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Stamicarbon signs contract for urea melt and granulation plant for ShchekinoAzot in Russia

Stamicarbon BV (Sittard, the Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the innovation and license company of Maire Tecnimont Group, has signed a contract for license, process design package (PDP) and proprietary equipment supply for a grass root urea melt and granulation plant for ShchekinoAzot,…

Clariant Catalysts and Wuxi Xiyuan win further contracts for formaldehyde production projects in China

Clariant Catalysts (Munich, Germany; www.clariant.com) will be collaborating with its engineering partner, Wuxi Xiyuan, in two new projects to supply their joint formaldehyde production technology. The new contracts, awarded by Shandong Yushiju Chemical and Shandong Sunny Wealth New Materials, will…

Metso closes acquisition of HighService Service in Chile

Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) has successfully completed its acquisition of HighService Service, the service division of the mining engineering, construction and technology company HighService Corp. (Santiago, Chile; www.highservice.com). HighService Service offers its customers a variety of services from maintenance…

Air Liquide Engineering & Construction signs a new supply contract in China

Air Liquide Engineering & Construction (Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.engineering-airliquide.com) has signed a new supply contract with Baosteel Zhanjiang Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.( Zhanjiang Steel), a subsidiary of Baosteel Group, a large-scale enterprise designed to meet demand for iron…

BASF invests in silicate-based specialty chemicals business

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is investing a mid-range double-digit euro million sum in the modernization of its silica plant at the Düsseldorf-Holthausen site. The investment is earmarked for the modernization and improvement of existing facilities over the next ten…

Axens Awarded complete residue hydrocracking solution towards naphtha production in China

Shenghong Refining & Chemical (Lianyungang) Co., Ltd has selected Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) ebullated-bed residue hydrocracking technology H-Oil for a capacity of 3,200,000 ton/yr in combination with a 3,450,000 ton/yr distillates hydrocracking technology HyK as the key units of its…

Buss-SMS-Canzler celebrates 100th anniversary

Innovative strength is the most important competencies of Buss-SMS-Canzler GmbH's (Düren, Germany; www.sms-vt.com). This spirit does not remain stuck in the past, but continues to advance and break new grounds allowing it to celebrate this great anniversary in 2019. On…

Successfully proven brine treatment for chlor-alkali plants

A leading producer of chlor-alkali products on the Indian market benefits from the improved efficiency of its chlor-alkali electrolysis by applying the new Lewatit MDS TP 208 as ion exchange resin from Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com). The finely dispersed…

Qatargas and BASF sign gas-treating-technology license agreement for LNG trains

Qatargas Operating Company Ltd. (Qatargas; Doha, Qatar), acting on behalf of Qatar Petroleum, and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) have signed a technology license agreement for the North Field Expansion Project in Qatar. Under the agreement, BASF is providing two…

Toyo Awarded Propylene Splitter Project in Japan

TEC Project Services Corp. (TPS), a domestic subsidiary of Toyo Engineering Corp. (Chiba, Japan;  www.toyo-eng.com) was awarded a propylene splitter project from Maruzen Petrochemical Co., Ltd. to produce a high-grade product at Chiba Plant. TPS is in charge of detailed…