A commercial first for the UOP MaxEne process in China
The first commercial installation Honeywell’s UOP MaxEne Process successfully entered production at Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical Co.’s (YPC) integrated refinery and petrochemical facility in Nanjing, China. The new technology from Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) generates substantially higher yields of the chemical components used to make plastics, and has processed more than 2.5 million metric tons of naphtha feed since entering operation. » |
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Evonik acquires Specialty & Coating Additives business of Air Products
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is acquiring the Specialty & Coating Additives business (Performance Materials Division) of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. for $3.8 billion, strengthening its leading position on the high-margin specialty & coating additives market. The transaction is intended to be completed by the end of the year. » |
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ABB to automate 13-km long conveyor system at Chuquicamata copper mine in Chile
ABB (Baden, Switzerland; www.abb.com) won an order from Tenova TAKRAF Chile to automate one of the world’s most powerful conveyor-belt systems to be built at Chuquicamata Mine in Chile. The belt system will deliver copper ore from the underground mine directly to the concentrator plant, 13 km away from the mine site. When complete, the conveyor system will be one of the world's largest and most complex. » |
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MilliporeSigma expands French development site with installation of new bioreactor
MilliporeSigma (Billerica, Mass.; www.emdgroup.com) announced the expansion of its state-of-the-art single-use current good manufacturing process (cGMP) facility with the addition of the Mobius 2000-L single-use bioreactor. With the new upstream suite at its Biodevelopment Center in France, MilliporeSigma can offer full process-line cGMP manufacturing, comprised of MilliporeSigma's own instrumentation and products. » |
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BASF sells former sterols production plant to
Trecora Resources
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany, www.basf.com) sold its former sterols manufacturing facility in Pasadena, Tex., to Trecora Chemical (TC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Trecora, a leading provider of high purity specialty hydrocarbons and waxes. Both parties agreed not to disclose financial details of the transaction. » |
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Hexcel breaks ground in Morocco for engineered
core facility
Hexcel Corp. (Stamford, Conn.; www.hexcel.com) recently broke ground on a new $20-million engineered core facility at the MidParc Free Trade Zone Industrial Park in Casablanca, Morocco. Presiding over the groundbreaking ceremony were Hexcel vice president and general manager, Thierry Merlot, and Mr. Moulay Hafid Elalamy, Moroccan Minister for Industry, Commerce, Investment and Digital Economy. » |
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