The monthly Chemical Activity Barometer (CAB), from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), rose in January by 0.8 percentage points, the sixth consecutive month that the leading macroeconomic indicator has increased. The CAB for December 2012 was revised…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has increased its dichlorobenzene capacity by more than 15%. It has done so by installing an additional crystallizer at the Leverkusen site, thereby enabling it to produce more high-purity p-dichlorobenzene for the global market. Some…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by JBF Petrochemicals, a wholly–owned subsidiary of JBF Industries Ltd, a for a 1.25-million ton/yr, latest-generation purified terephthalic acid (PTA) unit, to be located in the Special Economic Zone in Mangalore, India. PTA is…
Linde Engineering Dresden GmbH, a subsidiary of The Linde Group (Munich, Germamy; www.linde.com) has signed an agreement with the Finnish Forest BtL Oy for the licensing of the biomass gasification technology Carbo-V, which will be implemented in a new Biomass–to-Liquid…
Petronas (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; www.petronas.com.my) and Evonik Industries AG Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) to jointly embark on the development of production facilities of specialty chemicals within Petronas’ Refinery & Petrochemical Integrated Development (Rapid) project in…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec; Beijing) have completed a joint feasibility study and taken the next steps in the establishment of a world-scale isononanol (INA) plant in Maoming, Guangdong, China. Under the terms…
Praxair India Pvt- Ltd. (Bangalore), a subsidiary of Praxair, Inc., (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com), has signed a long-term contract with its existing customer, JSW Steel Ltd. (www.jsw.in), part of the O.P. Jindal Group. Praxair will expand the supply of gaseous oxygen,…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik) and the government of the Russian Rostov Region used the opportunity of a reception at the Russian embassy in Berlin and the annual International Green Week to reaffirm their cooperation. A corresponding memorandum of…
Engineering and services group Bilfinger SE (Mannheim, Germany; www.bilfinger.com) has signed an agreement to acquire filtration specialists Johnson Screens (www.johnsonscreens.com). Combining these activities with activities that already exist in the group leads to the creation of a leading global supplier…
Data for the composite leading indicator (CLI) from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Paris, France; www.oecd.org) show “signs of stabilizing outlooks in most major economies,” according to analysis contained within the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report…