Honeywell says that Zhejiang Satellite Petrochemical Co., Ltd. is using Honeywell UOP’s C3 Oleflex technology to produce 450,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of polymer-grade propylene for a new petrochemicals complex in China. This is the second C3 Oleflex unit…
Today, Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) announced the successful startup of its Catofin catalyst at Hengli Group’s new mixed-feed dehydrogenation plant in Dalian, China. The new unit combines propane dehydrogenation (PDH) with iso-butane dehydrogenation (BDH) process technologies, and it will produce…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin; www.tu-berlin.de) have signed an agreement to cooperate closely in the area of machine learning. The aim of the collaboration, Berlin-based Joint Lab for Machine Learning (BASLEARN), is to develop…
Halix B.V. (Leiden, the Netherlands; www.halix.nl), a contract development and manufacturing organization of clinical and commercial proteins and viral products, announced today that it has met its major milestone with the interim delivery of a new 6,700-m2 cGMP facility in…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) announced today that the company’s Catalysts business (Munich, Germany; www.clariant.com/catalysts) inaugurated a new services and support office in Jubail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Located in the eastern coast of the country, Jubail is the world’s largest…
The Chinese company Anhui Conch Cement is one of the world’s biggest cement producers. China alone accounted for around 2.2 billion tons, or about 56%, of total world cement production in 2018. Anhui Conch Cement recently placed an order with…
Today, Röhm GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany; www.roehm.com) successfully completed the carve-out from Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com). Evonik Industries’ Methacrylate Verbund is thus transferred to its new owner, Advent International GmbH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.adventinternational.com), as an independent company.…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract by Cupric Canyon Capital for its Khoemacau copper and silver project in northwest Botswana. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract value in the second quarter of…
Evonik Industries AG (www.evonik.com) and thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG (both Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) have agreed to grant a license for HPPO (hydrogen peroxide to propylene oxide) Technology to Zibo Qixiang Tengda Chemical Co. to produce propylene oxide. Corresponding agreements were…
The new on-line World Input-Output Database (WIOD) environmental accounts (www.wiod.org/release16) was launched today by the Joint Research Centre (JRC; https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en). The database contains figures on the industrial and household energy use of residents in more than 40 countries and their…