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HPD to supply salt production and caustic facility to Shintech
Shintech Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. of Japan, has selected HPD (Plainfield, Ill.), a Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies (www.veoliawater.com) company, to supply a salt crystallization plant and a caustic soda concentration system as part…
Evonik grants exclusive license to Solvias
Evonik Degussa GmbH (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com), has granted an exclusive license to Solvias AG (Basel, Switzerland), to develop, manufacture, and market the catASium and cataCXium ligand product lines. Evonik, a leading supplier of catalytic system solutions, remains active in homogenous…
Uhde wins two contracts for coke plants in Japan
OTTO Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) has commissioned Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.biz) to provide comprehensive engineering and supply services within the scope of two plant contracts received by the Japanese company from JFE Steel Corp. and MCC Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. The…
Total inaugurates MTO demonstration unit
At its petrochemicals complex in Feluy, Belgium, Total S.A. (Paris; www.total.com) today inaugurated a demonstration plant intended to produce olefins and polyolefins from methanol. The integrated unit is the world’s first application of an innovative technology that helps to diversify…
Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Co. selects UOP technology for refinery expansion in UAE
The Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company, also known as Takreer, has selected UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.) to supply technology and engineering services for an expansion at its Ruwais Refinery in the United Arab Emirates.The refinery will produce propylene, unleaded gasoline,…
Vertellus Specialties to expand vitamin B3 production in China
Vertellus Specialties Inc. (Indianapolis, Ind.) plans to expand its vitamin B3 manufacturing capacity in Nantong, Jiangsu, China to meet the growing need for vitamins related to animal and human nutrition in the Chinese and Asian markets. Vertellus is proceeding with…
Wacker commissions new silicones production facilities
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) has commissioned two new production facilities for silicone polymers and sealants at its Nünchritz site. With this capacity expansion, the company is meeting rising customer demand for silicone products. Investments in the new facilities…
Norske Skog/Xynergo & Choren collaborate on biofuels
Choren Industries GmbH (Freiberg, Germany; www.choren.com) and Norske Skog have entered into an agreement for collaboration in the evaluation of second generation biofuel production in Norway. Choren is a world leader in solid-feed gasification technology used amongst others in the…
BASF researchers develop new F-T catalyst
The high prices of naphtha (crude petroleum) as a feedstock for steam crackers are prompting the chemical industry to re-evaluate alternative approaches to securing raw material supplies. One long-known process is the Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) synthesis for the industrial-scale conversion of…
Solvay opens new PTFE plant in China
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announces today the inauguration of its new world-class Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) Micronized Powder production unit in the People’s Republic of China, to serve the dynamic local demand for innovative and high performance materials. PTFE Micronised Powders,…