SOCAR & Turcas Refining has selected Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) hydrotreating technologies for its Aegean Refinery Project at Aliaga province of the Aegean port city of Izmir. The three units under Axens design and fed by the effluents from an…
ABB (Baden, Switzerland; www.abb.com) has commissioned automation and power equipment that increases production at Boliden AB’s (Stockholm, Sweden; www.boliden.se) Aitik copper concentrator plant, located near Gällivare in northern Sweden. Aitik is Sweden’s largest mine and has now become a global…
ABB (www.abb.com) will collaborate with Dresser Masoneilan (both Houston; www.dressermasoneilan.com) on an integrated process to monitor, test and manage emergency shutdown valves (ESDV) during all operational conditions, from normal plant operations to abnormal situations. These valves are crucial process elements…
The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) announced today that Babcock & Wilcox Beijing Company Ltd. (BWBC) has signed a contract to build two 1,000-MW ultra-supercritical coal-fired boilers for a large power plant project in Zhoushan, Zhejiang province,…
Dow Corning Corp. (Midland, Mich.; www.dowcorning.com) will invest in a 32,000-m2, energy-efficient distribution center in Feluy, Belgium, to expand delivery capabilities and optimize service for customers throughout Europe and the Middle East. The project will represent a total investment of…
U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE; Washington, D.C.; www.energy.gov) Secretary Steven Chu announced today the investment of up to $16.5 million for two major research and development (R&D) initiatives that will support the expansion of renewable transportation fuels production. The first…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced today that a plant using the combined DMTO methanol-to-olefins technology of SYN Energy Technology Co. Ltd. (Dalian, China; www.syn.ac.cn) and Lummus Technology successfully started-up in Baotou, China. It is the world's first methanol-to-olefins unit…
CBW Chemie GmbH Bitterfeld Wolfen (www.cbwchem.com) and WeylChem Group (www.weylchem.com) have reached an agreement with DyStar Colours Deutschland GmbH (Frankfurt; www.dystar.com) for the acquisition of DyStar’s production site in Brunsbüttel, Germany. The site, which is part of the Bayer Industrial…
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK; Brentford, U.K.; www.gsk.com) and Lonza (Basel, Switzerland; www.lonza.com) today announced that they have entered into a new agreement under which Lonza will support the ongoing development of GSK’s biopharmaceutical pipeline by supplying manufacturing capacity for five early stage…
OCTAL Petrochemicals (www.octal.com) recently signed a contract with Uhde Inventa-Fischer (Berlin, Germany and Domat/Ems, Switzerland; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) to build a 550,000-ton/yr plant for the production of PET resin. The contract for delivery of two lines unique to OCTAL will use the…