Chemical Engineering
Clariant completes divestment of North American Land Oil business
Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland) announced the completion of the divestment of its North American Land Oil business to Dorf Ketal (Mumbai, India), a specialty chemicals manufacturer and service provider headquartered in India, for $14.5 million on 31 March 2023. Clariant’s…
Ineos completes acquisition of Mitsui Phenols Singapore business
Ineos (London) announced that INEOS Phenol completed its acquisition of the entire asset base of Mitsui Phenols Singapore Ltd from Mitsui Chemicals, a leading Japanese chemicals manufacturer, for a total consideration of $330 million. The business has a turnover of…
Lanxess and Advent International complete foundation of Envalior materials JV
A new joint venture — Envalior — has emerged from the combination of two industry leaders in engineering materials – DSM N.V. (Heerlen, the Netherlands) Engineering Materials (DEM) and Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) High Performance Materials (HPM) – under the…
Chevron Lummus providing process technology for lubricants plant in Brazil
Chevron Lummus Global LLC (CLG) announced a recent contract award from Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) for a new 12,580 barrel/day (bbl/d) hydroisodewaxing (HIDW) unit at the GasLub Hub, a lubricant plant in Itaboraí, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. Chevron Lummus…
Venator completes sale of Iron Oxide business
Venator Materials PLC (Wynyard, U.K.) announced that it has completed the sale of its Iron Oxide business to Cathay Industries. The enterprise value of the transaction was $140 million and Venator expects to receive cash proceeds of approximately $130 million…
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Electrification of Industrial Facilities
Manufacturing complexes may benefit from using more electricity instead of steam and fuel gas for their energy needs. Improved energy efficiency, lower emissions, higher reliability and debottlenecking of utility systems may be achieved Electrification is a popular buzzword when energy…
Energizing the CPI
The first issue of this publication in September of 1902, then titled Electrochemical Industry, contained this statement from professor C.F. Burgess: “Chemical manufacturing was a number of years ago considered best developed when the processes were so simple that no…
Incremental Electrification Drives Sustainability
For decarbonization of chemical processing sites, electrification opens a new world of efficiencies and cost benefits The industrial sector is responsible for one-third of the world’s end-use energy consumption, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA; Washington,…
Patented technology captures real-time ‘hyperspectral’ images
The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M; Spain; www.uc3m.es) has patented a new system for capturing hyperspectral images — those capable of collecting information across a broad frequency range of the electromagnetic spectrum (near-infrared, mid-infrared and terahertz). The system can…