Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) and Wood (www.woodplc.com) will work together through the Honeywell Connected Plant platform to commercialize digital services that help refiners and petrochemical manufacturers make their operations safer, more efficient and more reliable. Honeywell UOP has partnered with…
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, Mass.; www.thermofisher.com) announced that it is investing $150 million in its Pharma Services business to provide additional capacity for sterile liquid and lyophilized product development and commercial manufacturing. Included in the site expansion projects are…
The Lubrizol Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio; www.lubrizol.com) announced the acquisition of Laboratoire Phenobio, an innovative supplier of naturally-derived extracts and botanical active ingredients. Recognized across the world as a pioneer in botanical extracts and natural performance ingredients, this addition expands Lubrizol's…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has invested in Noble.AI, a leading developer of software that helps R&D organizations speed up their innovation efforts. Noble’s software, which incorporates physics-based principles into an artificial intelligence engine, will enable Solvay to accelerate its…
Nokia (Espoo, Finland; www.nokia.com) announced that it will partner with Pöyry PLC (Helsinki, Finland; www.poyry.com), an international consulting and engineering company, and Infosys (Bengaluru, India; www.infosys.com), a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, to further enhance and accelerate…
McDermott International, Inc. (Houston; www.mcdermott.com) announced the successful commercialization and startup of its single largest CDAlky reactor to date at PetroChina's refinery in Jilin, China. The 350,000-metric-tons-per-year (m.t./yr; 9,000 barrels per day) plant is one of four CDAlky projects awarded…
WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) and WatershipBlue (Pawleys Island, South Carolina; www.watershipblue.com) have entered into a Master Services Agreement (MSA) supporting the advisory, consulting, design, construction and operation of waterships worldwide. Waterships are large-scale, floating seawater desalination plants based…
Honeywell (Charlotte, N.C.; www.honeywell.com) announced that Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemical Co., Ltd. will use Honeywell UOP’s C3 Oleflex technology to produce 700,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of polymer-grade propylene at its facility in Lianyungang City in China’s Jiangsu Province. Jiangsu…
Sibur (Moscow; www.sibur.com) announced that the polypropylene unit at ZapSibNeftekhim, a deep hydrocarbon conversion plant under construction, is 99.8% complete. Construction and installation work on the process unit are over, and commissioning is underway. In particular, systems are undergoing functional testing…
Royal Dutch Shell plc (The Hague, the Netherlands; www.shell.com) officially opened its solar park at the Shell Moerdijk Chemical Plant. With 76,000 panels, the solar park has a peak capacity of 27 megawatts, equivalent to the energy consumption of 9,000…