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…
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…
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…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has launched a project to build a specialty polymers production plant for Solef Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF), Tecnoflon Fluoroelastomers (FKM) and their essential monomer VF2 in China to satisfy the growing demand for these high value-added…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, has been selected by the Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Co. (Takreer) to provide key technology for a new petrochemical production unit in the United Arab Emirates. The new propane dehydrogenation (PDH)…
Novo Nordisk A/S Bagsværd, Denmark; www.novonordisk.com) is investing close to 1 billion Danish kroner (€134 million) in a new factory in Kalundborg, Denmark, for the production of biopharmaceuticals such as haemophilia medicine, growth hormone and other current and future pharmaceuticals.…