Black & Veatch (Overland Perk, Kan.; www.bv.com) has been selected to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services on four solar-energy projects for Florida Power & Light (FPL). The plants are part of an extensive renewable energy program designed to…
New orders booked in Germany by members of the VDMA Large Industrial Plant Manufacturers ́ Group (Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.grossanlagenbau.vdma.org) in 2016 totaled €18.9 billion, which was 3% down on the previous year and the lowest level since 2004.…
Rennovia Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.; www.rennovia.com) has now successfully commissioned, and is operating, all core pilot plant operations for its sugars to 1,6-hexanediol (1,6-HDO) process. 1,6-HDO is a specialty chemical widely used today in a variety of formulated products, including…
Honeywell today announced that Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (HPCL) is using technologies from Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) for the expansion and modernization of its refinery at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh on the southeast coast of India. Included in…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $460 million by NefteGazIndustriya, LLC, through project developer China National Chemical Engineering Co., for the Afipsky Oil Refinery Expansion Project in Krasnodar, Russia. The project was included…
Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) today announced that the Diamond Green Diesel facility in Norco, La., will expand its annual production capacity of renewable diesel from 10,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) to 18,000 bbl/d, using Honeywell UOP’s Ecofining process…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE; Palo Alto, Calif.) today announced that the companies will collaborate to develop one of the world’s largest supercomputers for industrial chemical research at BASF's Ludwigshafen headquarters this year. Based on…
Oxea GmbH (Monheim am Rhein, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com) has started the construction of a new world-scale propanol unit at its production site at Bay City, Texas. The new unit “Propanol 2” is scheduled to come on stream in 2018. Once commissioned,…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany: www.lanxess.com) continues to target growth. During the next three years, its business unit Advanced Industrial Intermediates will be investing some €100 million in expanding production facilities for chemical intermediates. Around €40 million each will be invested…
Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com), through its electronics gases joint venture in China, Linde LienHwa, is expanding its commitment to China and the Asia Pacific region through investments of over €110 million. The capital is being allocated for new on-site…