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China is set to drive capacity growth in the global ethylbenzene industry from planned and announced plants between 2019 and 2023, contributing around 59% of global growth by 2023, says GlobalData.

Mosaic Materials has progressed research on a unique process that uses porous solids, known as metal-organic frameworks, to separate carbon dioxide from the air or flue gas.

Fuxin Special Steel Co., Ltd., a stainless steel producer based in Zhangzhou in the southeastern province of Fujian, China, and part of Formosa Plastics Corporation, is going to expand its production facilities by a new hot rolling mill as well as cold rolling mills including continuous annealing line and numerous finishing lines.

The Van Leeuwen Pipe and Tube Group have entered into an agreement to acquire BENTELER Distribution, a division of BENTELER International AG with an annual turnover of about € 750M (2018).

ZK International Group Co., Ltd a designer, engineer, manufacturer, and supplier of patented high-performance stainless steel and carbon steel pipe products primarily used for water and gas supplies, recently announced that the Chinese government started implementing a new Assessment Standard for Green Buildings this month, which the Company believes provides a favorable catalyst for the stainless steel pipe industry for years to come and could potentially benefit companies such as ZK International.

To ensure compliance with relevant standards in the food and medical technology sector, Schoeller Werk will from now on use a new surface roughness meter (profilometer).

To further expand its position as a global supplier of engineering plastics, BASF signed an agreement with Solvay in September 2017 on the acquisition of Solvay’s integrated polyamide business.

Hunting Energy Services with its Premium Connections technology has recently signed a strategic alliance with Jindal SAW Ltd., in New Delhi.

Equinor and partners OMV and Petoro have made an oil discovery in the Sputnik exploration well in the Barents Sea. Recoverable resources are preliminarily estimated at 20 65 million barrels of oil.

The low cost, handheld, battery operated PurgEye® 100, designed and developed by Huntingdon Fusion Techniques HFT® is perfect for obtaining zero color, oxide-free welds in stainless steel, reading accurately from atmospheric oxygen level (20.94%), right down to 100 ppm (0.01%).