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Air Liquide to construct ASU at Chinese steelmaking site

Air Liquide (Paris) and Jiangsu Shagang Group, the largest private steel enterprise in China and one of top 5 globally, have signed a new long-term agreement for the supply of industrial gases in Zhangjiagang City, Jiangsu Province, China. Air Liquide…

MOL Group and Tatneft to construct rubber bitumen plant in Tartarstan

MOL Group (Budapest, Hungary) and Tatneft (Almetyevsk, Republic of Tartarstan, Russia) have launched a joint project for a rubber bitumen plant in the Republic of Tatarstan. The companies have also agreed to establish a joint venture that, besides manufacturing and…

thyssenkrupp Fertilizer Technology and Abu Qir Fertilizers sign contract for low-emission urea granulation

Thyssenkrupp Fertilizer Technology, a subsidiary of thyssenkrupp Uhde (Dortmund, Germany), has signed a contract with Abu Qir Fertilizers Co., for the revamp of their Abu Qir 3 urea granulation plant in Alexandria, Egypt. For the revamped plant, which is planned…

BASF to expand mobile-emissions catalysts plant in Chennai

BASF Catalysts India Pvt. Ltd.will expand its mobile emissions catalysts production plant in Chennai, India. This double-digit million Euro investment will nearly double the company’s catalysts production capacity for the heavy-duty on- and off-road segment. The completion of the expansion…

Enterprise acquires ethylene storage business from NOVA Chemicals

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (Houston) and NOVA Chemicals Corp. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)  announced that a subsidiary of Enterprise has acquired a wholly owned subsidiary of NOVA Chemicals, which operates an ethylene storage business and trading hub in Mont Belvieu, Texas.…

Mitsubishi Chemical licenses bio-based polyester technology to Kuraray

Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo) announced that it has signed a licensing agreement with Kuraray Co. (Tokyo) for the patent to a biomass-based polyester technology. The products covered by this license include polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which use renewable biomass resources,…

Valmet and Neles announce merger plans

Valmet Oyj (Espoo, Finland) and Neles Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) announce that their respective Boards of Directors have today signed a combination agreement and a merger plan to combine the two companies through a merger. The Combined Company will be a…

Maire Tecnimont awarded EPCC contract for IOCL’s new polypropylene plant

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announces that a consortium composed of its subsidiaries Tecnimont S.p.A. and Mumbai-based Tecnimont Pvt Ltd. has been awarded an EPCC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning) Lump-Sum contract by IndianOil Corp. Ltd. (IOCL; New Delhi) for…

Dow to add new silicones, propylene glycol and specialty materials capacity

Dow, Inc. (Midland, Mich.) announced a series of incremental, high-return capacity expansions to support growing demand across key end-markets, all of which value sustainable solutions and continue to grow faster than GDP. In Dow’s Consumer Solutions business, several key growth…

Metso Outotec delivers grinding package for NALCO alumina refinery in India

Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has been awarded a contract for the engineering and delivery of a bauxite grinding package to National Aluminium Company’s (NALCO) Damanjodi Alumina Refinery for their 5th stream expansion project in Odisha, India. Typically, the value of this…