Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, the Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the innovation and license company of Maire Tecnimont Group (www.mairetecnimont.com), has signed a license agreement for the construction of a greenfield urea melt plant owned by Brunei Fertilizer Industries SDN BHD, which will be…
Bestgrand Chemical Group has announced the successful start-up of its wet-gas sulfuric acid (WSA) plant – the world’s largest with a production capacity of 300,000 ton/yr of sulfuric acid. The plant will treat 131,000 tons of acid gas over-the-fence per…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) says it has been awarded both a license and engineering (LBED) and a proprietary equipment supply contract by Cangzhou Dahua New Materials Co., Ltd. (CDNM) to build a new polycarbonate plant in Cangzhou City, China. Under…
Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (MHPS; Yokohama, Japan; www.mhps.com) has received the first order for its pressurized hybrid power generation system integrating solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) stacks with micro gas turbines (MGT). Launched for the commercial and industrial market,…
The world’s largest energy-from-waste (EfW) plant is to be built in the Emirate of Dubai. Hitachi Zosen Inova AG (HZI; Zurich, Switzerland; www.hz-inova.com), together with BESIX Group, Belgium’s largest construction company operating in the Middle East, has been selected by…
IGP Methanol LLC (Houston; www.ipgmethanol.com) has awarded Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) a contract for engineering of a methanol plant that will produce 1.8 million ton/yr, which is part of a planned complex with a total production capacity of…
UkrGasVydobuvannya (UGV) has begun using Honeywell UOP’s (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) HYT-4118 Unity hydrotreating catalyst to produce ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel at the Shebelinsky refinery in Andreyevka, Kharkov Region, in eastern Ukraine. The HYT-4118 catalyst removes sulfur from petroleum feeds…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) recently signed a new long-term contract with Kumho Mitsui Chemical Inc (KMCI), a major chemical group in South Korea, according to which Air Liquide will increase its supply to this customer of both hydrogen and…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) has been selected by Anglo American to provide engineering services to the company’s Los Bronces copper mine, located approximately 40 miles northeast of Santiago, Chile, in the Metropolitan Region. Situated at an altitude…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland: www.clariant.com), a world leader in specialty chemicals, today acknowledges the investment by chemical industry peer and partner Sabic (Riyahd, Saudia Arabia; www.sabic.com), which has acquired a 24.99% stake in Clariant. The acquisition of these stakes, which were…