for food-can coatings production.

Wood Group has been awarded a three-year contract worth $8 million to provide process automation engineering services as main automation contractor to TPC Group's Texas and Louisiana facilities.

Sealed Air is selling its Diversey Care division and the food hygiene and cleaning business within its Food Care division to Bain Capital for $3.2 billion. The report is dated 29 March 2017.

Henkel opened exclusive negotiations with GCP Applied Technologies to acquire Darex Packaging Technologies, a Cambridge, Massachusetts maker of sealants and coatings for metal packaging, for USD 1.05 billion in cash. Darex has about 700 employees at 20 sites.

Grannus LLC selected Haldor Topsoe to license ammonia loop, shift catalyst and sulfur guard technologies and provide engineering services for its 250 short tpd ammonia plant in Kern County, California, due to be operational in 2019.