The hydrogen demand for a new polysilicon facility being built in Taiwan will be covered with units from Caloric Anlagenbau GmbH (Gräfelfing, Germany; www.caloric.com). With this contract Caloric establishes itself as a competent and reliable partner for this growing industry,…
The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA; Washington, D.C.; www.usda.gov) today announced five major grants that focus on developing biomass-derived fuels, in part for aviation. The research and development awards, which total $136 million over five years, are part of the…
The Dow Chemical Co. ((Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) and K2 Pure Solutions (K2 Pure; Pittsburgh, Calif.; www.k2pure.com) today celebrated the successful start-up of a new chlor-alkali plant at Dow’s Pittsburg, Calif. site. The new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility will produce bleach to…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has signed a contract with EuroChem (Moscow, Russia; www.eurochem.ru), to sell its fertilizer activities in Antwerp, Belgium. BASF also plans to sell its 50% share of the joint-venture (JV) PEC-Rhin (Ottmarsheim, France) to EuroChem. The…
In today’s economy, businesses have become more cash-conscious. The focus on expenses has become increasingly important to the bottom line. Typically, the top three business expenses are wages, raw material costs and taxes. If jobs are cut, or raw material…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Mintal Group Co., a large manufacturer of ferrochrome and stainless steel, on the design and delivery of a new ferrochrome plant to Baotou, in the Inner Mongolia, China. The contract value is…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is investing €12 million to convert 50% of its ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) synthetic-rubber production in Geleen, the Netherlands, to innovative Keltan ACE technology. During 2013, the German specialty chemicals company will implement the…
Envergent Technologies LLC (Des Plaines, Ill; www.envergenttech.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that liquid biofuel produced from biomass by Envergent’s Rapid Thermal Processing (RTP) technology has been successfully demonstrated in industrial burners by Oilon Group (Lahti, Finland; http://netfi.oilon.com), a leading European…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) announced today that Jacobs Engineering SA (JESA), the company's joint venture (JV) with OCP S.A. (OCP; www.ocpgroup.ma), has been selected to provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for two new diammonium…
Axens' (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) technologies have been selected by Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabi; www.saudiaramco.com) for its Jazan Refinery & Terminal Project. The refinery, scheduled to be commissioned in December 2016, will have a capacity of 400,000 barrels per stream…