BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) invests in another production plant for specialty zeolites at its Ludwigshafen, Germany, headquarters site. These specialty zeolites will be used to produce state-of-the-art emissions catalysts for heavy-duty and light-duty diesel vehicles. Due to an increasingly…
Honeywell says that its UOP Russell business (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) will provide a turn-key cryogenic gas processing plant to Cureton Midstream, LLC (Denver, Colo). The new plant is designed to extract 99% of ethane and 100% of propane from…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) has been selected by Aerie Pharmaceuticals Inc. to provide engineering, procurement and construction management services (EPCM) for Aerie’s first pharmaceutical-manufacturing facility, located in the Industrial Development Authority (IDA)’s advanced technology building in Athlone,…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has been awarded the oxygen supply for the new production facility of LG Chem (LGC), Korea’s number one chemical company and one of the largest chemical companies in the world. Air Products will supply…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) and Enviral, a.s. (Leopoldov; Slovakia; www.enviral.sk), the largest producer of bioethanol in Slovakia, today announced that they have signed a license agreement on sunliquid cellulosic ethanol technology (www.sunliquid.com). Enviral has acquired a license to use Clariant’s…
The new 1.8-million metric ton per year (m.t./yr) Midrex hot briquetted iron (HBI) plant at Lebedinsky Mining and Processing Integrated Works (LGOK), in Gubkin Russia, has announced the completion of its performance guarantee test (PGT). The plant, Midrex HBI-3, was…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) announces the signing of a joint-venture (JV) contract with Tiangang Auxiliary Co., Ltd., a privately owned producer and leading supplier of ultraviolet (UV) light stabilizers in China. Subject to merger control clearance, the contract shall become…
Amec Foster Wheeler (London, U.K.; amecfw.com) has been awarded a $604-million engineering, procurement and construction (EPC), fixed-price contract for part of a $1.85-billion methanol plant being developed by Yuhuang Chemical Inc (YCI), a U.S.-based subsidiary of China’s Shandong Yuhuang Chemical…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) recently signed a new long term agreement with Pemex Transformación Industrial, a subsidiary of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), the state-owned oil-and-gas company, to supply hydrogen to Pemex’s refinery located at Tula de Allende, in the state…
Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) announced today that CNPC Guangxi Petrochemical Co. has successfully converted its existing pressure swing adsorption (PSA) unit to Polybed PSA technology, enabling it to produce high-purity hydrogen. The newly upgraded unit, located in Qinzhou…