Total S.A.’s (Paris, France; www.total.com) petroleum-refining and chemicals platform in Antwerp has started up production of ethylene using ethane feedstock, which is extracted from natural gas and is significantly cheaper than oil-derived feedstock. Total has invested nearly $60 million to…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is setting aside € 100 million for the topic of digitalization and is also entering into a strategic partnership with IBM and the University of Duisburg-Essen, aimed at forging ahead with the digital change…
Realistic test conditions form a basic prerequisite for the successful development of Industry 4.0 applications for the process industry. Yet, developers frequently do not have access to this crucial process data. This situation is to be redressed with a new…
Reiner Block (52) is the new CEO of TÜV SÜD AG’s (Munich, Germany; www.tuev-sued.de) Industry Service Division, in which the international provider of quality, safety and sustainability solutions has pooled its engineering services designed to ensure the safe and reliable…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany: www.basf.com) plans to build a new world-scale plant to produce ibuprofen in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Ibuprofen is an active pharmaceutical ingredient that is used for treating pain, fever, and inflammation. The new plant, is scheduled to come…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel; Moscow, Russia; www.nornik.ru/en) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding and entered exclusive negotiations to cooperate on the supply of raw materials for future battery materials production for lithium-ion batteries…
As part of the company-wide transformation program, which includes the sale of non-core assets, Amec Foster Wheeler (London, U.K.; www.amecfw.com) announces that it has completed the sale of its circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) boiler business to Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd (SHI),…
Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) is increasing its manufacturing capacity for large crusher wear parts castings used in minerals processing by investing in a second melting furnace at the Isithebe foundry in South Africa. The €3.5-million investment will ensure the…
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental & Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd. (MHIEC; Yokohama, Japan; www.mhi.com) has received an order to build a municipal solid-waste incineration plant in Shanghai, China. Once completed, the waste-to-energy plant will have the largest waste-treatment capacity in the…
Nuberg Engineering Ltd. (New Delhi; www.nubergepc.com) has been chosen by Egyptian Petrochemicals Co. (EPC) as a single-point solution company — from concept to commissioning — for caustic soda-chlorine plant in Alexandria, Egypt. The project envisions setting up a turnkey project…