BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is planning to expand the manufacturing plant for vinylformamide (VFA) in Ludwigshafen. In addition, BASF intends to increase the polymerization capacity in Ludwigshafen and build a new polymerization line for VFA in China for further…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) plans to build a butadiene extraction plant at its Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium. The plant will have an annual production capacity of 155,000 metric tons (m.t.) and is scheduled to start up during 2014.…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) a license, supply of basic engineering package and an engineering and procurement services contract for the Refinery Off-Gas Cracker (ROGC) plant. This contract is part of the expansion project…
Linde Engineering, a division of the Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com), is set to build a new Alpha-SABLIN plant for the production of linear alpha olefins (LAO) in Nizhnekamsk, Russian Federation, which upon completion will be operated by Nizhnekamskneftekhim (NKNH),…
Microchannel Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology developed by the Oxford Catalysts Group (Abingdon, U.K.; www.oxfordcatalysts.com) has been selected for use in a biomass-to-liquids (BTL) project under development in the U.K. by the U.S.-based company, Solena Fuels Corp. (Washington, D.C.; www.solenafuels.com). Solena was…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract by Reliance Industries Ltd. for providing technology for the world’s largest aromatics complex to be built at Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. "Our role as the exclusive licensor for BP's paraxylene technology…
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.co.jp) has been awarded from Statoil (Trondheim, Norway; www.statoil.com) to undertake verification testing for a technology qualification program (TQP) for one of the world's largest carbon-dioxide-capture facilities. The approximately 3,400-ton/d CO2 recovery system…
Dyadic International, Inc. (Jupiter, Fla.; www.dyadic.com), a global biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development, manufacture and sale of enzymes and other proteins for the industrial enzyme, bioenergy, and biopharmaceutical industries, has announced that its research and development center in…
Plant Watch Solvay to build bio-based epichlorohydrin plant in China June 11, 2012 — Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) says its Thai affiliate Vinythai will build an epichlorohydrin plant in Taixing, China. The plant, with an initial capacity of 100,000…
Lachowska-Keane Hahn Banerjee Morse Walker Albemarle (Baton Rouge, La.) names John Steitz president and COO. Joanna Lachowska-Keane becomes the manager of the engineering- and-construction company Sener Poland (Warsaw). Lonza (Basel, Switzerland), a producer of biopharmaceuticals, names Richard Ridinger…