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Topsøe builds catalyst plant in China  

Haldor Topsøe A/S’ (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) board of directors today approved the capital investment needed to carry out the construction that in two primary phases will establish a new automotive catalyst plant in Tianjin Economic Technological Development Area (TEDA) located…

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Bechtel to design and build complex water system for copper mine in Chile  

Bechtel (San Francisco, Calif.; www.bechtel.com) has been selected by BHP Billiton to provide engineering, project management, and construction services for a system that will bring a sustainable water supply to the Escondida copper mine in the Atacama Desert of northern…

BASF to expand catalyst production in India

BASF Catalysts India Private Limited, a division of BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is expanding its mobile emissions catalysts production capacity in Chennai, India. Construction of a new 47,000 square meter facility will begin in December 2013, enhancing the company’s…

Novozymes and Monsanto to collaborate on sustainable operations

Novozymes (Copenhagen, Denmark; www.novozymes.com) and Monsanto Company (St. Louis, Mo.; www.monsanto.com) have announced a longterm strategic alliance for the research and commercialization of sustainable microbial products that will provide a new platform of solutions for growers around the world. The…

LIST wins ‘Prix SVC Nordschweiz 2013’  

LIST AG (Arisdorf Switzerland; www.list.ch) is the proud winner of the sixth edition of the Prix SVC (Swiss Venture Club) for northern Switzerland. LIST was cited for its continued commitment to innovative engineering that has resulted in groundbreaking technology, such…

Honeywell to expand U.S. refrigerant production

Honeywell (Morristown, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) has announced that investments of approximately $300 million will be made by the company and key suppliers to increase production capacity for HFO-1234yf, a new refrigerant for automobiles with a global-warming potential (GWP) of less than…

Bio-based butadiene joint development agreement between Braskem and Genomatica

Braskem America (Philadelphia, Pa.; www.braskem.com) and Genomatica (San Diego, Calif.; www.genomatica.com) announced an agreement for the joint development of a commercial process technology to make bio-based butadiene from renewable feedstocks. Braskem is the world’s leading producer of biopolymers and the…

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Uhde Inventa-Fischer completes PET MTR plant for Octal Petrochemicals in Oman  

The plant engineering and construction company Uhde Inventa-Fischer (Domat/Ems, Switzerland; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) and Octal Petrochemicals, the largest PET resin manufacturer in the Middle East and the largest integrated PET sheet manufacturer in the world, successfully commissioned a polycondensation plant for the…

CB&I awarded hydrocracker contract by Gazprom

CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract by JSC Gazprom Neft for front-end engineering and design (FEED) services for a new oil-refining complex at Gazprom Neft's refinery in Omsk, Western Siberia, Russia. The existing refinery is currently…

Renmatix and Virent to collaborate on bio-based products

Renmatix, Inc. (King of Prussia, Pa.; www.renmatix.com) and Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wis.; www.virent.com) have announced a strategic collaboration to convert affordable cellulosic sugars to renewable chemicals and bio-based packaging materials. Under the terms of the multi-phase development project, Renmatix’s Plantrose…