S & B Engineers and Constructors, Ltd. (Houston; www.sbec.com) announced it has been awarded a lump sum engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by an affiliate of Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (Enterprise) for Enterprise’s second propane dehydrogenation plant (PDH 2)…
Veolia Water Technologies (www.veoliawatertech.com) will provide a processing plant integrating HPD crystallization systems designed to produce phosphorus fertilizer. To produce pure crystalline fertilizers, the ALKIMIA Group, a Tunisian chemical holding company specialized in the production of phosphate salts for industrial applications,…
Velocys Inc. (Plain City, Ohio; www.velocys.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Velocys plc (Velocys), has signed an agreement with Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, LLC (OLCV), to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from Velocys’ planned Bayou Fuels biomass-to-fuels project in Natchez, Mississippi,…
Air Liquide (Paris; www.airliquide.com) has announced a new longterm agreement with Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries (KPI) under which Air Liquide Munay Tech Gases, a joint venture between Air Liquide and national oil company KazMunayGas (KMG), will build, own and operate a…
Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) and Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland; www.neste.com) are entering into strategic cooperation for the production of renewable polypropylene (PP). The co-operation will enable Borealis to start using Neste’s 100% renewable propane produced with Neste’s proprietary NEXBTL…
GEA Group AG (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.gea.com) is exploring a possible sale of GEA Bock as part of the Group’s continued focus on its strategic core markets – the food, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. As announced at the Capital Markets Day…
Driven by continued strong growth in the lithium-ion battery market for electric vehicles, Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) will increase the capacity of its high-performance polymer PVDF (polyvinylidene difluoride) dedicated to this market at its Changshu, China plant by approximately 50%.…
LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) is building a new small-scale pilot facility at its Ferrara, Italy site moving another step closer to converting post-consumer plastic waste into new plastics on a commercial scale. The company selected its Ferrara…
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (Houston; www.enterpriseproducts.com) announced it will proceed with an expansion of its Appalachia-to-Texas (ATEX) ethane pipeline, based on customer commitments received during a recent 30-day binding open season. The 1,200-mile ATEX pipeline transports ethane from the Marcellus/Utica…
Braskem (São Paulo, Brazil; www.braskem.com.br) reported continued momentum in the construction of the Company's new Delta polypropylene (PP) production line located in LaPorte, Texas. With $525 million invested to date and mechanical construction now 75% complete Braskem's Delta remains on…