JGC Indonesia, JGC Corp.’s (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) Indonesian subsidiary, has been awarded a contract for the construction of a lubricants production plant in Bekasi, West Java, Indonesia by PT. JX Nippon Oil & Energy Lubricants Indonesia, a local joint venture…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is setting up its first project house outside Germany. Light & Electronics, a research and development unit established on April 1, is located in the Hsinchu Technology Park in Taiwan. The focus of its…
Styron LLC (Midland, Mich.; www.styron.com) plans to expand its latex capacity at its Zhangjiagang, China production facility. The projected additional capacity of latex will help to better serve the growing demand for latex in China’s paper and paper board industry,…
Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) has been awarded a contract for the world’s two largest plants for production of Substitute Natural Gas (SNG) from coke oven gas. The contractor is China National Gas Corp. (CNGC), which is organized under…
With an investment of €30 million, AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) is boosting capacity in Sweden for its Expancel expandable microspheres in order to meet growing global demand. Used as a blowing agent or lightweight filler, the Expancel product line…
Ineos Technologies (Runcorn, U.K.; www.ineos.com) has announced that its Bichlor membrane chlorine technology has been selected by Olin Corp. for the conversion of its Charleston, Tenn. site. In addition Ineos Technologies will supply Olin Corp. with a complete process design…
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) and the Shaw Group Inc. (Baton Rouge, La.; www.shawgrp.com) have been selected to license a next-generation catalytic cracking technology that will help refiners maximize the production of propylene and other high-value refinery products. The advanced technology, High…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has initiated its third joint research and development (R&D) project with the State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering of Tianjin University (China; www.tju.edu.cn/english) on advanced chemical-engineering sciences. This project, which focuses on distillation and…
The Air Liquide Group (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed long-term agreement with Severstal, Russia’s leading steel producer. Air Liquide will supply oxygen, nitrogen and argon to Severstal’s new steel plant in Balakovo, located in the region of Saratov (Volga Federal…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has acquired the Vertical Pressure Filter (VPF) technology and its intellectual property rights from Australian Process Technology Pty Ltd (North Fremantle, Australia), a filters supplier for the alumina refining industry. The parties have agreed not…