BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will increase its production capacities for the chemical intermediate 1,4-butanediol (BDO) by 10% at its site in Geismar, Louisiana as of 2016. The company will then have a global capacity of BDO of 670,000 metric…
The Dow Chemical Company (Dow; Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) and the American Association of Chemistry Teachers (AACT) are partnering to invigorate chemistry education and support STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education in the nation’s schools. Dow and AACT will work…
Amec Foster Wheeler (London, U.K.; www.amecfw.com) has signed an agreement with D’Arcinoff Group, a U.S.-based investment and alternative technology development company, to provide engineering and technical services for an integrated 30,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) syngas-to-liquids facility, known as the…
On January 8, Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzer.com) agreed to acquire the business of InterWeld Inc. Ltd. (Belfast, Northern Ireland), a specialized weld overlay company, offering corrosion and erosion solutions to the power industry, particularly power generation, the oil-and-gas and…
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi-global.com) and Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) today announced the closing of their joint venture (JV) in the field of metallurgical industry. The new company is named Primetals Technologies, Ltd. and headquartered in…
KBR Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded the license and engineering contracts to perform front end engineering and design for a potential expansion of Mosaic’s Ammonia Plant in St. James, La. KBR’s “lean FEED” approach will debottleneck the plant…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that China has commissioned the first of 14 planned propylene production units using UOP technology to help close the global supply and demand gap for the key plastic building…
The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) announced today that a consortium that includes its Denmark-based subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S (B&W Vølund), has been awarded a $230 million contract to engineer, procure and construct a waste-to-energy…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that PetroChina Guangxi Petrochemical Co. (GXPC) is using UOP process technology to purify hydrogen at a new petroleum-refining complex in Qinzhou, Guangxi Province, China. With support from UOP’s local…
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental & Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd. (MHIEC), a group company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi-global.com), has received an order from the Yamagata Area Environmental Office Association, a body encompassing two cities and two…