Indian refinery company HPCL-Mittal Energy Ltd. (HMEL) has chosen Haldor Topsoe A/S’s (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) diesel hydrotreater unit and hydrogen generation facilities to meet their upgrading requirements. The revamped refinery in Bathinda, Punjab will meet the BS VI (equivalent to…
Showa Denko (SDK; Tokyo, Japan; www.sdk.co.jp) has established a wholly-owned subsidiary, Showa Chemicals of America Inc. (SCA), in Austin, Texas, aiming to strengthen its sale of high-purity gases for electronics in the U.S. American semiconductor manufacturers have 15% of the…
Half a year after the announcement of the 2030 strategy, MOL Group (Budapest, Hungary; https://molgroup.info/en) has reached an important milestone in its industrial transformational journey. The license agreements signed with Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) and thyssenkrupp AG (Essen,…
The Business Unit Catalysts (Munich, Germany) of Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) today announced the opening of a new office for its Catalysts business in Yinchuan city, capital of the Ningxia Hui autonomous region in China. With the new branch, Clariant…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has closed the previously announced transaction to sell its Bleaching Clay and Mineral Adsorbents businesses to EP Engineered Clays Corp., an affiliate of EP Minerals, LLC, a worldwide leader in engineered products derived from industrial…
Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) announced today that Farabi Petrochemicals Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) will use Honeywell UOP technologies for a new complex in Yanbu to expand its production of biodegradable detergents. The construction of the new complex is expected to be completed…
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc. (MHIA; Houston; www.mitsubishitoday.com), a fully owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo), has completed the construction of a large-scale two-train polyethylene (PE) plant in the U.S. The construction order was placed in 2014…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) today announced the start-up of a new air separation unit (ASU) to supply 700 ton/d of nitrogen to Samsung’s display manufacturing complex in Tangjeong, South Korea. Samsung’s Tangjeong complex, the world’s first and largest sixth-generation…
Canada Kuwait Petrochemical Corp. (CKPC) has chosen Honeywell UOP’s (Desplains, Ill.; www.uop.com) C3 Oleflex technology to produce 550,000 metric tons per year of polymer-grade propylene at CKPC’s proposed facility in Sturgeon County near Edmonton, Alberta. CKPC is a joint venture…
thyssenkrupp (Essen, Germany) today inaugurated its technology center for the oleochemical industry in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, to deliver world-class engineering solutions to global customers. Representing an investment of more than €18 million (~THB680 million), Map Ta Phut will become…