Gowns, caps and shoe covers to protect doctors, nurses and healthcare workers battling day in and day out against the coronavirus. The RadiciGroup (Bergamo, Italy; www.radicigroup.com) business area specializing in the production of high-performance nonwovens has brought to life a…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) and N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie held a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of three new nitrogen plants near Zuidbroek, Groningen. The groundbreaking on March 9 occurred after receiving project approval from The Netherland’s Economic Affairs…
Nacero Inc. (Houston; www.nacero.co) has signed agreements with Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) for basic engineering and license for a planned natural-gas-to-gasoline facility in Casa Grande, Arizona, with a capacity of 35,000 barrels-per-day (bbl/d) of finished gasoline. Pending final…
The new orders booked by the members of the VDMA Large Industrial Plant Manufacturers‘ Group group (AGAB; Frankfurt am Main; Germany; www.vdma.org) in 2019 were stable at the previous year's level of €18.3 billion. This means that the companies were…
Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) has signed a contract for the delivery of a calcining system to a customer in Russia. The order value of approximately €30 million has been booked in Metso’s Q1 2020 orders received. Commissioning of the…
Established in 1912, EBARA Group (Tokyo, Japan; www.ebara.co.jp) has been at the forefront of developing some of the world’s most advanced fluid technologies. In the Fluid Machinery and System division, the creation of process & instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) is one…
DOMO Chemicals GmbH (Leuna, Germany; www.domochemicals.com) has announced plans for a new state-of-the-art plant in Zhejiang, China. The new plant will be capable of producing 50,000 ton/yr of sustainable and innovative engineered nylon compounds. The company signed a new factory…
Preem (Stockholm, Sweden; www.preem.se) has chosen Haldor Topsoe A/S’s (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) HydroFlex renewable-fuel technology to produce clean renewable diesel and jet fuel at its Gothenburg refinery in Sweden. The 16,000 barrels-per-day (bbl/d) unit will have a yearly production capacity…
The development of renewable energy that is intermittent and decentralized requires the security of the electricity grid through flexible electricity storage capacities, especially in the form of batteries. Total S.A. (Paris France; www.total.com) has launched a battery-based energy storage project…
Fortum Oy (Espoo, Finland; www.fortum.com/batterysolutions), BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com), and Norilsk Nickel Harjavalta Oy (Harjavalta, Finland; www.nornickel.fi) have signed a letter of intent to plan a battery recycling cluster in Harjavalta, Finland, serving the electric vehicle market. This would…