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…
Toyo Engineering & Construction Sdn. Bhd. (Toyo-Malaysia), a Malaysian subsidiary of Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been awarded a contract to build a bioethanol production facility with a capability of 10,000 ton/yr by a joint -venture company…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by Petron Corp. for the Petron Refinery Master Plan-2 Project in Bataan, Philippines. Foster Wheeler will execute…
Bayer MaterialScience AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.materialscience.bayer.com) has commissioned a new technical center for the development of isocyanate production processes at Chempark Dormagen. The research center was erected in just under a year with an investment of EUR 5 million. “All…
Solvay SA (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) and Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) have entered into an agreement to form a worldwide fluorine gas business joint venture (JV). It will build, own and operate modular onsite fluorine cleaning gas units for the…
BASF Corp. (Iselin, N.J.; www.basf.com) has invested $50 million to acquire an equity ownership position in privately held Sion Power (Tucson, Ariz.; www.sionpower.com), the global leader in the development of lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries. This equity partnership expands upon an existing…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Sonopec Corp. (Beijing, China; www.sinopec.com.cn) today inaugurated the $1.4-billion second phase of their integrated petrochemical site in Nanjing, bringing crucial chemicals to the China market that will support the development of more sustainable local…