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ACHEMA 2018, Day 1

The first day of the Achema tradefair has just finished. You can read the first issue of the Achema Daily here: https://epaper.vogel.de/process_87118/index.html?marketo_id=13094102&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkRkaFlqVTJORFEwTVRNMCIsInQiOiJkazUrakI5V3RsUU9JTVZpK0ViSEZUN3ZGaGR4VVVYVEFVNWdLREpHMWlOV0ZveHEzR3dmdXBzWUQ2OHhGZVNJS3dVQVBUZnlWMEtPTU1SRWpcL01NRUxKZFVsRDB4eHNpb0U2Tit5cW51SVR6d0h6WE5vSkp1a2VRMTNGT21XTzMifQ%3D%3D

Messer opens new competence center in Krefeld

Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany; www.messergroup.com) opened a new competence center in Krefeld on 6 June 2018. It will serve as a hub for testing gas application technologies in the areas of Food, Industrial Cryogenic Applications, Cutting & Welding,…

Sener starts up Noor Ouarzazate III solar receiver

Engineering and technology company Sener (www.engineeringandconstruction.sener) is putting into operation, on a multi-phase basis, the different components of the Noor Ouarzazate (Morocco) III solar thermal power plant. This plant is the second plant designed and built by Sener using its…

Dürr forms a leading supplier of industrial environmental technology

Dürr AG (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany;  www.durr.com) is forming a leading supplier of environmental technology systems for industrial exhaust-air purification, following a corporate acquisition in the United States. The Group is acquiring the industrial environmental technology business of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises,…

CNOOC and Shell JV starts production at new petrochemical units in China

China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC; Beijing, China) and Shell Nanhai B.V. (Shell; www.shell.com) today announce the official start-up of the second ethylene cracker at their Nanhai petrochemicals complex in Huizhou, Guangdong Province, China. Several linked derivative units have also…

Clariant wins contract to supply Catofin catalysts for world’s largest PDH unit

Clariant (Munich, Germany; www.clariant.com) was awarded a contract by Jinneng Science & Technology Company, to design the world’s largest single-train propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit in collaboration with CB&I. The plant will be located in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China (photo) and…

Praxair Signs Long-Term Agreement with Samsung to Supply World-Scale Semiconductor Complex in South Korea

Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has signed a long-term agreement to supply ultra-high purity industrial gases, including nitrogen, oxygen and argon, as well as hydrogen, to Samsung’s semiconductor manufacturing facility in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi province, South Korea. This is Praxair’s largest…

Wacker Opens New Production Site for Silicones in South Korea

Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) has opened a new production site for silicone elastomers in South Korea. The plant is located around 100 km southeast of Seoul at Jincheon, where the Group has already been producing silicone sealants since…

Evonik JV expands capacity for TAA derivatives in China

Evonik Tianda (Liaoyang) Chemical Additive Co., Ltd. (ETL) has increased its production capacity for triacetonamine (TAA) derivatives in Liaoyang by 50%. With the expansion, the joint venture (JV) of Evonik China and the Chinese NEPC (Northeast No.1 Electric Power Construction…