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thyssenkrupp to build two major polymer plants for SASA in Turkey

thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions’ (Essen Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) subsidiary Uhde Inventa-Fischer has signed a contract to build two new world-scale polymer plants for SASA Polyester Sanayi A.Ş in Adana, Turkey. One plant is planned to produce 1,050 metric tons per day (380,000…

BASF opens world-scale chemical catalysts manufacturing plant in China

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com ) today celebrated the official opening of its new, world-scale chemical catalysts manufacturing plant in Caojing, Shanghai, China. The new plant is BASF’s first chemical catalysts manufacturing facility in the Asia Pacific region. The BASF…

KBR awarded Concept and FEED contract for Statoil’s Northern Lights Project

KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded the Concept and FEED (front-end engineering design) contract by Statoil for their ground-breaking Northern Lights Project, to develop an onshore carbon dioxide storage terminal in Norway. The terminal is a key component of…

Evonik to acquire high-concentrates additive compounding business from 3M

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is to acquire 3M’s high-concentrates additive compounding business, and the corresponding agreement has been signed. The specialty chemicals group is further expanding its capabilities in the highly profitable business with specialty additives. Evonik already…

ENCE awards Sener contract to build a low-emission biomass electricity generation plant in Huelva

Engineering and technology group Sener (Madrid, Spain; www.engineeringandconstruction.sener.com) has signed a contract with ENCE Energía y Celulosa to build a new low-emission biomass electricity generation plant in its energy complex in Huelva (Spain). The contract signed is a turnkey arrangement…

Toyo awarded expansion of naphtha-cracking furnace project in Japan

Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, www.toyo-eng.co.jp) was awarded a project to construct a naphtha-cracking furnace of Tosoh Corp. for producing ethylene at its Yokkaichi Complex in October. Toyo had participated in this construction project from an early stage. This naphtha-cracking…

Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries to expand Al-Zour refinery with Honeywell technology

Honeywell says that Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Co. will use a range of process technologies from Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill. www.uop.com) for the expansion of its refining and petrochemical complex at Al-Zour, south of Kuwait City. Honeywell UOP will…

Air​ ​Liquide​ ​E&C ​ ​wins​ ​contract​ ​for​ ​biodiesel​ ​plant in Kansas

Air Liquide Engineering & Construction (Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.engineering-airliquide.com) recently signed a new agreement with Cargill for engineering and supply​ ​of​ ​a​ ​world-scale​ ​biodiesel​ ​plant​ ​in​ ​Wichita​ ​Kansas. The​ ​state-of-the-art​ ​biodiesel​ ​plant​ ​is​ ​planned​ ​to​ ​start​ ​operation​ ​in​ ​January​…

EuroChem sells Severneft-Urengoy

EuroChem Group AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.eurochemgroup.com), a leading global fertilizer company, announces the sale of Severneft-Urengoy to Novatek PJSC, one of the largest independent natural gas producers in Russia. The price and terms of the deal have not been disclosed.…

Samson opens new Innovation Center

After two years of construction, Samson AG (Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.samson.de) has opened the Innovation Center — the most modern R&D and test center for valve engineering — on the eastern end of its Frankfurt site. The new, integrated…