Effective July 1, 2009, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has reorganized its Petrochemicals Division. In the new organization, the number of business units has been reduced from six to four. The new clustering of businesses also comes along with new business…
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…
Tie-in opportunities are few and far between. These rules of thumb will help make sure everything and everyone line up in time A majority of capital projects today are either debottlenecks or revamps that are intended to increase capacity, squeeze…
Atlas Copco’s (Antwerp, Belgium; www.atlascopco.com) Oil-free Air division has announced that the company’s ZR series of water-cooled oil-free air compressors with built-in energy recovery systems is the first in the world to be TÜV certified for ‘net zero energy consumption’…
Due to the continuing global economic crisis, specialty chemicals group Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is postponing the construction of its new butyl rubber facility in Singapore. Production is now scheduled to start in 2014. Lanxess will use the time…
Ningxia Hanas Natural Gas Company Ltd has awarded Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) a lump sum contract for of a mid-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant to be built in Yinchuan, China. The contract covers the engineering, supply of main equipment,…
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) has announced that it will rename its AT Plastics Inc. business, an ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) copolymer and low density polyethylene (LDPE) resin producer, Celanese EVA Performance Polymers Inc. The name change is expected to…
Honeywell (Morristown, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) has signed a definitive agreement valued at approximately $400 million to acquire the Kassel, Germany-based RMG Group (RMG Regel + Messtechnik GmbH and all of its subsidiaries, together RMG; www.rmg.de). RMG will be integrated into Honeywell…
The first major pieces of equipment have arrived at Duke Energy’s integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) plant in Edwardsport, Indiana. Using GE IGCC technology, the plant is expected to be the largest cleaner coal IGCC facility of its type in the…