BASF India Ltd. (Mumbai; www.basf.com) will invest €150 million to set up a new chemical production site at the Dahej Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemicals Investment Region (PCPIR), located on the west coast of India in Gujarat. The new site will…
On 31 March 2012, the Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj visited North Rhine-Westphalia accompanied by a major business delegation during a five-day state visit to Germany. On this occasion ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH (Uhde; Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) and the representatives of the…
KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) says it will design and construct an ethylene furnace for Ineos Olefins & Polymers USA (Ineos) that upon commissioning will provide the highest achievable ethylene yields in the industry. The executed agreements with Ineos include provision of…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract valued at about $300 million, by Williams Olefins, LLC for a petrochemicals expansion project in Geismar, Louisiana. The scope of the award includes the license and basic engineering for the…
The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) says that its subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG) has been awarded a contract valued at more than $30 million to design and supply a selective catalytic…
Ube Industries, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.ube-ind.co.jp) says it is adding a production facility for battery separators to the Sakai Factory located in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture. The move comes in response to growing demand for separators in lithium-ion batteries used…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS; Washington, D.C.; www.dhs.gov) announced a new series of Safety Act (Support-Anti-terrorism by Fostering Effective Technology) marks that may be placed on marketing materials by authorized companies to identify qualified anti-terrorism technologies. The new…
On March 27, 2012, EPA proposed a Carbon Pollution Standard for new power plants. This step, under the Clean Air Act, would set national limits on the amount of carbon pollution power plants built in the future can emit. The…
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA; Washington, D.C.; www.osha.gov) revised its Hazard Communication Standard (HCS), aligning it with the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals. The revised HCS will be fully implemented…
The purchasing managers index (PMI) increased by 1.0 point to 53.4 in March, but the chemicals industry was one of two industrial segments reporting contraction, according to data from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) that was discussed in the…