UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, says it will invest $20 million to expand its production facility in Mobile, Ala., to produce adsorbents and catalysts. The investment will expand production of UOP’s Ionsiv Ion Exchange adsorbents, which…
A new plant for the manufacture of oxidized polyethylene (PE) waxes went into operation at the BASF SE (www.basf.com) site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The plant manufactures high quality oxidized waxes according to BASF’s own process. The new plant will improve…
IRPC Public Co., a company specialized in the production of petrochemical and petroleum-refining products in Thailand, has selected Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) to supply technologies for its new Upstream Project for Hygiene and Value Added Product (UHV project). The complex…
The technology group The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) and Sadara Chemical Co. (Sadara) recently signed a long-term contract that will see Linde supply Sadara with carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen (H2) and ammonia (NH3) at a chemical complex now being…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) and Grupo Mexico have signed a contract for the delivery of process technology to Buenavista del Cobre's new second copper concentrator in Mexico. The contract value booked in the first quarter 2012 order intake is…
Cassidy Nguer Gutjahr Doornbos Hammer Robert Gulotty becomes technical manager for Applied Catalysts (Doraville, Ga.), a developer of catalysts for chemical processing and pollution-abatement applications. Kevin Cassidy is named chemical and monitoring solutions general manager, water and process technologies,…
Capital equipment prices, as reflected in the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI), increased 0.5% from December to January. This month’s issue presents the annual 2011 CEPCI, 585.7, which is an 6.3% increase from 2010 and an 11.4% increase from 2009.…
Cassidy Nguer Gutjahr Doornbos Hammer Robert Gulotty becomes technical manager for Applied Catalysts (Doraville, Ga.), a developer of catalysts for chemical processing and pollution-abatement applications. Kevin Cassidy is named chemical and monitoring solutions general manager, water and process technologies,…
When a process plant is set up, an owner has several things in mind; the market demand for his product and hence the plant capacity, the plant cost, the space availability, space for future expansion and so on. Once a…
Plant Watch Wacker invests €40 million to expand polymer site in China March 5, 2012 — Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is expanding its polymer activities by investing around €40 million to build two new production facilities at its…