Sulzer’s Chemtech division (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzer.com) has been granted a license covering the Total-patented Wash Tank Technology for Oil Processing. The main purpose of this technology is to enhance the removal of water, salt, and contaminants from oil and emulsions,…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has started up a new plant in Shanghai, China, for production of a wide range of organically modified specialty silicones. The products, which are manufactured in batch processes, are used in, for example, polyurethane,…
Air Liquide Engineering & Construction (Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.engineering-airliquide.com) has signed a cooperation agreement with Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo. Japan; www.m-chemical.co.jp) to license MCC’s butene-to-crude-butadiene technology used in the petrochemical industry. MCC has developed this state-of-the art oxidative…
Toyo Engineering Group (Toyo; Chiba, www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been awarded a construction project from PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk (CAP), Indonesia's largest petrochemical company. This project involves construction of a polyethylene production unit of HDPE, LLDPE and mLLDPE with a total…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen; www.basf) and SAP SE (Walldorf, both Germany; www.sap.com) announced the start of a project at BASF’s Ludwigshafen site to evaluate digital collaboration among business partners in the domain of engineering and maintenance. SAP Asset Intelligence Network, a…
The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB; Washington, D.C.; www.csb.gov) issued a Safety Alert (www.csb.gov/assets/1/7/CSB_Harvey2017_05.pdf) urging oil and chemical facilities to take special precautions when restarting in the wake of shutdowns due to Hurricane Harvey. The startup of…
Honeywell (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) today announced that Kuwait Paraxylene Production Co. (KPPC) will use two Honeywell Connected Plant services to improve the performance of its CCR Platforming and aromatics complex, which produces p-xylene for plastic fibers and films, at…
thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) has received a new order from the state-owned Brunei Fertilizer Industries. The contract for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of a new fertilizer production facility was signed on August 26, 2017 and…
EEW Energy from Waste GmbH (EEW; Helmstedt Germany; www.eew-energyfromwaste.com) and AkzoNobel’s (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) Specialty Chemicals business agreed to extend their partnership for the supply of sustainable steam from EEW to the Chemical Park Delfzijl through to the year…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany, www.evonik.com) is building a new production plant for specialty copolyesters at its Witten site in Germany. As binders for paints, specialty copolyesters are used in coil coatings and, increasingly, in food can coatings. The company…