Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay) says that it will build a large-scale alkoxylation facility in Singapore which is expected to start operations by 2015 and will serve the fast-growing Asian market in home & personal care, coatings, industrial, agrochemicals and…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a frame agreement from BASF Antwerp N.V., part of BASF SE (Ludwiigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) to provide engineering services at BASF’s integrated chemicals complex in Antwerp, Belgium. Under the terms of the…
Prices for chemicals rose overall 0.5% in March, following a 0.6% gain in February and a 0.9% gain in January, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Washington, D.C.; www.bls.gov) that were discussed in the most recent…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has received an LNG heat exchanger order from Petronas for a major LNG project in Malaysia. Air Products’ SplitMR liquefaction process and technology was selected and will be supplied to the Petronas LNG Train…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by the Bahrain Petroleum Company B.S.C. – BAPCO, a lump-sum contract for the engineering, procurement, construction (EPC), pre-commissioning as well as commissioning and start-up assistance for the modification project of the #3 sulfur recovery…
As part of the Obama Administration’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, the Energy Department (Washington, D.C.; www.energy.gov) today recognized the nation’s first commercial enhanced geothermal system (EGS) project to supply electricity to the grid. Based in Churchill County, Nevada, Ormat Technologies’ Desert…
The biotech companies Kultevat (Carlsbad, Calif.; www.kultevat.com) and KeyGene (Wageningen, the Netherlands; www.keygene.com) have entered into collaboration for production of rubber based on the Russian dandelion. This plant has demonstrated potential as a domesticated crop for the U.S. and Europe;…
Veolia Environnement (www.veolia.com) and Total (both Paris, France; www.total.com) today inaugurated the Osilub plant at the Gonfreville l’Orcher site in Normandy, France. Completed after 20 months of construction work, the new plant expands engine-oil-treatment capacity in France and, more broadly,…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Bedlgium; www.solvay.com) announces today that it will build a specialty surfactant plant at an industrial park in Genthin, Germany, close to Berlin. The unit will develop and produce surfactant solutions for Solvay's home & personal care and…
Outotec Oy (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Baotou Steel International Economic & Trading Co. on the design and delivery of an indurating furnace for a new iron-ore pelletizing plant to be built in China. The contract price is not…