Business & Economics
UOP technology selected by Kumho P&B Chemicals
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, has been selected by Kumho P&B Chemicals, Inc. (Yeosu, South Korea) to provide technology to produce key petrochemicals for the manufacture of plastics. UOP’s Q-Max and Phenol process technologies will be…
Foster Wheeler completes purchase of scrubber company
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has completed the purchase of Graf-Wulff GmbH, a German company that designs, manufactures and installs circulating dry ash fluegas-scrubbing technology for all types of boilers…
UOP’s Oleflex technology selected by Dow Chemical
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell (NYSE: HON) company, says that it has been selected by The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) to provide technology to produce propylene at a Dow production site in Texas. Dow Texas…
Global manufacturing edges back to expansion in December, ACC report says
Global manufacturing conditions edged back into expansion in December, following four straight months of contraction, according to the latest American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) Weekly Chemistry and Economic report. Citing data from the JPMorgan global manufacturing PMI…
ZeaChem completes construction on biorefinery core facility
ZeaChem Inc. (Lakewood, Colo.; www.zeachem.com), today announced it has completed construction of the core facility for its new integrated demonstration biorefinery in Boardman, Oregon. The company has developed a cellulose-based biorefinery platform capable of producing advanced fuels and intermediate chemicals.…
New customer website for Oseco
Oseco (Broken Arrow, Okla.; www.oseco.com) has announced its newly redesigned website, which is intended to help both new and experienced users of rupture discs and explosion vents select the right products for their needs. The new website (www.oseco.com) is the…
Jacobs secures contract with ISACC in Saudi Arabia
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has been awarded a contract by IDEA Soda Ash and Calcium Chloride Company (ISACC) to provide engineering and project management services for the construction of a $300-million soda ash and calcium chloride production…
Topsøe awarded the third coke-oven gas-to-SNG plant in China
CNOOC (China National Oil and Off-shore Corp.) has awarded Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) a contract for converting coke oven gas with extra CO2 into substitute natural gas (SNG) and Liquifed natural gas (LNG). At the end of 2011…
UOP creates dedicated natural gas and hydrogen business unit
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, has established a new business unit dedicated to natural gas processing solutions and hydrogen. The new Natural Gas and Hydrogen business unit will increase Honeywell UOP’s focus on developing technology, equipment and…
DuPont and NexSteppe to collaborate on new feedstocks
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) and NexSteppe (Malibu, Calif.; www.nexsteppe.com) have entered into a collaboration to develop advanced feedstocks for biofuels, biopower and biobased products. The collaboration will focus on the development of new sweet sorghum and high biomass sorghum hybrids,…