Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) plans to construct manufacturing facilities in China and the U.S. to utilize recently-developed advanced technology for the production of ethanol for chemical applications and other industrial uses. Celanese’s innovative process technology builds on the company’s…
Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) and the Chinese energy group China Power Investment Corp. (CPI) announced their intention to build a coal-based petrochemical plant in China. The two companies signed a letter of understanding (LOU) today in Paris during the…
SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by Jordan Phosphate Mines Co. (JPMC) to upgrade and increase the capacity of two sulfuric acid plants in Aqaba, Jordan. SNC-Lavalin’s revenues from the project…
Univation Technologies LLC (Houston; www.univation) announced that Yulin Energy and Chemical Ltd. of Yanchang Petroleum Group Co. (Yulin) has selected Univation’s Unipol PE Process for a 300,000 metric ton per year polyethylene (PE) plant. The facility will be located in…
Invista (Wichita, Kans; www.invista.com) has signed a technology licensing agreement with Markor Chemical Co. (www.markor.com.cn) for 1,4 butanediol (BDO) manufacturing technology. The licensing agreement covers the manufacturing processes, required technologies, product formulations and expert engineering services for the 100,000-ton/yr BDO…
The technology group The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has won a deal to build two industrial-scale air separation units for the steel corporation Taiyuan Iron & Steel Company Ltd. (TISCO) at its Taiyuan site in the northern province of…
PLANT WATCH Construction starts on new helium plant in U.S. October 13, 2010 — Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) and Matheson (www.mathesongas.com), a member of the Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. (TNSC) group, have announced that onsite…
Kiri Holding Singapore Pvt. Ltd., owner of DyStar Colours Distribution GmbH and DyStar Colours Deutschland GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany; www.dyestar.com), has acquired all the DyStar companies in the U.S. and Canada. The deal will take effect on October 29th, 2010. DyStar…
Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, the Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the licensing and IP Center of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (www.mairetecnimont.it), has signed a license agreement with Tierra del Fuego Energia Y Quimica S.A., an Argentina based company controlled by shareholders from China. The agreement…
Specialty chemicals company Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is to expand annual production capacity at its Dormagen, Germany, site for its ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (EVM) line sold under the product brands Levapren and Levamelt by 30% to 15,000 metric tons.…