Al-Waha Petrochemical Co. (Dubai, UAE) has successfully started up its new complex in Al-Jubail Industrial City which includes a 450,000 ton/yr polypropylene (PP) plant based on LyondellBasell’s (www.lyondellbasell.com) Spherizone process technology. Al-Waha was formed in 2006 and is a joint…
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) today announced it will build and commission a state-of-the-art 2,550 metric ton per day (m.t./d) air separation unit (ASU) at Tata Steel Ltd’s plant in Jamshedpur, India. Tata Steel is one of the world’s…
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) today announced it is expanding its vinyl acetate/ethylene (VAE) manufacturing facility at its Nanjing, China, integrated chemical complex. The investment will support continued growth plans for the Celanese Emulsion Polymers business throughout Asia, including China,…
Gazprom Komplektatsiya LLC (a Gazprom subsidiary) has launched an investment program to increase the octane number of the existing gasoline production and also the profitability of its refinery located in Astrakhan, Russia, on the coast of the Caspian Sea. The…
The ChemPro Group, LLC (Boonton, N.J.; www.thechemprogroup.com) and Mo-Fuel (Rural Bio-waste; Sikeston, Missouri), have formed an alliance to commercialize a patented process that will economically and efficiently produce ethanol from cellulose feedstocks. According to Steve Lavorerio, president of ChemPro, the…
Uhde Inventa-Fischer GmbH (Berlin, Germany and Domat/Ems, Switzerland www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) has won a contract for a textile-grade polyester plant with its customer Petrovietnam-Vinatex Dinh Vu Petrochemical and Fiber Joint Stock Company (PVTex; Vietnam). The main contractor is a consortium of Hyundai Engineering,…
Alstom (Paris, France; www.power.alstom.com) and major Canadian power company TransAlta —along with their partners in the governments of Canada and Alberta and Capital Power, an independent power producer— have created a partnership to construct a large-scale carbon dioxide capture and…
Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) is to acquire the solar thermal power company Solel Solar Systems Ltd. (Beit Shemesh, Israel; www.solel.com) To date, the majority stake has been held by Ecofin Ltd., a London-based investment firm, and another major shareholder.…
Cegelec (Paris, France; www.cegelec.com) has been awarded an EPC contract worth over $40 million to design and construct the blast-proof Control Building for QAPCO’s petrochemical complex being part of the new 300,000 metric ton per year (m.t./yr) low-density polyethylene (LDPE)…
The Catalysts Business Line of Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.de) and Solvias AG (Basel, Switzerland; www.solvias.com) have renewed their license agreement for vanadium-doped precious metal powder catalysts for the hydrogenation of nitro compounds. Evonik will continue to market these…