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Black & Veatch and BHP complete major desalination project in Chile

BHP (Melbourne, Australia; www.bhp.com), the world’s largest mining company, recently marked the completion of the Escondida Water Supply Expansion (EWSE) project at its Minera Escondida mine in Chile. The expansion increases the mine's desalination capacity to the point where 100%…

Maire Tecnimont wins EPCC contract for hydrotreater unit at Total’s Donges refinery

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.com) announced that its subsidiary, KT – Kinetics Technology S.p.A., has been awarded the ISBL Package, in the framework of the Horizon Project, by Total Raffinage France, part of Total S.A. The project mainly consists…

Ingenia Polymers acquires LyondellBasell’s LaPorte manufacturing site

Thermoplastics manufacturer Ingenia Polymers Corp. (www.ingeniapolymers.com) has acquired the La Porte, Tex. operations of LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com), commonly known as Bayshore Industrial. The LaPorte assets represent Ingenia’s first acquisition since its founding 34 years ago.

Gevo installs wind turbines to power Minnesota production plant

Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.; www.gevo.com) and partners Juhl Energy (Juhl) and Harrison Street Investors held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the completed construction of two wind turbines that will supply up to 5.0 MW of fully renewable electricity to Gevo…

Neste strengthens renewable-material sourcing with U.S. acquisition

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland; www.neste.com) has agreed to acquire 100% of Mahoney Environmental (Mahoney), a collector and recycler of used cooking oil in the United States, and its affiliated entities. The transaction is subject to the fulfillment of customary closing…

UOP to supply four pressure-swing adsorption units to Zhejiang Petrochemical Co.

Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) announced that Zhejiang Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (ZPC) will use four Honeywell UOP Polybed pressure-swing adsorption (PSA) units to supply high-purity hydrogen for the second phase of an integrated refining and petrochemical complex in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province. The…

DSM, Sabic and UPM Biofuels collaborate to create bio-based high-performance fibers

Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com), SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) and UPM Biofuels (Helsinki, Finland; www.upmbiofuels.com) announced a partnership that will help to reduce the environmental footprint of Dyneema, the world’s strongest fiber. The collaboration will see Dyneema…

Veolia to expand crystallization capacity for potash fertilizer plant in Jordan

Veolia Water Technologies (www.veoliawatertech.com) will provide a processing plant integrating HPD crystallization systems designed to extract high-quality potash fertilizer from the brines of the Dead Sea. Population growth, rising incomes and the need for increased fresh food production are expanding…

Osaki CoolGen implements Honeywell technology to remove CO2 in coal-gasification process

Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) announced that OSAKI CoolGen Corporation has implemented UOP SeparAL technology to remove carbon dioxide during coal-gasification processing at its facility in Hiroshima, Japan. The technology significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power generation, enabling OSAKI CoolGen…

SaltX makes progress on energy-storage pilot plant in China

SaltX Technology AB (Hägersten, Sweden; www.saltxtechnology.com) announced that its partner in China, Shuangliang Boiler Co. LTD (Shuangliang), has moved into the next phase of its pilot plant project. As part of the development work, design parameters have been set and a…