Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) has signed an agreement with PKN Orlen for Vegan Technology License and Process Book Supply for the production of renewable diesel and jet fuel, through hydrotreating of vegetable oils in its Płock Refinery in Poland. Based…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) today inaugurated the second phase of its new, world-scale antioxidants manufacturing plant at its Caojing site in Shanghai, China. The second phase comprises a synthesis plant to produce the antioxidants Irgafos 168 and Irganox 1076.…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract by Hainan Huasheng New Material Technology Co., Ltd. (Hainan Huasheng) to license Mitsubishi Chemical Corp's (MCC) proprietary Bisphenol A (BPA) technology for a new plant in Dongfang City, Hainan Province, China.…
Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) has secured a contract with Serba Dinamik International for the engineering and procurement of a new modular chlor-alkali plant. The greenfield plant with a capacity of 90 tons of chlorine per day will…
Toray Industries Inc.’s (Tokyo, Japan; www.toray.com) Romembra reverse osmosis (RO) and Torayfil ultrafiltration (UF) membrane technologies (www.toraywater.com) have been selected for a new seawater desalination facility in Brazil, which is set to become the largest in the country. ArcelorMittal (www.arcelormitall.com),…
Project management, engineering, manufacturing and construction firm Nuberg EPC (New Delhi, India; www.nubergepc.com) has been awarded a contract for the expansion of an existing 45-ton/d chlor-alkali plant and Greenfield calcium chloride plant project in Sohar, Oman by Oman Chlorine. The…
As part of Citeo’s call for projects to promote eco-design and recycling and recovery projects for plastic and paper in France, leading international energy company Total S.A. (Paris; www.total.com), plastic recycling technology provider Recycling Technologies (www.rtech.co.uk), and global brands Nestlé…
In the second edition of its guide for chemical and petrochemical manufacturing, Mettler Toledo (Urdorf, Switzerland; www.mt.com) reveals how the latest trends in digital analytics have helped customers solve various measurement challenges and gain full measurement control of critical parameters.…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has officially launched its smart Verbund project in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, China, and commenced building its first plants. It marks a milestone of the company’s $10-billion investment project announced in July 2018. The first plants…
Honeywell announced that Enterprise Products Partners L.P. will use Honeywell UOP’s (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) C3 Oleflex technology in its second propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant, called “PDH 2.” Located near Mont Belvieu, Texas, PDH 2 will produce 750,000 metric tons…