Chemical Engineering
PPG to expand coatings manufacturing capacity in the Netherlands and Poland
PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.) announced an expansion of its coatings manufacturing capacity in Europe for packaging applications. The investments at sites in The Netherlands and Poland will support growing customer demand in the region for the latest generation of coatings for…
Diab Group acquires Sabic’s Ultem resin-based foam production assets
Diab Group (Helsingborg, Sweden) has agreed to acquire the ULTEM foam-production line from SABIC (Jubail, Saudi Arabia). Diab will incorporate the ULTEM resin-based foam into its current portfolio under the name Divinycell U. Diab will further the development of ULTEM…
Yokogawa Bio Frontier commences production of sulfated cellulose nanofibers
Yokogawa Bio Frontier, Inc., a subsidiary of Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo), announced that it has commenced sales of 100% plant-derived sulfated cellulose nanofiber (S-CNF). The company is initially providing samples to prospective customers, and will subsequently scale up production in…
Saipem awarded $520-million contract for ADNOC Sour Gas expansion
Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) has received a Letter of Award from ADNOC Sour Gas, a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) , for a new contract related to the Optimum Shah Gas Expansion (OSGE) &…
Aemetis awards contracts to Worley, Koch Project Solutions for ‘Carbon Zero’ renewable-fuels plant
Aemetis, Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.) has awarded an engineering services contract to Worley (North Sydney, Australia) for the Aemetis ‘Carbon Zero’ renewable jet and diesel plant in Riverbank, California. The Aemetis Carbon Zero renewable jet and diesel project is designed to hydrotreat…
Messer to build large-scale ASU in central Texas
Messer Americas, a part of Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany), announced plans to build a large-scale air separation unit (ASU) to manufacture liquid atmospheric products in central Texas. The new air separation plant will produce medical and industrial gases…
Kemira completes emulsions and bio-acrylamide expansion in Alabama
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) has completed the installation of new state-of-the art production units for emulsion polymers and bio-acrylamide monomer at its manufacturing site in Mobile, Alabama. Production has started and the facility is expected to be fully operational during…
Axens and Sulzer join forces to license advanced FCC naphtha-processing technology
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Sulzer Chemtech’s (Winterthur, Switzerland) GTC Technology business, a global licensor of refinery and petrochemical process technologies, have formed an alliance to license an advanced process for FCC (fluid catalytic cracking) naphtha processing. The combined offering is…
Saipem and Technip Energies awarded contracts for design of Norway’s Barents Blue ammonia plant
Horisont Energi (Sandnes, Norway) announced that it has selected Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) and Technip Energies B.V. (Paris) for two independent concept studies for the full conceptual design of the Barents Blue carbon-neutral ammonia plant in Hammerfest, northern…
Sinopec starts up two Dupont alkylation units
DuPont Clean Technologies has announced the successful startup of the STRATCO alkylation units at the Zhongke Refinery and Petrochemical Company LTC refinery in Zhejiang, China and the Sinopec Shanghai Company (SPC) refinery in Jinshan, Shanghai, China. Both alkylation units at…