BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has inaugurated its new production plant for concrete admixtures in Nairobi, Kenya. The production site will allow BASF to better meet the increasing demand for construction chemicals of customers in Eastern Africa. There, BASF produces…
Producers of the 2015 Chem Show, which will be held in New York City, November 17-19, 2015, have announced that Chemical Engineering magazine (New York, N.Y.; www.chemengonline.com), published by Access Intelligence (Rockville, Md.; www.accessintel.com), has become a Media Partner and…
Novo Nordisk A/S (Bagsværd, Denmark; www.novonordisk.com) has announced the acquisition of a U.S. manufacturing facility in West Lebanon, N.H., from Olympus Biotech. The facility was established in 1989, expanded in 2003-2006 and acquired by Olympus Biotech in 2011. It has…
MOL plc (Budapest, Hungary; www.mol.hu/en) has selected Axens Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) to perform the revamping of its DMHCK unit (FCC feed hydrotreater and mild hydrocracking) at the Danube Refinery in Százhalombatta, Hungary. This revamping project consists in increasing vacuum…
The Chemical Activity Barometer (CAB), a leading economic indicator created by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), continued to see moderated upward growth in August, with a 0.2% gain over July, as measured on a three-month moving average…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) , a Honeywell company, has announced its commercial launch of an integrated bioreactor system to remove organic and inorganic contaminants from a wide range of industrial wastewater streams. Honeywell’s UOP XCeed bioreactor system,…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has announced that it has been awarded a contract by Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group Co. for the license and engineering design of a grassroots petrochemicals complex to be built in Lingwu, Yinchuan City, Ningxia,…
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki; www.kemira.com) has awarded Pöyry Oyj (Vantaa, both Finland; www.poyry.fi) with assignments for EPCM (engineering, procurement and construction management) services for a sodium chlorate plant in Brazil. The EPCM assignments relate to the new sodium-chlorate plant that Kemira…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, The Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) has announced plans to build a world-scale plant on the U.S. Gulf Coast with a capacity of 900 million pounds per yr (~400,000 metric ton (m.t.)/yr) of propylene oxide (PO) and around 2 billion pounds…
Umicore N.V. (Brussels, Belgium; www.umicore.com) has announced the acquisition of the business and assets of CP Chemicals Group, LP (Wickliffe, Ohio; www.cpchemicalsgroup.com). CP Chemicals is a refiner and recycler of cobalt- and nickel-containing secondary materials, such as superalloy scrap, and…