SABIC & Linde: 1st commercialization of LAO
Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) and The Linde Group (Munich, Germany;…
Honeywell to establish technology center in India
Honeywell (Morris Township, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) will establish a new technology center in Gurgaon, India, to…
Linde & Algenol: algae-to-biofuel R&D
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) and Algenol Biofuels LLC (Bonita Springs, Fla.; www.algenolbiofuels.com) have…
CB&I wins refinery project in Colombia
CB&I (Houston; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a project valued in excess of $1.4 billion by…
Praxair to build and operate H2 & N2 system for new Indian Oil refinery
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has received a major order from the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.…
Teijin launches closed-loop, polyester-recycling program
Teijin Fibers Ltd (Osaka, Japan; www.teijin.co.jp) announced today the first-ever program in the marine clothing…
Wacker starts dispersion-polymer production in Nanjing
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) has officially opened its new dispersible powder and vinyl…
Cognis Mexico opens new sulfation facility
Cognis Mexico S.A., a subsidiary of Cognis GmbH (Monheim, Germany; www.cognis.com), today opened a new…
Pörner Group to build a new Biturox plant in Morocco
A contract between the Moroccan refining company Samir and Pörner Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH (Vienna, Austria; www.poerner.at) for…
Air Liquide commissions world’s largest CO unit
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has just commissioned what is claimed to be the world’s…
Siemens gasification technology selected for Taylorville Energy Center
Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Fla.; www.siemens.com) has been chosen to provide the coal gasification technology…
Georg Fischer opens factory in India
GF Piping Systems (www.piping.georgfischer.com), a Corporate Group of Georg Fischer AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland), inaugurated on…
Alstom wins air-quality-control orders
Alstom (Paris, France; www.power.alstom.com) has been awarded two contracts worth a total of over €100 million…
Axens lands modernization contract for Talara Refinery
Peruvian Oil Co. Petroperú (Petroleos del Perú S.A.; www.petroperu.com.pe) and Axens (Rueil-Malmaison , France; www.axens.net)…
Wacker opens technical center in India
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is strengthening its presence in India by opening a technical…
Air Liquide to invest in an ASU in China
China owns the world’s third largest coal reserves, and naturally looks into ways of valuing…
Another Unipol PE plant slated for China
Univation Technologies LLC (Houston; www.univation.com) announced that Yulin Energy and Chemical Ltd. of Yanchang Petroleum…
BASF and CSM to develop biobased succinic acid; and more
BASF announces its intention to cease activities in Feluy, Belgium October 22, 2009 — BASF…