PetroChina Sichuan Petrochemical Co., Ltd. (PetroChina) has chosen LP Oxo SM SELECTORSM 10 Technology for its new facility in Chengdu, capital city of Southwest China’s Sichuan Province. LP Oxo Technology is cooperatively offered by Dow Technology Licensing, a business unit…
Süd-Chemie Zeolites GmbH, a subsidiary of Süd-Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.sud-chemie.com) has begun to expand its production plant for new specialty zeolites, and also construct a new wastewater processing plant, at its Bitterfeld site in Germany. The investment amounts to…
Bayer (www.bayer.com) has launched an integrated, group-wide "Bayer Climate Program," with which it plans to further reduce CO2 emissions from its production facilities while developing new solutions for increasing climate protection and dealing with climate change. In the climate protection…
The Chinese government today officially opened the first hydrogen service station in Shanghai. The Shanghai Anting Hydrogen Refuelling Station was built by The Linde Group (www.linde.com), Tongji University (Shanghai, China) and Shell Hydrogen (www.shell.com/hydrogen). The station is part of the…
The globalization of the economy is making the world a smaller place and leading businesses — the chemical process industries (CPI) included — to source, produce and sell material in foreign lands. Politics aside, the trend has the potential to…
Rabigh Refining & Petrochemical Co., a 50:50 joint venture of Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, both Saudi Arabia) and Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6901-537), is constructing a new plant to produce 200,000 m.t./yr of propylene oxide (PO). When…
Plant Watch BASF inaugurates two new plants in Texas October 8, 2007 — BASF inaugurated two new manufacturing plants at its site in Freeport, Tex. The polyamide production line, which replaces a facility in Enka, N.C., has a capacity of…
Outotec Oyj (www.outotec.com) has been awarded a contract by Boliden for the supply of a complete flotation circuit for Aitik mine's copper ore project in Sweden. Earlier this year Boliden has ordered engineering services from Outotec for the same project.…
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) has recently been awarded several major basic engineering design packages and technology licenses for new, clean-fuels programs with Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. (IndianOil; www.iocl.com). The contracts are for the following refineries: Guwahati, Barauni, Mathura, Digboi, Panipat,…
The Dow Chemical Co. (www.dow.com) announced today its intent to stop producing and marketing hydroxyalkyl acrylates (HAA) by the end of 2007. The HAA product line includes hydroxyethyl acrylate (HEA) and hydroxypropyl acrylate (HPA). These products are sold largely to…