Lummus Technology (Houston) announced that its Novolen business has been selected as the polypropylene (PP) licensor by Anchorage Investments for its Anchor Benitoite project in Suez, Egypt. Lummus' scope includes the technology license for a 590,000 metric tons per year…
For its proposed, integrated propane-dehydrogenation/polypropylene (PDH-PP) plant in Karachi, Pakistan, Engro Corp. has selected process technologies from Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.) and W.R. Grace Co. (Columbia, Md.). Honeywell UOP’s C3 Oleflex technology will be used produce 750,000 metric tons per…
North Huajin Refining and Petrochemical Co. (North Huajin) has signed contracts with Refining Technology Solutions, LLC, a subsidiary of DuPont Clean Technologies, for the license, basic engineering and technical services for a new combined IsoTherming kerosene/diesel hydrotreater (KDHT). The grassroots…
Honeywell announced that Navitas Midstream Partners, LLC (The Woodlands, Tex.) has purchased a 200-million-cubic-foot-per-day gas processing plant from Honeywell UOP to extract natural gas liquids (NGLs) from natural gas produced in several counties in the Permian Basin. Honeywell's solution includes design and supply…
Saint-Gobain (Courbevoie, France) announced the launch of the production of a new plaster plant in China, in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, serving the local construction market. With an annual capacity of 350,000 tons, the new site complies with the highest standards…
Recycling company TSR Recycling GmbH & Co. KG and thyssenkrupp Steel will enter into cooperation based on an innovative production process developed by TSR, in which a high-quality recycling product is made from common recovered scrap. The process is to…
DuPont Mobility & Materials announced it is investing $5 million in capital and operating resources at its manufacturing facilities in Germany and Switzerland to increase capacity for its high-performance automotive adhesives. The investment will expand capacity to support growing demand…
Filtration Technology Corp.’s (FTC; Houston) Invicta technology has been awarded 2020 New Product of the Year by the American Filtration and Separations Society (AFS) during their annual conference, FiltCon 2o21. As described in the conference, Invicta technology is a novel…
Saint-Gobain (Courbevoie, France) has signed an agreement for the acquisition of Duraziv, a Romanian group specialized in the production of adhesives and other value-added construction chemicals solutions. This acquisition will allow Saint-Gobain to expand its range of interior and exterior…
Hexcel Corp. (Stamford, Conn.) plans to build a flagship Center of Excellence for Research & Technology (R&T) to support next-generation developments in advanced composites technologies in Utah, adding up to 150 new high-paying jobs in the next 12 years. “We…