KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) was awarded a contract by Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) to provide licensing and engineering services for PT Pupuk Kalimantan Timur (Pupuk Kaltim) — the largest urea and ammonia manufacturing company in Indonesia. The project…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has provided EUR 10 million ($15 million) in a financing round to Plextronics, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.plextronics.com), a printed electronics company. This financing will support the acceleration of Plextronics’ technology development and delivery of its…
Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany; www.merck.de) has signed a collaboration agreement with Nano-C, Inc. (Westwood, Mass.; www.nano-c.com), a developer of nanostructured carbon for use in energy and electronics applications. Both companies aim to jointly develop and commercialize advanced semiconducting materials and…
The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) and the Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.saudiaramco.com) announced that the boards of directors of both companies have approved the formation of a joint venture (JV) to build and operate a…
KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by a wholly owned subsidiary of Molycorp, Inc. (Greenwood Village, Colo.; www.molycorp.com ) to build a new chlor-alkali plant as part of Molycorp’s Project Phoenix. The chlor-alkali…
Solutia, Inc. (St. Louis, Mo.; www.solutia.com) has been awarded contracts to supply its Therminol VP-1 synthetic heat-transfer fluid for two new solar power plants in Spain. The projects are each 50-MW solar power plants with thermal storage located in Extremadura,…
The Global Chemical Production Regional Index (global CPRI) rose 0.2% in June, the result of the global softâ€path in manufacturing, according to the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C., www.americanchemistry.com). In the organization’s most recent Weekly Chemical and Economic Trends…
Praxair, Inc.’s (Danbury, Conn. www.praxair.com) German subsidiary has started up a new air separation unit at its complex in Hurth, Germany. With a capacity of 1,800 tons per day, the new facility more than doubles Praxair Deutschland’s total capacity at…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has commenced work on expanding its menthol facility. The capacity of the plant at the Krefeld-Uerdingen, Germany site is to be doubled to meet the increasing demand on the world markets. Completion of the project…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will significantly expand its presence in the Middle East region by building a state-of-the-art plant for customer specific antioxidant blends (CSB) in Bahrain. CSBs are key additives for the production of polymers for the plastics…