Oxea GmbH (Oberhausen, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com) has successfully completed the first phase of a three-stage capacity increase at its multi-purpose carboxylic acid production units in Oberhausen, adding 5% to its global carboxylic acid capacity. Upon completion of the entire project scheduled…
Blast furnace 2 at the ThyssenKrupp CSA steel mill in Santa Cruz/Rio de Janeiro state was fired up on schedule and without problems on Thursday evening, December 16, 2010 – five months after blast furnace 1, which is now producing…
JGC Corp. (Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) today announced that it will be selling its 44.94% share interest in M.W. Kellogg Ltd. (MWKL; Greenford, Middlesex, U.K.; www.mwkl.co.uk) to KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com). MWKL is an affiliate of both companies. Following the transaction, MWKL will become…
Medicine Bow Fuel & Power LLC has awarded Aker Solutions (www.akersolutions.com) the front-end engineering and design (FEED) package for its Medicine Bow Industrial Gasification & Liquefaction Plant located near the town of Medicine Bow, Wyoming. Aker Solutions successfully completed a…
Haldor Topsøe S/A (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) has entered into an agreement with BASF’s Catalysts division on the marketing of Topsøe’s line of tail gas treatment catalysts for sulfur recovery units. Tail-gas treatment catalysts are used to remove sulfur compounds as…
On the eve of the 10th anniversary of BASF-YPC, BASF and Sinopec have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly explore the further expansion of their integrated petrochemical joint venture, BASF-YPC Co. The new projects under consideration will extend the…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) plans to expand its existing superabsorbent polymer production capacities at its Antwerp, Belgium and Freeport, U.S. sites. Gradual debottlenecking and technical expansion measures are to raise annual capacity by 70,000 metric tons (m.t.) to a…
Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, the Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the licensing and IP Center of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (www.mairetecnimont.it), has signed a license agreement with Inner Mongolia Bodashidi Co., Ltd. in the Peoples’ Republic of China for a urea plant with a capacity…
Production of chemicals in the U.S. rose in November, and most recent economic data is positive, according to the latest edition of the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com.) Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report. Strong gains were observed in…
Bechtel Corp. (San Francisco, Calif.; www.bechtel.com) will provide design and project management support services for the first commercial nuclear power plant in the Middle East. The plant will be one of four that a consortium headed by the Korean Electric…