Krohne GmbH & Co. KG (Duisburg, Germany; www.krohne.com) and Samson AG (Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.samson.de) introduced the joint venture (JV) Focus-On (Dordrecht, the Netherlands; www.focus-on-process.com) at a press conference on September 19 in Frankfurt. Focus-On is a newly founded…
Today, Atonix Digital — a subsidiary of Black & Veatch Overland Park, Kansas; www.bv.com) focused on data-driven software applications — announces its new Wastewater Treatment Solution. The solution is geared to help facility operators identify previously undetectable changes in systems…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) announces an agreement with Methanex Corp. to supply oxygen, nitrogen and utilities to its upcoming methanol plant expansion project in Geismar, Louisiana. To serve Methanex and its other customers in the industrial basin that encompasses…
Honeywell today announced that St1 Nordic Oy (Helsinki, Finland) has licensed the UOP’s Ecofining renewable fuels technology to produce 4,000 barrels per day of diesel and jet fuel integrated with its refinery complex in Gothenburg, Sweden. Basic engineering design for…
Sulzer GTC Technology (Houston; www.sulzer.com) has signed an agreement with JSC SIBUR-Neftehim (SIBUR) to provide its licensed pyrolysis gasoline (pygas) processing technologies, including design of the fractionation, first and second stage hydrotreating, aromatics extraction and thermal hydrodealkylation technologies for the…
Honeywell today announced that Fujian Meide Petrochemical Co., Ltd. will use the Honeywell Process Reliability Advisor to provide prescriptive monitoring of its UOP C3 Oleflex unit in China. The Oleflex unit is designed to convert propane into 660,000 tons per…
The engineering software developer Aucotec AG (Hannover, Germany; www.aucotec.com) acquired a new major client in the oil, gas, wind and solar energy sectors: Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil; Stavanger, Norway; www.equinor.com), will be digitizing and maintaining its plants with Aucotec's data-driven,…
The Daesan integrated petroleum-refining and petrochemicals complex in South Korea, owned by Hanwha Total Petrochemical — A 50–50 joint venture between Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) and Hanwha Group (Seoul, South Korea; www.hanwha.com) — has started its new ethylene production…
TEESS, a 50/50 joint venture company, established by Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com), and Envision Group (Shanghai, China; www.envision-group.com), a global leading smart-energy-technology company, launches its commercial activity to develop on site distributed generation solar projects for B2B customers in…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is intensifying its research activities on silicon-based materials for high-performance batteries by taking a holding in Nexeon Ltd (Abingdon, U.K.; www.nexeon.co.uk). Wacker announced today that it is acquiring a 25% stake in the U.K.…