W. R. Grace & Co. announced plans to increase its manufacturing capacity with the expansion of its facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The expansion will enable increased production of specialty aluminas, a key raw material in Grace’s premium fluid cracking…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that it will establish a natural gas processing design center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to better support the Southeast Asia market. "Establishing this design and operations center in Malaysia…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com), the world’s third leading hydrogen peroxide producer, announces plans to double production capacity at its Leuna, Germany, site to 80,000 m.t./yr by mid-2010. With this capacity increase, representing a € 40-million investment, Arkema reaffirms its ambition…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) has been awarded by KNM Process Systems Sdn Bhd a contract to provide assistance in the detailed engineering of the fatty acids methyl ester transesterification unit for a biodiesel production plant to be located at the…
Siemens announced that it has acquired the Singapore-based private limited Chemitreat Group to expand the water treatment business in South East Asia. Chemitreat will become part of Water Technologies, a business unit of Siemens’ Industry Solutions division. With sales of…
Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.biz) won two major contracts from the Bulgarian company LUKOIL Neftochim Bourgas AD, part of the Russian petroleum group LUKOIL, to engineer and supply clean-fuels plants for diesel and gasoline desulphurization for its refinery located in…
No manufacturer can calibrate flowmeters more accurately than Endress+Hauser (E+H) Flowtec AG (Reinach, Switzerland; www.endress.com): the company’s new calibration facility sets standards worldwide, the manufacturer claims. “It puts us in a position to satisfy even the highest customer requirements without…
Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, Netherlands; www.dsm.com) has received a grant from the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE; Washington, D.C.) for a technical consortium on an innovative biotechnological approach of bioproducts and biofuels. The grant will fund an extensive enzyme-development program,…
Specialty chemicals group Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is set to make the biggest single investment in its history in Singapore. A new chemical production site for synthetic rubber is to be built at the chemical park on Jurong Island.…
A persistent shortage of potable water in the City of Algiers, Algeria was eased today as the $250-million Hamma Seawater Desalination Plant (SWDP) was officially opened by Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Jeff Garwood president and CEO, GE Water &…