Neste Jacobs Oy (Porvoo, Finland; www.nestejacobs.com) has been chosen as the engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) contractor to design and implement the new biopropane production process at Neste Oil's Rotterdam refinery. Neste Oil and Neste Jacobs have together developed…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) has opened an Engineering Project Center for its North America operations, in Louisville, Ky. The new facility provides project management and engineeering services for current and future capital projects, said Kenneth Golder, Clairant’s head of the…
In addition to its production capacity of about 10,000 metric tons/year (m.t./yr) out of the Cassano, Italy Biosuccinium plant, Reverdia (Geleen, the Netherlands; www.reverdia.com) has announced at the European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology (EFIB) that it is now licensing Biosuccinium. …
The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) has signed a definitive agreement with ExxonMobil Chemical Co. (Houston; www.exxonmobilchemical.com) regarding an ownership restructure of Univation Technologies, LLC. Currently a 50/50 joint venture (JV), Univation Technologies is the licensor of Unipol Polyethylene…
Ineos Technologies (Rolle, Switzerland; www.ineos.com) has announced that it has entered into license agreements for its Innovene S and Innovene G polyethylene technologies to be used by the proposed Ascent (Appalachian Shale Cracker Enterprise) petrochemical complex currently being evaluated by…
ABB’s (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) Measurement Products business announced that its laboratory in Germany has received accreditation for independent testing and calibration of gas analyzers. Accreditation was awarded by the German Accreditation Service (DAkkS) in Berlin/Braunschweig. The laboratory in Frankfurt Praunheim…
Nippon Shokubai Co. (Osaka, Japan; www.shokubai.co.jp) has decided to build a new production plant for superabsorbent polymers (SAP) at its existing Himeji plant site. The new plant will have an annual capacity of 50,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr). The…
Hexcel Corp. (Stamford, Conn.; www.hexcel.com) has announced that it will expand its carbon fiber production capacity through the addition of new precursor and carbon fiber lines in Roussillon, France. The $250-million investment will also include the associated quality control laboratories…
Velocys plc (Plain City, Ohio; www.velocys.com) has raised £52 ($85) million (excluding expenses) for its work in the area of smaller scale gas-to-liquids (GTL). The funds were raised through an oversubscribed equity placing, priced at a slight premium to the…
Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.huntsman.com) has announced that it has commenced preliminary engineering to expand production of methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) by investment in a new, world-scale MDI plant at its Geismar, La. site. The 400,000-metric-ton (m.t.) expansion…