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Kemira acquires advanced process optimization startup SimAnalytics

Following an initial investment in August 2021, Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) has now acquired the entirety of  SimAnalytics. With the acquisition, Kemira strengthens its capability to support its customers’ business with data-driven predictive services and machine learning solutions. “Services are…

Manufacturing Mindset for the Energy Industry

  Ebook: Integrate your energy asset data The data supporting capital project lifecycles and operational assets contain intelligence that provides performance-enhancing insights. But how can you effectively utilize this data? Many industries have shown that adopting a Digital Lifecycle Excellence…

TA’ZIZ and Proman to develop the U.A.E.’s first methanol plant

Abu Dhabi Chemicals Derivatives Co. RSC Ltd (TA’ZIZ) and PROMAN AG (Wollerau, Switzerland), one of the world’s leading producers of methanol, have signed a shareholders’ agreement to develop the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) first world-scale methanol production facility at the…

OQ Chemicals to expand production capacity for carboxylic acids

OQ Chemicals GmbH (Monheim am Rhein, Germany) has announced further  plans to expand its production capacity for carboxylic acids. The company has invested in an optimization and debottlenecking project for precursors at its plants in Germany. Structural work has already…

TechnipEnergies awarded contract to upgrade sulfur-recovery units Aramco’s Riyadh Refinery

Technip Energies (Paris) – as part of its long-term agreement with Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) – has been awarded a contract to upgrade sulfur recovery facilities at Aramco’s Riyadh Refinery. This contract covers the implementation of three new tail gas…

Técnicas Reunidas awarded contract for $1-billion ammonium complex in Kazakhstan

KAZAZOT, the leading company in the fertilizer industry in Kazakhstan, has selected Técnicas Reunidas S.A. (TR; Madrid, Spain) as the contractor to develop a new ammonium, urea, nitric acid and ammonium nitrate complex. With a total investment of approximately $1 billion, the…

Emerson selected to automate the Middle East’s largest ethane cracker

Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.) will provide automation technologies, software and analytics for the Ras Laffan Petrochemical Complex in Qatar as part of a consortium with Viasat Energy Services, a division of global communications company. The $6 billion integrated polymers project,…

Covestro and Lanxess announce cooperation to reduce carbon footprint for Lower Rhine production sites

Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) and Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) are cooperating in the energy-intensive production of basic chemicals at their Lower Rhine sites in Germany and make them more climate friendly. LANXESS sources chlorine, caustic soda and hydrogen from the…

Metso Outotec and thyssenkrupp Uhde sign MoU with Ma’aden for sustainable phosphogypsum processing

Metso Outotec Oy (Helsinki, Finland) and thyssenkrupp Uhde have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Ma’aden in Saudi Arabia for developing a novel circular concept to improve the sustainability of Ma’aden’s phosphate operations.  The aim is to design a…

Liquid Wind selects AFRY for basic engineering work on second e-fuels facility

The Swedish electrofuel developer Liquid Wind (Gothenburg, Sweden) has selected AFRY AB (Stockholm, Sweden) to provide basic engineering for the balance of plant for its second electrofuel facility in Sweden – FlagshipTWO in Sundsvall. Liquid Wind’s ambition, together with Sundsvall…