Srategic partnership forms for acrylonitrile and sodium cyanide in the Middle East
Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com), Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corp. (Tokyo; www.asahi-kasei.co.jp)…
A new MTR plant for Koksan in Turkey
Koksan PET Packaging Industry Co., a leading producer of PET preforms has signed a contract…
Technip awarded refining contract in Brazil
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com), in consortium with Tomé Engenharia, was awarded by Petrobras a lump…
MHI: Producing biofuel locally at low cost
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.co.jp) has successfully established technology to produce ethanol…
KBR: EPC contract for biomass-to-crude project
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by…
Cobalt Technologies and American Process to build world’s first cellulosic biobutanol refinery
Cobalt Technologies (Mountain View, Calif; www.cobalttech.com) and American Process Inc. (API; Atlanta, Ga.; www.americanprocess.com) today…
Crystallics: A ‘new’ company in pharma development
Avantium Pharma BV (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.avantium.com), a leader in solid-state research and pre-formulation for…
Borealis investes in new butane storage cavern
Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealis.com) has invested €7.8 million to convert an underground naphta cavern…
Metso to supply pulp-mill key technology to Suzano
Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) has concluded an agreement to supply all main technology for…
Pöyry awarded contract for pulp mill project in Brazil
Pöyry Plc’s (Vantaa, Finland; www.poyry.com) Industry Business Group has been awarded a contract for supporting…
Air Products’ LNG technology selected for Indonesia
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has signed an agreement with JGC Corp. ((Yokohama, Japan;…
Dorf Ketal acquires Vertec patents and IP
Effective April 1, Dorf Ketal Chemicals Pvt., Ltd. Mumbai, India; www.dorfketal.com), the world leader in…
Lanxess to expand capacities for high-performance rubber in U.S.
Leverkusen, Seoul, Texas – Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is further expanding its capacities to…
Kobelco opens new compressor plant in Calif.
Kobe Steel, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.konelco.com) announces that subsidiary Kobelco Compressors America, Inc. (KCA) is…
Technip: Contract for a methionine plant in China
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by Bluestar Adisseo Nanjing Co. a detailed engineering, procurement…
Air Liquide: New ASU in the Philippines
The Philippines, a newly industrialized country, experienced a record GDP growth rate of 7.3% in…
Kepco & Uhde form coal-gasification JV
Kepco (Seoul; www.kepco.co.kr), the largest utility in South Korea, and Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu),…
Haldor Topsøe: Another coal-to-SNG plant in China
Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) has been awarded the contract for the second out…
DOE kudos for Dow
The Dow Chemical Co. (Midlands, Mich.; www.dow.com) has been recognized for its excellence in energy…
Lummus lands technology award in Kazakhstan
CB&I ((The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced today that Lummus Technology, a CB&I company, has been…
Sulzer to acquire Cardo’s Flow Solutions Business
Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzer.com) and Assa Abloy AB (Stockholm, Sweden; www.assaabloy.com), the new majority…
Lonza and Roche: MycoTOOL distribution agreement
Lonza (www.lonza.com) and Roche (both Basel, Switzerland; www.rochemengonline.com) have entered into a co-exclusive distribution agreement…
JGC: Lubricants plant project in Indonesia
JGC Indonesia, JGC Corp.’s (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) Indonesian subsidiary, has been awarded a contract for…
Praxair to build new plant in Argentina
Praxair Argentina, a subsidiary of Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) will build a new plant…
Evonik: First project house in Taiwan
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is setting up its first project house outside Germany.…
Styron: New latex-production unit in China
Styron LLC (Midland, Mich.; www.styron.com) plans to expand its latex capacity at its Zhangjiagang, China…
Haldor Topsøe awarded the world’s largest coke-oven gas to SNG plants in China
Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) has been awarded a contract for the world’s two…
Axens and Shaw selected to license 'next-generation' FCC technology
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) and the Shaw Group Inc. (Baton Rouge, La.; www.shawgrp.com) have been…
Air Products collaborates with Tianjin University on advanced chemical-engineering sciences
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has initiated its third joint research and development (R&D)…
AkzoNobel to boost production of microspheres
With an investment of €30 million, AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) is boosting capacity in…