Florida Chemical Supply

Sterling Auxiliaries | September 28, 2020

Sterling Auxiliaries Pvt. Ltd. and its parent company, Artek Surfin Chemicals Ltd., a leading producer of specialty chemicals with manufacturing capabilities across four continents, have agreed to acquire the land and assets associated with Baker Hughes' Sand Springs, Oklahoma, chemicals manufacturing facility. The Sand Springs facility, which includes approximately 120 employees who will transfer with the sale to Sterling, manufactures oilfield specialty chemicals. As part of the transactio...

U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, Airgas | July 31, 2020

The US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board issued two significant reports in late July. One praises voluntary actions of Airgas after a deadly incident at a nitrous oxide facility. The second is a factual update to the ongoing investigation of an incident at an Aghorn Operating facility in Texas in which a worker and his wife died from exposure to toxic hydrogen sulfide gas. The CSB is an independent, nonregulatory federal agency that investigates chemical accidents. In...

Chemical Management

Univar Solutions | October 20, 2022

Univar Solutions Inc. a leading global solutions provider to users of specialty ingredients and chemicals, announced the addition of four pharmaceutical ingredient labs at its flagship Solution Centers in Houston, Texas; Osasco - São Paulo, Brazil; Mexico City, Mexico; and Essen, Germany. The new facilities, designed to foster innovation and growth for customers in life science markets, will provide technical services such as formulation and prototype development, performance and applicat...

Chemical Management

Afton Chemical | July 21, 2022

Afton Chemical Corporation, a global leader in petroleum additives, announced the recent completion of a $70 MM USD investment in its Sauget, IL Plant’s Automatic Transmission Fluid additive production facility. The investment will help support the growing needs of oil marketers and Original Equipment Manufacturers for next-generation developments in electric vehicle fluids, including hybrid and battery electric vehicles. The improvements will also provide additional capabil...