The production of value-added products from renewable raw materials is Borregaard's strategy. GEA (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.gea.com) is supporting its customer with the supply of a turnkey plant for the spray drying of lignosulfonate in the double-digit million range. The solution…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) inaugurated a new, world-scale antioxidants manufacturing plant at its Caojing site in Shanghai, China. With an annual capacity of 42,000 tons, the plant will produce antioxidants and associated forms and blends for the plastic additives…
In December 2018, the no. 1 AOD (argon-oxygen-decarburization) converter modernized by Primetals Technologies Ltd. (London, U.K.; www.primetals.com) was started up at the Tornio works of Outokumpu Stainless Oy (Helsinki, Finland), a stainless-steel producer. The project involved fitting the converter with…
WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) has been awarded an engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction (EPC) contract for the Pipestone Processing Facility in Alberta Canada by Encana Corp. (Encana). Keyera Partnership, a subsidiary of Keyera Corp, will own the Pipestone…
Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) has won a significant order to deliver a large-scale iron-ore pellet plant and related engineering services to Tata Steel for the expansion of the Kalinganagar operation located in Odisha state in India. The order has…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Adani Group (Ahmedabad, India; www.adani.com) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the eve of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2019, to evaluate a major joint investment in the acrylics value chain. This…
Today, PJSC Nizhnekamskneftekhim and Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) signed contracts for license and engineering services for a new methanol unit with a capacity of 500,000 ton/yr. The signing ceremony took place in TAIF headquarters. Azat Bikmurzin, the director…
Yesterday, Martin Brudermüller, chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com), and Lin Shaochun, Vice Governor of Guangdong Province, signed a Framework Agreement in Ludwigshafen setting out further details of BASF’s plan to establish a new,…
Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) announced on October 26, 2018 its decision to invest in a new greenfield valve technology center in Jiaxing, China. The groundbreaking ceremony for the new plant took place today. The new technology center will start…
thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) has recently won a contract from ArcelorMittal to supply a new coke battery for the Tubarão steel plant, located in the Espirito Santo state in southeastern Brazil. The new coke battery will replace…