Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) announced that it has agreed on final terms to sell its 50% stake in the RusVinyl joint venture (JV) to its joint venture partner Sibur (Moscow, Russia). Upon completion, the divestment will represent another important milestone…
Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) has been selected to provide the methanol license and engineering services for Perstorp AB's (Malmö, Sweden) ground-breaking Project Air in Stenungsund, Sweden. The initiative – which will substitute all the fossil methanol used by Perstorp in…
Arafura Rare Earths Ltd has awarded Chemetics Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Worley and leading provider of technology for sulfuric acid and other specialty chemical facilities, the contract to install Chemetics CORE-SO2 sulfuric acid technology, at its Nolans Project…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that its ammonia technology has been selected for a large-scale one million tons per year low-carbon ammonia facility in the Middle East GCC region. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide the technology license,…
Archroma (Basel, Switzerland) announced the closing of the acquisition of the Textile Effects business from Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.) When the Huntsman Textile Effects acquisition was first announced in August 2022, Archroma Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Heike van…
Bechtel (Reston, Va.) was awarded a contract by Sicona Battery Technologies to perform an engineering study for a U.S. manufacturing plant that will produce the cutting-edge battery anode components needed for electric vehicles. "Bechtel will help Sicona deliver a long-lasting…
The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), which was passed into law last August, directs federal funding to a variety of sectors in the forms of grants, loans and tax incentives for corporations, and to a lesser extent to…
From headsets to gloves to fabric sensors, technologies that can be worn on the body are providing many new benefits for plant workers Apace with innovations in all “smart” technologies, wearable devices for industrial personnel are rapidly evolving to incorporate…
Fractional crystallization is a stage-wise separation technique that relies upon the liquid-solid phase change and enables the purification of multi-component mixtures, as long as none of the constituents can act as a solvent to the others. Thanks to the level…
The inherent characteristics, requirements and special concerns of pilot- and laboratory-scale distillation columns differ from those of commercial-scale equipment. The scale-related differences of distillation assemblies are presented here Distillation processes at any scale share many of the same theoretical and…