Following announcement of a joint development agreement in June 2020, Dow, Inc. (Midland, Mich.) and Shell Chemicals (London, U.K.) now report progress on their technology program to electrically heat steam cracker furnaces. This new route has the potential to significantly…
MAN Energy Solutions SE (Augsburg, Germany) and the thyssenkrupp business unit Uhde (Dortmund, Germany) are looking to drive forward the development, testing and marketing of autonomous turbomachinery systems operation for the nitric acid production industry and have signed a cooperation…
Following a successful Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) study in 2019, Air Liquide Engineering & Construction (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) will continue its partnership with Samsung Engineering to build a methanol production plant for Sarawak Petchem, a state-owned oil and…
Raízen Argentina, Shell licensee, has selected Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) for the modular supply of a fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) gasoline hydrodesulfurization unit Prime-G+ in its Buenos Aires refinery. Raízen Argentina is developing a modernization and expansion program for its existing…
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announces that its subsidiaries MET Development S.p.A. (Milan), Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, Netherlands) and NextChem S.p.A. (Rome) have started work on a renewable power–to-fertilizer plant in Kenya. MET Development has signed an agreement with Oserian Development…
Stamicarbon B.V. (Stittard, Netherlands) has launched Stami Green Ammonia Technology as a solution to tackle the global carbon challenge. The technology relies on renewable resources — instead of fossil fuels — to eliminate carbon from the process, paving the way…
Thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany) has won an order from Sedin Engineering Co., Ltd. to build and supply four new low-emission, stamp-charged coke oven batteries with a total annual capacity of 3.9 million tons for Hohhot Risun China Gas Energy…
Chennai Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (CPCL), a group company of Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. (IOCL) has selected Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) to supply several advanced technologies for its state-of-the-art 9 MTPA refinery to be set at Cauvery Basin at Nagapattinam in Tamil…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Umicore N.V. (Brussels, Belgium) have entered into a non-exclusive patent cross-license agreement covering a broad range of cathode active materials (CAM) and their precursors (PCAM), including chemistries such as nickel cobalt manganese (NCM), nickel cobalt…
Arkema (Colombes, France) is on track to begin production of Amino 11 and its flagship Rilsan polyamide 11 high performance polymer at the new plant on Jurong Island, Singapore (photo) in the first half of next year. This plant, for…