Dow Corning Corp. (Midland, Mich.; www.dowcorning.com) will invest in a 32,000-m2, energy-efficient distribution center in Feluy, Belgium, to expand delivery capabilities and optimize service for customers throughout Europe and the Middle East. The project will represent a total investment of…
U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE; Washington, D.C.; www.energy.gov) Secretary Steven Chu announced today the investment of up to $16.5 million for two major research and development (R&D) initiatives that will support the expansion of renewable transportation fuels production. The first…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced today that a plant using the combined DMTO methanol-to-olefins technology of SYN Energy Technology Co. Ltd. (Dalian, China; www.syn.ac.cn) and Lummus Technology successfully started-up in Baotou, China. It is the world's first methanol-to-olefins unit…
CBW Chemie GmbH Bitterfeld Wolfen (www.cbwchem.com) and WeylChem Group (www.weylchem.com) have reached an agreement with DyStar Colours Deutschland GmbH (Frankfurt; www.dystar.com) for the acquisition of DyStar’s production site in Brunsbüttel, Germany. The site, which is part of the Bayer Industrial…
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the selection of 22 projects that will accelerate carbon capture and storage research and development for industrial sources. Funded with more than $575 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, these R&D…
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK; Brentford, U.K.; www.gsk.com) and Lonza (Basel, Switzerland; www.lonza.com) today announced that they have entered into a new agreement under which Lonza will support the ongoing development of GSK’s biopharmaceutical pipeline by supplying manufacturing capacity for five early stage…
OCTAL Petrochemicals (www.octal.com) recently signed a contract with Uhde Inventa-Fischer (Berlin, Germany and Domat/Ems, Switzerland; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) to build a 550,000-ton/yr plant for the production of PET resin. The contract for delivery of two lines unique to OCTAL will use the…
Schenck Process GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany; www.schenckprocess.com) FCT-ACTech Pty Ltd. (Thebarton, Australia; www.fctinternational.com) have signed a Sales Representation Agreement for the promotion of FCT’s unique Continuous On-Stream Mineral Analyser (COSMA) by Schenck Process in multiple territories including the EU (excluding Scandinavia),…
Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL; New Delhi; www.iocl.com) has chosen Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) to supply the technology for its coker-gas-oil (CGO) hydrotreating unit at its Haldia Refinery. With a design capacity of 1.4-million ton/yr, the new unit will hydro-process…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has received an order from Konkola Copper Mines for the delivery of the third electric furnace and related services for the Chingola copper smelter in Zambia. The order value is approximately €13 million. The order…