Over the past three years, Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany; www.messergroup.com) has invested 37.4 million euros in the expansion of its Hungarian operations. The company recently signed a contract for the construction of a new onsite gas facility with…
McDermott International, Inc. (Houston; www.mcdermott.com) announced that it has been awarded a sizeable technology contract for Next Wave Energy Partners, LP's grassroots alkylate production facility, known as Project Traveler, in Pasadena, Texas. McDermott's Lummus Technology is providing the PDP and…
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Desalitech Ltd. (Boston, Mass.; www.desalitech.com), a closed-circuit reverse osmosis (CCRO) company. The transaction is expected to close in January 2020, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.…
BP plc (London; www.bp.com) and Arzeda (Seattle, Wash.; www.azeda.com) are pleased to announce they have entered a second extended collaboration agreement for developing a bio-process for production of a renewable chemical of high strategic and industrial interest to BP.After successful…
Baltic Chemical Plant LLC (BCP), a wholly owned subsidiary of RusGasDobycha, has selected Univation Technologies’ (Houston; www.univation.com) UNIPOL PE Process for six reactor lines to be located at the Ust-Luga marine port located in Leningradsky Region, Russia. Each UNIPOL PE…
The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC; www.adnoc.ae) signed a Framework Agreement with Reliance Industries Ltd.(RIL; Mumbai, India; www.ril.com) to explore development of an Ethylene Dichloride (EDC) facility in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi.Under the terms of the agreement, ADNOC and RIL…
Sludge is a byproduct of processes carried out in industry and agriculture. It is very wet, so disposing of it is difficult. A pilot project at Stora Enso Oyj’s (Helsinki, Finland; www.storaenso.com) Heinola Mill in Finland addresses this challenge using…
Zhejiang Satellite Petrochemical Co., Ltd. is using a Polybed pressure swing adsorption (PSA) unit supplied by Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) to provide high-purity hydrogen to its integrated refining and petrochemicals complex in China. The PSA unit purifies hydrogen…
INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany; www.ineos-styrolution.com) and Agilyx (Tigard, Ore.; www.agilyx.com) announced that they are advancing the development of a polystyrene (PS) chemical recycling facility in Channahon, Illinois. The facility will be capable of processing up to 100 tons per day of…
Anellotech is significantly expanding its program with Plas-TCat, a new process technology aiming to convert a wide range of plastic waste directly into chemicals, which can then be used to make new, virgin plastics. By leveraging Anellotech’s existing Bio-TCat process,…