The Wacker Group (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) opened a new competence center for cement and concrete applications in Shanghai, China. The laboratory will develop novel silicone-based products and solutions that are able to improve the performance of cement and concrete and…
GEA (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.gea.com) has received an order from thomas zement for a turnkey plant for the reduction of oxides of nitrogen (NOx) in fluegas. The order comprises two new reactors for selective catalytic reduction (SCR) including handling of the…
A leading industrial gas company recently selected Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) to supply three Dresser-Rand 5HHE-VL-NL reciprocating compressors for a new, state-of- the-art steam methane reformer (SMR) in Texas. The SMR will provide high-purity hydrogen for the gas company’s…
Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) has been awarded a major contract to supply pyro-processing and comminution equipment for a new lithium-hydroxide processing plant at Albemarle Corp.'s Kemerton site near Bunbury in South Western Australia. The construction of this greenfield project…
Toray Industries, Inc., (Tokyo, Japan; www.toray.com) has decided to establish a new company in Foshan, China that will engage in production and sales of water-treatment membrane products, including reverse osmosis (RO), nanofiltration (NF), ultrafiltration (UF), microfiltration (MF) and membrane bioreactor…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will increase the production capacity of alkylethanolamines (AEOA) by 20% at the BASF Verbund site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. After the start-up in 2020, BASF’s global annual nameplate capacity of AEOA will be more than 110,000…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will increase the production capacity for its sodium methylate plant in Guaratinguetá, Brazil. The nameplate capacity will increase by 30%, from currently 60,000 metric tons to 80,000 metric tons. The new capacity will come onstream…
In December 2018, a Meros off-gas cleaning plant supplied by Primetals Technologies, Ltd. (London, U.K.; www.primetals.com) was started up at sinter plant No. 3 of Turkish steel producer Karabük Demir Celik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (Kardemir), followed by the Meros…
At Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) Catalyst business line’s manufacturing site in Dombivli, India, the company is commissioning a new plant initially for the production of KALCAT and in the long-term also Metalyst Activated Metal Catalysts. This new state…
HPCL Rajasthan Refinery Ltd. (HRRL), a joint venture company between HPCL and the Government of Rajasthan, India, has selected Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) to supply several advanced technologies for its state-of-the-art 9 MTPA integrated refinery and petrochemical complex to be…