Indian Peroxide Limited (IPL; Delhi NCR, India; www.indianperoxide.com), one of India's major manufacturers and suppliers of specialty chemicals, has launched its new hydrogen peroxide plant complex in Gujarat, India. The state-of-the-art manufacturing facility produces industrial grade, premium quality and environmental…
Honeywell says that Sonatrach S.p.A. will use a suite of Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) technologies to produce 200,000 metric tons per year of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE), a high-octane gasoline additive that reduces emissions in automobile exhaust. Honeywell…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded the engineering, procurement and construction of Valero Energy Corp.’s combined heat and power cogeneration project at its Pembroke Refinery in Wales, U.K. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract value in the third quarter of…
Air Liquide Engineering & Construction (Frankfurt am Main, Gertmany; www.engineering-airliquide.com) has signed a contract to supply an air separation unit (ASU) to Shandong Runyin Bio-Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. (Runyin), a subsidiary of Shandong Ruixing Group, a large chemical company and…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) continues to optimize its global production network for the manufacture of iron oxide pigments. Through targeted debottlenecking at the Krefeld-Uerdingen site, the specialty chemicals company has increased the product availability of its Bayferrox and Colortherm…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Sinopec Corp. (Beijing, China; www.sinopecgroup.com) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Beijing to further strengthen their partnership in upstream and downstream chemical production in China. The partners intend to build an additional…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has invested in the biotechnology start-up In Ovo through its venture capital unit and now holds a minority stake in the company, based in Leiden, the Netherlands. Co-leading this Series A investment is Singapore-based…
To respond to the growing global demand in the valve market, Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) has decided to invest in a new green-field valve technology center in Jiaxing, China. The new-build plant will strengthen Metso's valve and related products…
In pressure vessel design, use this procedure for determining the individual permissible flange loads for joints between pressure vessel nozzles and connected pipework At the initial design stage of pressure vessels with nozzles that are provided with standard flanges according…
Kolon BASF innoPOM Inc. — the 50:50 joint venture (JV) between Kolon Plastics (Gwacheon, South Korea; www.kolonplastics.com) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) established in 2016 — today started operations at its new polyoxymethylene (POM) production plant in Gimcheon, Korea.…