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Technip awarded a services contract for a fertilizer complex in Brazil
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com), within the framework of a cooperation partnership with Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com), was awarded a contract for providing basic and front end engineering services on a Petrobras grassroots fertilizer complex to be located at…
Evonik builds new catalyst plant for biodiesel production in Argentina
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is building a new plant for manufacturing catalysts for biodiesel production in Argentina. In an official ceremony held on September 15, 2011. The detail engineering of the facility is already complete. The plant, which…
Axens’ technologies for Petron in the Philippines
Petron Corp. (www.petron.com), the largest oil refining and marketing company in the Philippines, selected Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) to supply technologies for its Bataan Refinery Upgrading (RMP-2 Project). The project aims heavier crudes processing for higher quality products and propylene…
Technip wins FEED contract for a world-class ammonia-urea fertilizer facility in Gabon
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by Gabon Fertilizers Co. a strategic engineering contract for a world-class grassroots ammonia-urea fertilizer project to be developed at Port Gentil, Gabon. The proposed project includes a 2,200 metric ton (m.t.) per day ammonia…
BASF Qtech formed to commercialize catalytic surface coatings for steam-cracker furnace tubes
BASF Corp. (Iselin, N.J.; www.basf.com) today announced that its affiliate, BASF Canada Inc., has joined Quantiam Technologies Inc. (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; www.quantiam.com), as co-shareholders in a newly formed corporation named BASF Qtech Inc. This start-up business will be run as…
Outotec wins large-scale iron ore pelletizing plant project in Russia
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with NLMK Novolipetsk Metallurgisk Kombinat on the delivery of a large-scale iron ore pelletizing plant in Stary Oskol, 600 km south of Moscow. NLMK Novolipetsk belongs to the NLMK Group, one of largest…
Sartorius Stedim Biotech and GE Healthcare Life Sciences sign cross-licensing agreement
Sartorius Stedim Biotech (Aubagne, France; www.sartorius-stedim.com) has entered into a patent cross-licensing agreement with GE Healthcare Life Sciences (Chalfont St. Giles, U.K.; www.gehealthcare.com). This will enable the further development of each company’s current and future biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies. “Signing this…
UOP technology selected for petrochemical production in China
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that Fujian Meide Petrochemical Co. selected it to provide key technology to help meet the growing Chinese demand for propylene, a petrochemical used in plastics production. The new propane…
GEA Westfalia Separator: Another biodiesel plant for Argentina
GEA Westfalia Separator Group (Oelde, Germany; www.westfalia-separator.com) has received another order for the delivery of a complete biodiesel plant to Argentina. The Spanish engineering office Isolux is the ordering party, which is responsible as main contractor for the construction of…
Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group selects Ineos Technologies’ Innovene PP process
Ineos Technologies (www.ineos.com) has licensed its Innovene PP process for the manufacture of polypropylene homopolymers, random copolymers and impact copolymers to the Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group Co. (Ningxia, China). The 300,00-ton/yr Innovene PP plant will produce a wide range of…