Shell (The Hague, the Netherlands) says it will replace the ethylene steam-cracker furnaces at its Moerdijk petrochemicals complex, the Netherlands, in a move that will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Shell will install eight new furnaces in place of 16…
MAAG Group (Oberglatt, Switzerland) has strengthened its digital capabilities by acquiring Germany-based XanTec Steuerungs- und EDV Technik GmbH (XanTec). XanTec plans, designs and manufactures advanced industrial control systems that are employed in production plants, pelletizing systems and extruders, thereby improving…
Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) and Comprimo (part of Worley) have announced a global strategic alliance to jointly license the TopClaus sulfur removal and recovery solution. TopClaus helps users achieve more than 99.9% sulfur removal efficiency (SRE) by integrating two…
MHI Compressor International Corp. (MCO-I; Houston) will supply the compression for Gulf Coast Ammonia’s (GCA) new state-of-the-art ammonia production facility in Texas City. The equipment will be purchased by Air Products, which will build and operate the facility in parallel…
Chemical processing and handling equipment manufacturer IPCO Germany GmbH (Fellbach, Germany) is celebrating 40 years continuous production of its market-leading Rotoform granulation system. The development of this innovative rotary dropforming technology in 1980 brought new levels of quality and…
IntelliSense.io (Cambridge, England) and BASF Venture Capital GmbH (BVC; Ludwigshafen, Germany) today announced that BVC is leading a strategic investment round in IntelliSense.io with follow-on participation from a group of U.K.-based technology angel investors, including Steve Garnett and Stephen Kelly.…
Babcock Borsig Service Arabia Ltd. has signed its first digitalization contract with Saudi Tabreed Operations & Maintenance Co. This is the first digitalization awarding secured by Bilfinger Middle East for the region. Saudi Tabreed, a highly experienced district cooling scheme…
"PROTINUS" (lat. forward, further") is the name of the project with which the biopharmaceutical company CSL Behring will significantly increase the production capacity of immunoglobulin at its site. GEA AG (Düsseldorf, Germany) received the order for the process plant, the…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) has been selected to provide its proprietary AP-X Natural Gas Liquefaction Process technology and equipment to Qatargas for the first phase of Qatar Petroleum’s massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) production expansion project, commonly known as…
Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (MHPS; Yolohama, Japan), has received an order for an Air Quality Control System (AQCS) to be installed in the newly-built power generation facility of a chemical plant in Puławy in southeastern Poland. The adoption of…