Cellulosic biofuel demonstration in China
Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark: www.novozymes.com), COFCO Ltd. (www.cofco.com/en) and Sinopec Corp. (both Beijing, China; english.sinopec.com) signed a…
Milestones in distributed production of biofuels
A biomass-to-liquids (BTL) demonstration plant jointly operated by the Oxford Catalysts Group Plc. (Abingdon, U.K.;…
Flexible carbon capture CFB technology moves closer to commercialization
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) has signed, together with ENDESA and the Spanish Foundation,…
Startup of large biomass CFB in Finland
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today the successful start of commercial operation of…
$1.075 billion contract for construction of Borouge 3 ethane cracker in Abu Dhabi signed
Borouge (Abu Dhabi in the UAE; www. borouge.com), a joint-venture between the Abu Dhabi National…
Borouge awards three EPC contracts for Borouge 3 expansion project
Borouge, a joint-venture between the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. and Borealis has awarded three major…
Laos instant-coffee plant for GEA Niro
GEA Niro (Soeborg, Denmark; www.niro.com) has recently won a contract worth several million Euros with…
Fluor awarded contracts by Ma'aden-Alcoa JV
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has won a series of contracts from the joint venture comprising…
Lanxess invests $10 million in Gevo
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com), the world’s largest producer of synthetic rubber, has invested in…
Cognis opens new APG facility in China
Cognis GmbH (Monheim, Germany; www.cognis.com) today officially opened a new state-of-the-art production facility for alkyl polyglucoside…
Sonara refinery upgrade in Cameroon
Cegelec (Paris, France; www.cegelec.com), an international group providing technological services to companies and public authorities,…
Alstom invests in BrightSource Energy
Alstom (Paris, France; www.alstom.com) says it will complement its strong portfolio in renewables through a partnership…
Honeywell and DuPont form JV to manufacture new refrigerant
Honeywell (Morristown, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) and DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) today announced a manufacturing joint venture…
Outotec to deliver a copper plant in Chile
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Minera Lumina Copper S.A. on the delivery of…
Toyo wins urea contract from Cuba
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been awarded a contract from Cuvenpeq S.A.…
Construction starts on first Lanxess plant in Russia
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is today officially starting work on construction of its first…
Holly selects GTC Technology’s BenZap technology
GTC Technology US, LLC (Houston; www.gtctech.com) was selected by Holly Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.hollycorp.com) and…
Messer commissions new CO2 recovery plant
Messer Group GmbH (Sulzbach/Frankfurt, Germany; www.messergroup.com) has commissioned a new CO2 liquefaction plant with a…
EdeniQ & Logos seek DOE integrated bio-refinery funding
EdeniQ, Inc. (Visalia, Calif,; www.edeniq.com) and Logos Technologies, Inc. (Arlington, Va.; www.logos-technologies.com) announced today the signing…
Outotec to deliver flotation technology for First Quantum Minerals
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with the First Quantum Minerals Limited Projects Office (Perth,…
Lonza selects Nansha for new vitamin B3 plant
Lonza Group Ltd. (Basel, Switzerland; www.lonzagroup.com) has selected Nansha, its leading high-tech life-science site in China,…
Buhler & Sigma-Aldrich ink nanoparticles agreement
The Buhler Group (Uzwil, Switzerland; www.buhlergroup.com) and Sigma-Aldrich (www.sigma-aldrich.com) have signed an agreement in which research…
Thai Paraxylene to license ExxonMobil’s PxMax technology
ExxonMobil Chemical Technology Licensing LLC (EMCTL) and ExxonMobil Catalyst Technologies LLC (EMCT; www.exxonmobilchemical.com) today announced…
First Meteor EO/EG process facility starts up in China
Sinopec-SABIC (Tianjin) Petrochemical Co., Ltd (SSTPC), a joint venture between Sinopec and SABIC, relies on…
Outotec Kaldo furnace technology for Boliden
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with Boliden AB (Stockholm, Sweden; www.boliden.com)…
Celanese acquires LCP and PCT product lines from DuPont Performance Polymers
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) today announced that its Advanced Engineered Materials business has completed…
Lanxess and TSRC to create rubber JV in China
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) and TSRC Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan www.tsrc.com.tw) will enter into a 50:50…
Topsøe signs contract with Pemex
Pemex Refinacion (Pemex-Refining; Mexico; www.ref.pemex.com) and Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) have signed a…
DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products expanding Bio-PDO production
DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products, LLC (Loudon, Tenn), a joint venture between DuPont (www.dupont.com)…
Linde builds ASU in Kazakhstan
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) is set to construct a large, state-of-the-art air separation…