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Solvay commissions new NaHCO3 plant in U.S.

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announces today that its American affiliate Solvay Chemicals, Inc. has commissioned and brought online one of the world’s only dedicated manufacturing facilities that reclaims and transforms sodium carbonate waste streams from processed trona into a marketable…

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DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products expanding Bio-PDO production

DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products, LLC (Loudon, Tenn), a joint venture between DuPont (www.dupont.com) and Tate & Lyle (www.tateandlyle.com), today announced an expansion to their facility here to increase production of bio-based 1,3 propanediol (Bio-PDO) by 35%. Construction is…

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Linde builds ASU in Kazakhstan

The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) is set to construct a large, state-of-the-art air separation unit (ASU) for ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel corporation, at ArcelorMittal’s Temirtau site in Kazakhstan. This plant will be Kazakhstan’s first industrial-scale development with a…

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Inauguration of world’s largest ethane cracker

Total S.A. (Paris. France; www.total.com) announces the inauguration of the world’s largest olefin cracker based on ethane in Ras Laffan, Qatar. With a production capacity of 1.3 million tons of ethylene per year, the Ras Laffan Olefin Cracker (RLOC) will feed…

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Messer secures supply of CO2 in Vietnam

Industrial gases specialist Messer Group GmbH (Sulzbach/Frankfurt, Germany; www.messergroup.com) has signed a contract that secures access to a CO2 source in the southern Vietnamese province of Binh Phuoc. Messer will receive 200 metric tons (m.t.) of raw carbon dioxide per…

DSM Biologics plans biopharmaceutical manufacturing in Australia

DSM Biologics, a business unit of DSM Pharmaceutical Products (Parsippany, N.J.; www.dsmpharmaceuticalproducts.com) has signed a preliminary agreement to enter a partnership with the Australian Governments (Queensland State Government and the Commonwealth of Australia) to design, build and operate the first…

Aker Solutions’ Vic Edwards reviews Facilities Planning

Could facilities planning become a new paradigm in chemical engineering?     Engineering has long been enriched by applying science, mathematics and other fields to industrial pursuits. Chemical engineering began as an offshoot of industrial chemistry and mechanical engineering. Unit…

Michael Bellamy appointed general manager of GE Oil& Gas PII Pipeline Solutions….

Bellamy Quasey Hancook Johnson Hayes Michael Bellamy is appointed general manager of the PII Pipeline Solutions business of GE Oil & Gas (Northumberland, U.K.). Jim Quasey is named vice-president of global operations for Industrial Scientific Corp. (Pittsburgh, Pa.). Kim Holman…

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SABIC signs an agreement with Celanese for the construction of a polyacetal facility and other business news

Air Liquide plans four new oxygen units for China April 19, 2010 — Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed two contracts to supply four air separation units (ASUs). Air Liquide Hangzhou, the Engineering & Construction center in China, will…

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Outotec acquires Edmeston

 Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has acquired all shares in Edmeston AB (Gothenburg Sweden; www.edmeston.com), a company specializing in sulfuric acid production equipment and systems. The transaction is subject to completion of confirmatory due diligence, and it is expected to…