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…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Samarco Mineração S.A. on a turnkey delivery of the world's largest iron-ore pelletizing plant in Brazil. The contract value is approximately €200 million, which will be booked in Outotec's second quarter order…
Procesadora Industrial Río Seco S.A., Cia. De Minas Buenaventura, wholly owned chemical subsidiary, and Haldor Topsøe (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) have signed a contract for supply of a Wet gas Sulphuric Acid (WSA) plant for production of sulphuric acid at a…
Thomas Wessel has been appointed to the executive board of Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) as chief human resources officer effective September 1, 2011. Wessel is currently a member of the board of management and chief human resources officer…
Samsung Engineering (Seoul, Korea; www.samsungengineering.co.kr) has signed a high-density polyethylene plant (HDPE) order contract for $229 million from OPaL (ONGC Petro Additions Ltd. ), a subsidiary of India s national oil company ONGC (Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd.). The…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has concluded a contract covering licensing and development of basic design for a urea production plant in the fertilizer complex to be constructed at Kanpur in the State of Uttar Pradesh by Jaiprakash…
Ube Industries, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.ube-ind.co.jp says it will launch commercial production of proprietary Artificial Micro Carbon (AMC; multi-walled carbon nanotubes-MWCNT). The company is currently proceeding with the construction of production line for AMC within the Ube Chemical Factory located…
AMEC Plc. (London, U.K.; www.amec.com) has been appointed by BASF Polyurethane (Chongqing) Co. and Chongqing Chemical and Pharmaceutical (Group) Holding Co. (CCPHC) as the project management contractor for the development of a new 400,000-metric-ton-per-year MDI (diphenylmethane diisocyanate) facility at Changshou,…
Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum (Group) Co. (Yanchang Petroleum Group) and KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) have signed an agreement to create a joint-venture (JV) company in the People’s Republic of China. The purpose of the JV will be to market, sell, deliver…