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DyStar sells Brunsbüttel site
CBW Chemie GmbH Bitterfeld Wolfen (www.cbwchem.com) and WeylChem Group (www.weylchem.com) have reached an agreement with DyStar Colours Deutschland GmbH (Frankfurt; www.dystar.com) for the acquisition of DyStar’s production site in Brunsbüttel, Germany. The site, which is part of the Bayer Industrial…
GSK signs agreement with Lonza
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK; Brentford, U.K.; www.gsk.com) and Lonza (Basel, Switzerland; www.lonza.com) today announced that they have entered into a new agreement under which Lonza will support the ongoing development of GSK’s biopharmaceutical pipeline by supplying manufacturing capacity for five early stage…
A new PET plant for OCTAL
OCTAL Petrochemicals (www.octal.com) recently signed a contract with Uhde Inventa-Fischer (Berlin, Germany and Domat/Ems, Switzerland; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) to build a 550,000-ton/yr plant for the production of PET resin. The contract for delivery of two lines unique to OCTAL will use the…
Schenck Process sign sales agreement with FCT-ACTech
Schenck Process GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany; www.schenckprocess.com) FCT-ACTech Pty Ltd. (Thebarton, Australia; www.fctinternational.com) have signed a Sales Representation Agreement for the promotion of FCT’s unique Continuous On-Stream Mineral Analyser (COSMA) by Schenck Process in multiple territories including the EU (excluding Scandinavia),…
IOCL selects Axens’ CGO hydrotreating technology
Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL; New Delhi; www.iocl.com) has chosen Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) to supply the technology for its coker-gas-oil (CGO) hydrotreating unit at its Haldia Refinery. With a design capacity of 1.4-million ton/yr, the new unit will hydro-process…
Outotec technology for Konkola Copper Mines
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has received an order from Konkola Copper Mines for the delivery of the third electric furnace and related services for the Chingola copper smelter in Zambia. The order value is approximately €13 million. The order…
Solvay invests in electronic-grade HF
Solvay S.A. Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) and its Chinese partner Sinochem Lantian have decided to build a new electronic grade hydrogen fluoride production installation for Lansol Fluorchem Co., Solvay's joint venture with Zhejiang Lantian Environmental Protection Co., a subsidiary of Sinochem…
JGC and Abengoa Solar to jointly own two CSP plants in Spain
JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) and Abengoa Solar (Seville, Spain; www.abengoasolar.com) have formed a partnership to own two 50-MW concentrating solar power (CSP) plants in El Carpio (Córdoba), Spain. Abengoa Solar, who will also operate both facilities, will retain control…
Outotec and Kemira to develop solutions for water-intensive industrial applications
Outotec Oyj (Espoo; www.outotec.com) Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, both Finland; www.kemira.com) have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to develop, promote and support the companies’ businesses in minerals and oil-sands processing as well as associated industrial water treatment solutions. Kemira offers a…
Solvay increases Tecnoflon production capacity
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has decided to increase the production capacity for peroxide-curable (PC) fluoroelastomers, commercialized under the trademark Tecnoflon, in the Solvay Solexis plant at Spinetta Marengo, Italy. Solvay is investing €10 million in the capacity increase, which is…