UOP LLC, a Honeywell (Morristown, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) company, has announced that its technologies have been selected to produce key ingredients for fuels and synthetic rubber in China. China's Lijin Petrochemical Plant Co. will use Honeywell's UOP C4 Oleflex process…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has doubled capacity of its non-phthalate plasticizer Hexamoll DINCH from 100,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) to 200,000 m.t./yr at its site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. With a second Hexamoll DINCH plant, BASF will satisfy growing…
Atlas Copco’s (Stockholm, Sweden; www.atlascopco.com) U.S.-based Quincy Compressor LLC has finalized the acquisition of the compressor business of National Pump & Compressor Ltd. and McKenzie Compressed Air Inc. in the U.S. National Pump & Compressor’s business is located in Texas…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp), in cooperation with SOG - Oleo e Gas S.A., a leading engineering company in Brazil, has been awarded a contract from Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras), a Brazilian state-run oil company. The contract involves construction…
Eni S.p.A. (Rome; www.eni.it) has signed an agreement with oil-and-gas company MOL Group (Budapest, Hungary; www.mol.hu/en) for the sale of its 32.445% stake in ÄŒeská Rafinérská a.s. (CRC), a refining company in the Czech Republic. The transfer is subject to…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has recently installed an air separation unit (ASU) for AGC Glass Europe, the world’s largest producer of flat glass. The state-of-the-art cryogenic Prism ON300 plant, now successfully operating at AGC’s Teplice factory in the…
BASF SE (Ludwogshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Sinopec (Beijing, China; www.sinopec.com) will build a new world-scale production plant for Neopentylglycol (NPG) at their state- of-the-art Verbund site, BASF-YPC Co., a 50-50 joint venture in Nanjing, China. The plant, with a total…
H.B. Fuller Co. (St. Paul, Minn.; www.hbfuller.com) has announced the opening of its new $10 million manufacturing facility to support the expansion of its business in the Andean Region of South America. The plant is located in Rionegro, approximately 36…
AkzoNobel N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has inaugurated its new, highly efficient chlorine membrane electrolysis plant in the Rhein-Main area of Germany. The Frankfurt-based, state-of-the-art plant is the result of a major conversion and expansion project begun in 2011 and…
BioAmber Inc. (www.bio-amber.com; Montreal, Canada), an industrial biotechnology company producing sustainable chemicals, has announced that it has signed its first take-or-pay contract for succinic acid. Under the terms of the agreement, BioAmber will be the principal supplier of bio-succinic acid…