WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) announces the recent award of an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract by Invista for the development of a new hexamethylene diamine (HMD) plant at Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park. The plant will produce…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; Washington, D.C.; www.epa.gov) is finalizing a rule that will allow the agency to restrict imports of potentially harmful perfluorinated chemicals that could be used in carpets. The regulation will require companies to report to…
Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. (Columbus, Ohio; www.momentive.com) has announced that it has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Kanoria Chemicals & Industries Limited (Kanoria) to form a joint venture (JV) that would construct a new phenolic specialty resins…
Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.; www.bv.com) has been selected as the Engineer of Record for the Marine Works and Desalination components on the $3.43 billion Escondida Water Supply (EWS) project in Chile. Black & Veatch's role is leading the…
The partial shutdown of the federal government earlier this month didn’t take the steam out of the U.S. economy, according to the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) monthly Chemical Activity Barometer (CAB) released today. The CAB is a…
Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. (Woodridge, Ill.; www.elevance.com), a high-growth specialty chemicals company, announced that it has authorized the next significant stage of its second world-scale biorefinery in Natchez, Miss., in order to expand production of its Inherent-brand renewable building blocks…
Eastman Chemical Company (Kingsport, Tenn.; www.eastman.com), in conjunction with Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies Limited (JM Davy), has developed advanced proprietary technology for the production of ethylene glycol from synthesis gas-based feedstocks. Ethylene glycol, commonly referred to as mono ethylene glycol…
Albemarle Corporation (Baton Rouge, La.; www.albemarle.com), a developer and manufacturer of antioxidants for the polymers, fuel and lube industries, has announced that it completed installation of a granulation and blending system in Shanghai, thus adding capacity and product forms to…
Evonik Industries (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) started up a new plant for manufacturing biodiesel-production catalysts in Argentina. With a capacity of over 60,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr), the new production plant will supply ready-to-use alkoxides for use as catalysts in…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that subsidiaries of its Global Engineering and Construction Group have been awarded contracts for the front-end engineering design (FEED) for Saudi Aramco’s Khurais Arabian Light Crude Increment Program in Saudi Arabia. The Foster…