Boliden AB (Stockholm, Sweden; www.boliden.com) has acquired Kemira’s sulfuric acid plant and business in Kokkola, Finland, effective as of 1st May 2010. The acquisition will enable Boliden to conduct its sulfuric-acid-manufacturing operations at Kokkola in-house, and thereby gain control over…
Neste Jacobs Oy (Porvoo, Finland; www.nestejacobs.com) and Eesti Energia (Tallinn, Estonia; www.energia.ee) agreed on building a shale oil condensation unit in Estonia. Neste Jacobs was selected to act as engineering partner for a new shale-oil condensation unit in Estonia. Neste Jacobs and…
Catalytic Distillation Technologies (CDTech; Pasadena, Tex.; www.cdtech.com) has been awarded a contract by TAIF-NK OAO for the license and basic engineering of an FCC- (fluid catalytic cracking) gasoline-treatment unit, as part of an upgrade at its refinery in Nizhnekamsk in the…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announces today that the construction of the Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) cogeneration plant at its industrial site in Bernburg, Germany, has been completed by the Tönsmeier Group and that the plant is now supplying energy for…
AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands;www.akzonobel.com) is to build an additional plant at its Ningbo multi-site for its Functional Chemicals business. The new €17 million project — part of a total investment of €275 million — will further expand the company’s rapidly…
Biotage AB (Uppsala, Sweden; www.biotage.com) and the owners of MIP Technologies AB (Lund, Sweden: www.miptechnologies.com) today announced that the parties have signed a definitive agreement under which Biotage will acquire all outstanding shares in MIP Technologies, a privately held leading…
ZeaChem Inc. (Lakewood, Col.; www.zeachem.com today announced it has produced commercial grade ethyl acetate, thereby proving its core technology platform. Ethyl acetate is a widely-used chemical intermediate that can be sold directly to chemical manufacturers or converted into ethanol. The achievement…
Borouge (Abu Dhabi, UAE; and Singapore; www.borouge.com) — a joint venture between Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. and Borealis (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) — inaugurated its first manufacturing plant in China at a ceremony held at the plant in Shanghai on…
BASF SE’s (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) Catalysts division has completed a number of capital investment projects to strengthen the company’s manufacturing and testing capabilities at its operating facilities in Nienburg and Hannover, Germany. The company today started up a third belt…
Additional polycrystalline-silicon production facilities officially came on stream at Wacker Chemie AG’s (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) Burghausen, Germany, site today. All “Expansion Stage 8” deposition reactors are already up and running. The plant’s full nominal capacity of 10,000 metric tons (m.t.)…