Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been awarded a contract for a caprolactam plant for DSM Nanjing Chemical Co., which is a joint venture company between Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, the Netherlands) and Sinopec Group. The project aims…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf) has signed a contract to sell its 50%-share in PEC-Rhin (Ottmarsheim, France), to its joint venture (JV) partner GPN, a member of the French Total Group. PEC-Rhin produces CAN/AN (calcium ammonium nitrate/ammonium nitrate) fertilizers and…
Chemical prices, excluding pharmaceuticals, fell 0.9% in December, while industrial production rose 0.4%, according to data compiled from various sources and discussed in the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). …
Torresol Energy S.A. (Madrid, Spain; www.torresolenergy.com), a joint venture (JV) between Sener IngenierˇËa y Sistemas (Sener; Madrid, Spain; www.sener.es) and Masdar (Abu Dhabi; www.masdaruae.com) says that the Valle 1 and Valle 2 plants — two identical 50-MW parabolic trough plants,…
The first polylactic acid (PLA) plant running with innovative Sulzer technology was successfully put into service by Synbra Technology in Etten Leur, the Netherlands (photo, below). The plant was built by Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzerchemtech.com) and is based…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract, valued in excess of $750 million, by Imperial Oil Resources Ventures Ltd. for work on the Kearl Expansion Project in Alberta, Canada. CB&I’s work scope on the expansion project includes…
Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB; Göttingen, Germany; www.sartorius-stedim.com) and G-Con Manufacturing, LLC (G-Con; College Station, Tex.; www.gconbio.com) have agreed to a global collaboration to offer highly advanced and flexible production platforms for the biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry. The new product line will…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, has been selected by Samsung Total Petrochemicals Co. to provide technologies for the production of key petrochemicals and high-quality diesel and jet fuel at its complex in Daesan, South Korea. The…
The environmentally compatible cement Celitement developed by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; Karlsruhe, Germany; www.kit.edu) has been granted the 2011 German Innovation Award for Climate and the Environment (IKU). Celitement GmbH (Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany; www.celitement.de) founded by KIT, the four…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) says it will build a single-train 300,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) production plant for toluene diisocyanate (TDI) and expand additional plants for its precursors at its site in Ludwigshafen. These include the construction of…