Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) today announced two big helium market wins. Air Products will supply to RasGas Company Ltd (RasGas), the helium licensor package equipment for the new Helium 3 plant to be located at the Barzan…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has signed a long-term hydrogen-supply agreement with Pallas Nitrogen Texas, LLC. Air Products will supply 44 million std ft3/d of H2 from its existing Gulf Coast Pipeline (GCP) to Pallas. The supply is…
ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com), the plant engineering and construction specialist of the ThyssenKrupp Group, has received an order to build a cement clinker production line from Cementos Argos, the biggest cement producer in Colombia and one…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) has been awarded by Tecnicas Reunidas a significant contract to supply three hydrogen reformers as part of the hydrogen production facility at Petronas’ Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) project located in the state of…
Maag Pump Systems AG (Oberglatt, Switzerland; www.maag.com) has agreed to acquire Gala Industries, Inc. (Eagle Rock, Va.; www.gala-industries.com). Gala is a leading manufacturer of underwater pelletizing systems, centrifugal pellet dryers and process solutions for the plastics industry. The addition…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) has officially started up a new reactor for vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions at its Calvert City site in Kentucky. By expanding its capacities, Wacker is meeting global demand for its dispersions and…
Dr. Ralf Köster was chosen as winner of the “industry” category for this year’s “Entrepreneur Of The Year” award, which honors distinguishing leadership excellence in mid-sized German companies. Since 2004, Köster has managed the global Bartec Group (Bad Mergentheim,…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec; Beijing, China; www.sinopec.com) have inaugurated their world-scale isononanol (INA) plant in Maoming Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone, Maoming, China. The plant will be run by BASF MPCC Co.…
Microdyn-Nadir (Wiesbaden, Germany; (www.microdyn-nadir.com) has signed an agreement with its U.S.-based partner, OVIVO Water, to start the construction of its second Bio-Cel production line in the U.S. Microdyn-Nadir decided to build its second Bio-Cel production line in the U.S.…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has it received a contract from Nippon Shokubai Europe N.V. for detailed engineering, procurement and construction management services for the expansion of the superabsorbent polymer plant and a new acrylic acid plant…