Linde (Guildford, U.K.; www.linde.com) announced that it has started up a new gas production facility supplying methane, hydrogen and carbon dioxide to Evonik Industries' second world-scale methionine complex on Jurong Island in Singapore. The new plant complements an existing facility…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded the front-end engineering and design (FEED) for INEOS’ new processing plant at the Saltend Chemicals Park in Hull, UK. The plant will produce vinyl acetate monomer, (VAM) a key component for laminated wind…
Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com) opened its newest cybersecurity lab to help manufacturers confidently adopt digital transformation strategies, while protecting the integrity of their plant operations, networks, systems and data. The facility, part of Emerson’s larger global cybersecurity network, reinforces…
Royal Vopak (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.vopak.com), Mitsubishi Corp., Covestro AG and AP Ventures have invested Euro 17 million into Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies GmbH and its Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier (LOHC) technology for hydrogen logistics. Storing hydrogen, using dibenzyltoluene as the Liquid Organic…
Linde (www.linde.com) announced that it has started up its new air separation plants to supply a combined 720 tons per day of high-purity nitrogen to Shanghai EverDisplay Optronics Co., Ltd. (EDO) supporting its sixth-generation AMOLED project. Under the terms of…
SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded a major commissioning services contract with ExxonMobil/SABIC for their Gulf Coast Growth Ventures (GCGV) petrochemical facility in San Patricio County, Texas, United States. The chemical facility consists of a 1.8 million metric ton…
Recyclable packaging is a prerequisite for a functioning circular economy. In order to quickly and reliably determine the recyclability of new packaging, Henkel uses its specially developed software tool EasyD4R. Henkel (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.henkel.com) has now made this assessment tool…
ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) has won a multi-million-dollar order to modernize a major oil refinery in Kazakhstan, as the Republic’s ‘Digital Kazakhstan’ program seeks to elevate economic sectors including the oil, gas and chemicals industry and accelerate growth nationally with…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) has announced a project to acquire Lambson, a company specializing in photoinitiators for curing, a technology meeting the demands of cutting-edge markets such as electronics, 3D printing, digital ink, composites and high-performance coatings. These solutions will…
Indorama Ventures Public Co. Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indoramaventures.com) announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Italy-based Sinterama S.p.A, a leading Global polyester automotive interiors and high performance colored yarns manufacturer. The acquisition comprises five production sites…