NexLube Tampa LLC plans to begin construction of a used oil re-refinery and blending plant in Tampa, Florida using Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) and Viscolube S.p.A.’s (Pieve Fissiraga, Italy;www.viscolube.it) Revivoil technology. The facility is expected to process 24 million gallons…
Praxair, Inc. (Danburz, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has signed a multi-year contract with Hemlock Semiconductor, L.L.C. to supply high-purity hydrogen to Hemlock Semiconductor, L.L.C.’s new $1.2-billion polysilicon manufacturing facility under construction in Clarksville, Tenn. Praxair will build and operate an on-site hydrogen…
A subsidiary of Foster Wheeler AG’s (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by YPF S.A. for the delayed coker heater for the new delayed coking unit at YPF's Complejo Industrial La Plata in…
The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) and Ube Industries, Ltd. (Ube; Tokyo, Japan; www.ube-ind.co.jp) have agreed to form a joint venture (JV) to manufacture and market formulated electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in energy storage applications. The 50-50 JV,…
Shell Global Solutions (Amsterdam; www.shell.com/globalsolutions) and Paques Holding B.V. (Balk, both the Netherlands; www.paques.nl) have agreed upon the formation of a 50-50 joint venture, Paqell B.V. (www.paqell.com), to focus their efforts on the marketing of biological desulphurization in the oil…
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) and General Technology & Systems Company Ltd. (Gentas) of the Shoaibi Group (www.shoaibigroup.com), announced today they have signed a Letter of Intent to build a world-scale hydroprocessing catalyst production plant in Saudi Arabia. The plant will…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that China’s Wison (Nanjing) Clean Energy Company Ltd. has selected UOP technology to convert methanol into building blocks for chemical products at an existing coal chemical complex in China.…
Ube Industries, Ltd. (Ube; Tokyo, Japan; www.ube-ind.co.jp) has reached agreement with Amperex Technology Ltd. (ATL; Hong Kong; www.atlbattery.com) to license several Ube-owned patents on lithium-ion rechargeable batteries and electrolytes to ATL. The agreement will serve to strengthen the business relationship between…
Derbyshire Thibodeaux Wakeham Bucklew Bloemhard John Derbyshire becomes president of KBR Technology (Houston). Doug Keith is promoted to president of the drive technologies division of Siemens Industry (Atlanta, Ga.). Travis Thibodeaux becomes director of operations support for Multi-Chem (Houston), a…
Put content here. Plant Watch BASF to build world’s largest single-train TDI plant in Europe May 26, 2011 — BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will build the world’s largest single-train toluene diisocyanate (TDI) plant in Europe. The plant will…