Business & Economics
Jacobs receives contract for Huntsman expansion in Singapore
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.huntsman.com) to provide engineering, procurement, construction management and turnaround management services for a capacity expansion of Huntsman's polyether amines manufacturing facility on Jurong…
ItN Nanovation and ThyssenKrupp Xervon Energy establish partnership
ItN Nanovation AG (Saarbrücken; Germany www.itn-nanovation.de), a Nanostart AG (Frankfurt; www.nanostart.de) portfolio company, has signed an exclusive cooperation agreement with ThyssenKrupp Xervon Energy GmbH (Duisburg, all Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-xervonenergy.com) covering the marketing and distribution of the Nanocomp PP product line from ItN Nanovation.…
UOP to expand petrochemicals production in South Korea
HC Petrochem Co. has selected UOP LLC Des Plaines, Ill; www.uop.com) to provide technology for an expansion of its petrochemicals plant in Daesan, South Korea. HC Petrochem Co., Ltd., a joint venture between Japan’s Cosmo Oil (Tokyo) and Hyundai Oilbank…
BASF to establish world-scale production of water treatment and paper chemicals in Nanjing
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has decided to establish a wholly-owned world-scale production base for water treatment and paper chemicals in Nanjing, China, with the construction of a 40,000-ton/yr quaternized-cationic monomers plant and a 20,000-ton/yr cationic-polyacrylamides plant. The two BASF…
Axens technology for Socar & Turcas Aegean Refinery
SOCAR & Turcas Refining has selected Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) hydrotreating technologies for its Aegean Refinery Project at Aliaga province of the Aegean port city of Izmir. The three units under Axens design and fed by the effluents from an…
Topsoe signs contract for sulfur treatment plant
Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) has signed a contract with the Henan Jinkai Group, China. The contract includes a sulfur management plant, which will play a key role in clean coal gasification. The plant will be built in connection…
ABB commissions the most powerful gearless mill drives ever built
ABB (Baden, Switzerland; www.abb.com) has commissioned automation and power equipment that increases production at Boliden AB’s (Stockholm, Sweden; www.boliden.se) Aitik copper concentrator plant, located near Gällivare in northern Sweden. Aitik is Sweden’s largest mine and has now become a global…
ABB and Dresser Masoneilan to collaborate on ESD valve integration
ABB (www.abb.com) will collaborate with Dresser Masoneilan (both Houston; www.dressermasoneilan.com) on an integrated process to monitor, test and manage emergency shutdown valves (ESDV) during all operational conditions, from normal plant operations to abnormal situations. These valves are crucial process elements…
B&W JV signs contract for two large, ultra-efficient coal-fired boilers in China
The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) announced today that Babcock & Wilcox Beijing Company Ltd. (BWBC) has signed a contract to build two 1,000-MW ultra-supercritical coal-fired boilers for a large power plant project in Zhoushan, Zhejiang province,…
Spheripol process technology is chosen for new PP plant in China
LyondellBasell’s (Rotterdam, The Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) Spheripol process technology has been selected by Pucheng Clean Energy Chemical Co. for a new 400,000-ton/yr polypropylene (PP) plant to be built in Pucheng County, Weinan City, Shaanxi Province, in the Peoples Republic of China.…