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Mitsubishi Chemical and Linde Engineering enter technology transfer for hydrodealklyation

The Engineering Division of The Linde Group (www.linde-engineering.com) and Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo; www.m-chemical.co.jp) have concluded a definite agreement for transfer of MCC’s Hydrodealkylation (HDA) technology to Linde. For more than 45 years, MCC’s HDA process has been deployed…

KBR to provide proprietary ammonia technology to PAU in Indonesia

KBR, Inc. (Houston, www.kbr.com) announced that it has entered into an agreement to provide its proprietary Ammonia InSite Technology to PT Panca Amara Utama (PAU) for the Sulawesi, Indonesia ammonia plant complex. Ammonia InSite Technology is a KBR integrated solution…

Valero to use CB&I’s CDAlky technology for St. Charles refinery project

CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced that its CDAlky  technology has been selected by Valero Refining – New Orleans LLC for its St. Charles Alkylation Project located in Norco, Louisiana. CB&I's overall scope of supply on the project includes CDAlky…

Trinseo opens pilot plant and expanded S-SBR facility in Germany

Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.; www.trinseo.com) marked the opening of its new pilot plant and Solution-Styrene Butadiene Rubber (S-SBR) capacity expansion at Schkopau, Germany. Business leaders and dignitaries, among them Dr. Reiner Haseloff, Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt, celebrated the opening, marking an important…

BP licenses PTA process technology to SOCAR Turkey

BP plc (London; www.bp.com) and SOCAR Turkey Enerji A.Ş have entered into a licensing agreement for BP’s latest generation purified terephthalic acid (PTA) technology. SOCAR Turkey intends to deploy the technology in its new unit, which will have capacity to…

Clean Harbors buys Veolia Environmental Services North America

Veolia North America, Inc.’s (Boston, Mass.; www.veolianorthamerica.com) subsidiary Veolia Environmental Services North America, LLC was sold to Clean Harbors, Inc. (Norwell, Mass.; www.cleanharbors.com). Brown Gibbons Lang & Co.’s (BGL) Environmental & Industrial Services team served as the exclusive financial advisor…

Honeywell and Equate to collaborate in support of new petrochemical technologies

Honeywell (Morris Plains, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) and EQUATE Petrochemical Co. K.S.C.C. (Ahmadi, Kuwait; www.equate.com) announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to further the development of innovative technologies to support operations at EQUATE's industrial complexes.  EQUATE is currently the…

DowDuPont details plans to separate its three corporate divisions

DowDuPont (www.dow-dupont.com) announced the corporate brand names that each of its divisions plans to assume once they are separated as independent companies as intended. While certain product names will change at separation, many products within each intended company will continue…

Norsk Hydro acquires aluminum assets in Iceland, Sweden and the Netherlands

Norsk Hydro ASA (Oslo, Norway; www.hydro.com) has made a binding offer to acquire Rio Tinto’s 100% share in Icelandic aluminum plant ISAL. The offer also includes the Dutch anode facility Aluchemie and Swedish aluminum fluoride plant Alufluor. The transaction includes…

Dongming Hengchang Petrochemical to license LyondellBasell polypropylene technology

LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that Dongming Hengchang Petrochemical Co. has selected LyondellBasell Spheripol polypropylene technology for a plant in Heze City, Shandong Province, China with a capacity of 200,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr). Polypropylene grades produced with the Spheripol process are…