BASF & Ineos JV: Styrolution
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Ineos Industries Holdings Limited (Lyndhurst, U.K.; www.ineos.com) have announced…
ABB to acquire Baldor Electric
ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) and Baldor Electric Co. (Fort Smith, Ark.) have agreed that ABB…
Lummus lands contracts in China
Lummus Technology (The Woodlands, Tex.), a CB&I company (www.cbi.com), has been awarded a contract by…
Dow increases PG capacity at Stade plant
The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) has increased its monopropylene glycol (MPG) capacity by…
BASF to acquire CRI/Criterion’s global styrene catalysts business
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has signed a purchase agreement to acquire the styrene catalysts…
Making suberabsorbents from CO2
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF; Bonn, Germany) has pledged €2.2 million in…
Air Liquide invests in ASU in China
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed a long-term contract with Tongmei Guangfa Chemical Industry…
SNC-Lavalin: Copper contract in Saudi Arabia
SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal; Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded a contract by Bariq Mining to provide…
Outotec technology for Outokumpu's ferrochrome plant
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) will deliver sintering and ferrochrome smelting technology for the expansion…
Wacker and Dow Corning open China’s largest integrated silicone manufacturing site
After four years of construction, Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) and Dow Corning Corp.…
Praxair starts up large H2 facility in Indiana
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has begun supplying BP’s petroleum-refinery complex in Whiting, Indiana, with…
Linde expands gas-supply infrastructure for GCL
The technology group The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) is set to further expand its…
BASF: Production facility for battery materials
In Elyria, Ohio, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has commenced construction of a more than…
Foster Wheeler: Solar-steam generator for in UAE
The Global Power Group of Foster Wheeler AG’s (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) has been awarded a…
Evonik and SKC: JV for H2O2 production
The signing of a deal in Essen on November 11, 2010, sees SKC (Seoul, Korea)…
Evonik grants licenses to EPC Engineering Consulting
At the end of 2011, the Russian company Korund Cyan will commission, in the Nizhny…
Petrobras selects UOP technology for two refineries
UOP LLC (Des Planes, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.…
BASF restructures paper-chemicals business
With a view to future growth markets for paper chemicals and dyestuffs in China, Indonesia…
JGC lands water-treatment project in Saudi-Kuwait Neutral Zone
JGC Gulf International, JGC Corp.’s (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) subsidiary in Saudi Arabia, has been awarded…
China’s first LNG cold-energy ASU
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) today announced China’s first air separation…
Teijin to enter high-performance PE market
Teijin Ltd. (Tokyo; www.teijin.co.jp) announced today that it will enter the high-performance polyethylene (HP-PE) market…
BMS: Sustainable production and processes
Bayer MaterialScience (BMS; Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayerbms.com) is driving forward the modernization of its production sites…
Solvay to convert Hg-based electrolysis to membranes in Tavaux
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) will invest in converting the mercury-based electrolysis into better performing…
Chevron to acquire Atlas Energy
Chevron Corp. (San Ramon, Cakif.; www.chevron.com) and Atlas Energy, Inc. (Philadelphia, Pa.; www.atlasenergyresources.com) announced today…
SNC-Lavalin-led JV wins contract on Cobre Panama copper-mine project
Joint Venture Panama (JVP), a joint venture led (70%) by SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Canada; www.snclavalin.com), along…
Celanese develops advanced technology for producing industrial-use ethanol
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) plans to construct manufacturing facilities in China and the U.S.…
Lanxess buys businesses from Flexsys
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has agreed to acquire two businesses from Flexsys, a division…
Air Liquide invests in Turkey
Turkey is currently undergoing very dynamic development; the Turkish economy saw growth of more than…
Total and CPI to study coal-to-olefins petrochemical project in China
Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) and the Chinese energy group China Power Investment Corp. (CPI)…
SNC-Lavalin to revamp H2SO4 plants in Jordan
SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract…