A consortium led by KazMunayGas, Kazakhstan’s state-owned oil and gas company, has awarded the development of a steam cracker to a joint venture formed by Sinopec (Beijing, China) and Técnicas Reunidas S.A. (TR; Madrid, Spain). The Sinopec group will provide…
The Lubrizol Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio) is expanding operations at its Avon Lake, Ohio, manufacturing facility to double the production capacity of Solsperse Hyperdispersants, commonly used by coating and ink formulators for outstanding pigment dispersant performance, and for a variety of…
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) has invested in expanding the coagulant capacity in Fredrikstad in Norway to meet the growing market demand and to ensure production reliability in the Nordic region including Norway, Sweden and Finland. The scope of the investment…
Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL; Mumbai) has selected Univation's UNIPOL PE Process Technology for a world-scale production line to be located at IOCL's Paradip Petrochemical Complex site in Paradip, India. The unit is designed to achieve a nameplate production capacity…
AdvanSix (Parsippany, New Jersey) announced that it has been awarded an approximately $12 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) through the Fertilizer Production Expansion Program (FPEP) supporting the expansion of innovative American fertilizer production strengthening domestic supply…
MAIRE S.p.A. (Milan) announced that NEXTCHEM (Sustainable Technology Solutions), through its subsidiary NextChem Tech, has been awarded by SOCAR two contracts to upgrade and expand the capacity of the Heydar Aliyev Oil Refinery (HAOR) industrial complex in Baku, Azerbaijan. NextChem…
Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) has agreed to acquire SABIC’s 20.62% share in Aluminium Bahrain (ALBA), following the satisfaction of certain agreed conditions, as it continues to pursue regional growth opportunities across its business. The transaction is indicative of Ma’aden’s…
Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland) announced that it has reached an agreement to divest its real estate property “Industrial Park Fechenheim,” Frankfurt am Main, Germany to the Lugman Group, a Frankfurt-based single-family office specialized in real estate, for €95 million in…
PT Inti Karya Persada Tehnik, a subsidiary of Toyo Engineering Corp. (Tokyo) in Indonesia has been awarded an EPC contract by PT. NIPPON SHOKUBAI INDONESIA, a subsidiary of Nippon Shokubai Ltd. (Tokyo) to expand the Super Absorbent Polymer (SAP) production…
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) has been awarded an Engineering, Procurement and Fabrication contract by Shell Deutschland GmbH to supply Electrical Tubular Heater technology for Shell’s Base Oil Distillation Unit in Wesseling, Germany. While Shell Deutschland GmbH had earlier this year announced…