Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announced today that work has begun to build a refuse-derived fuel (RDF) power plant at its site in Bernburg, Germany, which is scheduled to supply energy for the production of sodium carbonate and hydrogen peroxide…
PL Propylene LLC, a PetroLogistics company (Houston, Tex.; www.petrologistics.com), announced today the commencement of a project to construct a 1.2 billion lb/yr propane-dehydrogenation plant to produce propylene. The facility will be located in the vicinity of the Houston Ship Channel…
Only one month after the acquisition of GEA ViEX Inc. Canada (www.geagroup.com), the company has received a significant order for GEABloc custom-designed fully welded heat exchangers from the USA. The equipment will be used in various refinery processes at Sinclair…
Süd-Chemie AG (www.sud-chemic.com) and Linde Group (both Munich, Germany; www.linde.de) have agreed to co-operate on an exclusive basis to develop and market plants for the production of second-generation biofuels. This will involve a biotechnological process to extract fuels, such as…
Wacker Dymatic, a joint venture of Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) and Dymatic Chemicals Inc. (Shunde, China), opened a new silicone emulsion plant in China. The facility, located in the Jiangsu Yangtze River Chemical Industrial Park, Zhangjiagang city (Jiangsu…
ONGC Mangalore Petrochemical—a venture jointly promoted by India's largest crude oil and natural gas producer, Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC; Dehradun, India; www.ongcindia.com), and Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemical Ltd. (MRPL; Mangalore, India; www.mrpl.co.in)—has chosen UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.;…
BASF Corp. (Florham Park, N.J.; www.basf.com) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its manufacturing facility in Shreveport, Louisiana and the related contract manufacturing business for finished pharmaceuticals to Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories (www.drreddys.com) an international pharmaceutical…
As part of a new industrial complex producing Polysilicon, Caloric Anlagenbau GmbH (Gräfelfing , Germany; www.caloric.com) has been awarded a contract for a hydrogen-generation plant that uses methanol as feed stock. In a short period of time, this is another…
As part of a Joint Venture, the technology group The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) and Waste Management Inc. (Houston, Tex.; www.wm.com) will build the world’s biggest plant for the conversion of landfill gas into environmentally friendly biogas in Livermore,…
Qatar Petroleum (www.QP.com) has awarded Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) basic engineering design contracts for the new 250,000 bbl/d Al Shaheen petroleum refinery to be built in the Messaieed Industial City in Qatar. Axens will supply the following process technologies* for…