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Total to develop 25 MW of solar rooftops in Thailand

Total SA (Paris, France; www.total.com), through its affiliate Total Solar Distributed Generation, has signed a binding contract to provide 25 megawatt-peak (MWp) of solar rooftops for 24 facilities of one of the largest food companies in Thailand, Betagro. Each one…

SNC-Lavalin selected for engineering and procurement services for Rochester POA11

SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded a contract to provide engineering, procurement and overall project management services for the Rochester POA11 Project in Nevada, by Coeur Rochester, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Coeur Mining, Inc. This phase of the…

Haltermann Carless installs last major component of new hydrogenation unit

Haltermann Carless (www.haltermann-carless.com), a company of HCS Group (Hamburg, Germany; www.h-c-s-group.com) and a leading supplier of high-value hydrocarbon solutions, has completed the installation of the main components at the new hydrogenation plant in Speyer, Germany, with the installation of a…

PKN ORLEN Licenses Honeywell UOP technology for new phenol complex In Poland

Honeywell says that PKN ORLEN (www.orlen.pl) plans to use the UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.: www.uop.com) Q-Max and Phenol 3G technologies to produce 200,000 metric tons per annum of phenol at its facility in Płock, Poland. UOP is providing a license…

IPCO acquires Ingeniera de Procesos

IPCO Germany GmbH (Fellbach, Germany; www.ipco.com) has acquired the Spanish company Ingeniera de Procesos S.A. (IdP), a supplier of processing equipment and spare parts, primarily to the chemical and sulfur segments, in Spain. IdP has for over 30 years had…

BASF further invests in Europe to strengthen global leadership position for battery materials for electric vehicles

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is announcing a new battery materials production site in Schwarzheide, Germany, as part of its multi-step investment plan to support the European electric vehicle (EV) value chain. This state-of-the art plant will produce cathode active…

Clariant achieves 100% ‘green electricity’ consumption at Knapsack production site

Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) will continue to power its BU Additives production facility in Knapsack, Germany, solely with 100% renewable electricity following the site’s successful pilot switch one year ago. This underlines Clariant’s continued efforts of shifting to the use…

Launch of a Pilot Plant to Manufacture European Batteries for Electric Vehicles

During French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to the Saft Nersac plant near Angoulême, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com), through its affiliate Saft, and PSA with Opel, are announcing their plan to combine their know-how to develop…

Sulzer wins contract to supply innovative and compact gas dehydration technology for ExxonMobil

Sulzer Chemtech (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzer.com) is supplying the first ever industrial scale cMIST system for natural gas dehydration, with start-up scheduled for the second half of 2020. The unit will be installed at an onshore ExxonMobil facility in the U.S.…

Gaz Sintez chooses Topsoe’s SynCOR Methanol for plant near Saint Petersburg, Russia

Gaz Sintez has nominated Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) as licensor of its methanol plant in the Leningrad Region, Russia. The plant will produce 1.6 million tons per year of АА grade methanol based on Topsoe’s SynCOR Methanol technology.…