Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) plans to build a second liquid hydrogen production facility in California to meet increasing product demand from several customer markets, including the growing fleet of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCV) in the state. Project…
JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.com) has been awarded the contract for the construction of chemical plants that will be the foundation of a high-performance synthetic-resin manufacturing and sales undertaking in Thailand involving Kuraray Co., Ltd., PTT Global Chemical Public Co.…
BASF SE (Luswigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is investing in a new production facility for mobile emissions catalysts at its Pudong site in Shanghai, China. The new 30,000-square-meter facility will house multiple manufacturing lines, providing a full range of emissions control technologies…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Saudi Kayan, a Saudi joint stock company leading in the field of chemicals, polymers and specialty products. As defined by the MoU, both parties have agreed to evaluate…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has developed a new propane dehydrogenation (PDH) technology — tradenamed K-PRO — that offers high propylene selectivity and conversion. This technology is based on KBR's catalytic olefins technology (K-COT), which is a commercially proven fluidized-bed technology…
The Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) will use the dual-pressure ammonia process developed by thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Milton Keynes, U.K.; www.thyssenkrupp-materials.co.uk) in the new “Phosphate 3” ammonia plant at its fertilizer complex. As a subcontractor of the South Korean…
LLC Novatek – Ust-Luga has chosen the Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) Convection Reformer (HTCR) for hydrogen production at its petroleum refinery in Ust-Luga, Russia. The modular HTCR technology lived up to Novatek’s strict requirements for minimal water consumption,…
Honeywell says that the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) will use Honeywell UOP’s (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) pressure swing adsorption (PSA) technology to supply high-quality hydrogen as part of the modernization of the Heydar Aliyev Oil Refinery (HAOR)…
Eurochem Group AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.eurochemgroup.com) and Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, the Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the innovation and license company of Maire Tecnimont Group (www.mairetecnimont.com), announce the formal opening of Russia’s first urea ammonium sulphate (UAS) plant at EuroChem’s Novomoskovskiy Azot plant,…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has started production of its latest fungicide innovation Revysol at its site in Hannibal, Missouri. With this new active ingredient, BASF will provide farmers worldwide with a new tool to ensure healthy, disease-free crops for…