Alfa Laval (Lund, Sweden; www.alfalaval.com) has received two orders for Alfa Laval Packinox heat exchangers from Petrobras in Brazil. The total value is about SEK 55 million and was booked late June 2009. The delivery is scheduled for 2011. …
Rhodia (Paris; www.rhodia.com) today announces its first business development investment in biogas technology, by acquiring Econcern Group’s participation in six pilot biogas production projects located in China and Vietnam. Anticipating the growth of business opportunities in the biogas sector, Rhodia…
Borouge, a joint venture between the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.; www.adnoc.ae), and Borealis (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com), is expanding its production capacity of polyolefins in Abu Dhabi to 4.5 million metric tons per year by the end…
A consortium formed by Evonik Degussa GmbH, Cabot Corp., Columbian Chemicals Co., Timcal Belgium S.A., Sid Richardson Carbon & Energy Co., Continental Carbon Co., and Cancarb Ltd. has successfully submitted the REACH dossier for carbon black to the European Chemicals…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has officially launched a new multilateral collaboration to develop a groundbreaking, innovative technology for the production of synthetic rubber. The new technology will use fewer resources and is therefore considerably more energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly than…
Borouge (Abu Dhabi; www.borouge.com), a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, has awarded a contract worth $1.075 billion to The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com), a world leading gases and engineering company, to build another 1.5 million tonnes…
Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) will supply ammonia synthesis technology for the world’s largest ammonia plant. The plant will produce more than 3,500 tonnes of ammonia per day. Topsøe has signed a contract for the supply of ammonia synthesis…
Novasep (Pompey, France: www.novasep.com), a producer of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and purification technologies for the life science industries, has announced the acquisition of Henogen, a contract manufacturing organization offering bioprocess development and manufacturing services from the cell bank to…
On Sunday morning before the start of Achema 2009 (May 11–15; Frankfurt, Germay) — organizers of the world’s largest exhibition and congress on chemical engineering and biotechnology, Dechema e.V. (Frankfurt; www.dechema.de), as well as industry experts participating in the traditional…
Plant Watch PET resin capacity expands in Saudi Arabia June 15, 2009 — Uhde Inventa-Fischer GmbH (Berlin, Germany) has entered into a contract with the Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) to provide the technology license and the basic engineering for…