CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) says it has entered into an agreement with Phillips 66 to acquire the company’s E-Gas Technology business. The E-Gas solids-gasification technology is a commercially proven process to convert coal or petroleum coke (petcoke) into synthesis…
AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) says it intends to invest a further €65 million in China. The investment will be used to boost capacity and significantly improve operational excellence at AkzoNobel's Surface Chemistry manufacturing sites in Boxing and Ningbo. More…
Royal DSM (www.dsm.com), the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, today announces that it has acquired SolarExcel B.V. (Venray, the Netherlands). SolarExcel has developed a proprietary light-trapping technology that can significantly increase the efficiency of solar panels. With the…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, has been selected to provide technology to produce propylene in China. Fujian Meide Petrochemical Co. will use Honeywell’s UOP C3 Oleflex process technology to convert propane to propylene, a key ingredient in…
Primozone Production AB (Löddeköpinge, Sweden; www.primozone.com) and Ozone Water Systems, Inc. (OWS; Phoenix, Ariz.; www.ozonewatersystems.com), announced today that they have entered into a strategic partnership agreement for the U.S. Under the terms of the agreement, Ozone Water Systems, a leading…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been awarded a contract to construct a synthetic resin (ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer, EVOH) production plant with a capacity of 15,000 ton/yr in La Porte, Houston, planned by the Nippon Synthetic Chemical Industry…
Ube Industries, Ltd. (Ube; Tokyo, Japan; www.ube-ind.co.jp) has established a joint venture (JV) with Lotte Chemical Corp. (Seoul, South Korea), Lotte Chemical Titan Holding Sdn. Bhd. (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), and Mitsubishi Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) to manufacture and market butadiene rubber…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced today that it has been awarded a contract by SK gas, South Korea’s largest importer and distributor of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), for the license and engineering design of a grassroots propane dehydrogenation (PDH)…
Samsung Engineering Co. (Seoul, South Korea; www.samsungengineering.co.kr) signed a contract, worth $650 million (€498 million), with State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (Socar), Azerbaijan’s state-owned company, for the Socar Ammonia and Urea Complex project. Socar CEO Rovnag Abdullayev and Samsung…
Davy Process Technology Ltd. (Davy; London, U.K.; www.davyprotech.com), a Johnson Matthey company, and SEKAB (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.sekab.com), a leading player in the field of the ethanol based chemicals and biofuels, today announced at World Biofuels Markets that they are…