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Jacobs awarded contract for chlorine dioxide plant in Indonesia

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has announced that it was awarded a contract by P.T. OKI Pulp and Paper Mills (Jakarta, Indonesia) for the design and supply of an integrated chlorine dioxide plant for its pulp mill project…

Celanese to build emulsions plant in southeast Asia

Celanese Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.celanese.com) has announced its intent to construct a vinyl acetate ethylene (VAE) emulsions production unit in Southeast Asia. The unit is expected to begin production by mid-2016.   "This proposed expansion will support our global and…

Ineos and Doeflex plan merger for S-PVC businesses

The Compounding division of Ineos Technologies (Rolle, Switzerland; www.ineos.com)  and Doeflex Compounding (Wiltshite, U.K.; www.doeflex.co.uk) have announced the intention to combine their S-PVC (suspension polyvinyl chloride) compounding businesses.  The combined business would be run by an integrated management team from…

PAS and Tripwire form partnership for automation technology security

PAS, Inc. (Houston; www.pas.com), a provider of software for process safety, cybersecurity and asset reliability for the energy, power and process industries worldwide, and Tripwire, Inc. (Portand, Oreg.; www.tripwire.com), a global provider of risk-based security and compliance management solutions, have…

Sibur, Gazprom and Titan form polypropylene JV

Gazprom Neft (Moscow; www.gazprom.com), SIBUR (Moscow; www.sibur.com) and Titan Group signed an agreement to establish a joint venture (JV) based on Omsk Polypropylene Plant (Poliom). As part of the deal, Sibgazpolimer, a joint venture of SIBUR and Gazprom Neft (each…

Global and U.S. CPRIs rose in April, ACC says

Both the Global and the U.S. Chemical Production Index (CPRI) rose during April, according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; ).  Both the Global and the U.S. Chemical Production Index…

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UOP Oleflex technology selected for another propylene project in China  

UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) , a Honeywell company, announced that Guangdong Peng Zun Energy Development Co., a Chinese petrochemical producer, has selected Honeywell’s UOP C3 Oleflex process technology to convert propane to propylene, a valuable petrochemical used in…

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BASF to produce LFP cathode materials in Germany  

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) today announces the launch of commercial production of LFP (lithium iron phosphate) cathode materials in Weimar, Germany. BASF is operating a 3,000 metric ton (m.t.) per year plant in Weimar, leveraging LFP precursors produced at…

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UOP Russell modular equipment to process natural gas in Louisiana  

UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that PennTex Midstream Partners LLC (Houston) has selected UOP Russell to supply a gas processing plant to recover valuable natural gas liquids (NGLs) in northern Louisiana. The plant, which…

Industrial onsite electricity generation concentrated in chemicals, paper and petroleum, EIA says

Onsite industrial generation represents approximately 3% of current U.S. generating capacity and approximately 4% of total megawatthours (MWh) of electricity generated in 2012, the latest year for which final data are available, according to a release today from the U.S.…