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Clariant expands production capacity for dehydrogenation catalysts
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) , a world leader in Specialty Chemicals, today announced to expand the production capacity for Houdry dehydrogenation catalysts. The expansion will be achieved by a low double-digit million Swiss francs investment at its current Louisville, Ky.…
Foster Wheeler awarded EPCm contract for Lanxess’ Nd-PBR plant in Singapore
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) say that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm) contract by Lanxess Butyl Pte. Ltd. for a new neodymium-polybutadiene (Nd-PBR) rubber plant…
Uhde to engineer one of the world’s largest liquid fertilizer plants
OCI Construction Group has selected ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH (Uhde; Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) for an engineering and procurement contract for the construction of one of the world’s largest single-train liquid fertilizer plants to be built in the U.S. Uhde was awarded…
Air Products’ Indura opens new liquid plant in Chile
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) says that Indura, its South American joint venture, has opened a new 84-ton/d industrial gas plant producing liquid oxygen, nitrogen and argon in Puerto Varas, Chile. The new facility, which will include a cylinder…
Novasep to build world’s largest chromatography plant for the pharmaceutical industry
Novasep (Pompey, France; www.novasep.com) announces today an investment of €30 million to build in Europe what will be the world's largest chromatography plant used for the production of a large volume commercial API (active pharmaceutical ingredient). The plant will be…
SNC-Lavalin awarded EPCM contract by Codelco in Chile
SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded a contract by the Chuquicamata Division of Codelco Chile to provide overall project management, as well as detailed engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services, for the upgrade of the concentrators…
CB&I lands FEED contract for new cracker in the U.S
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded contracts by Occidental Chemical Corp. for the technology license, basic engineering and front end engineering and design (FEED) services for a proposed new ethane cracker. The proposed cracker is anticipated to have…
Clariant opens new production unit for halogen-free flame retardants in Hürth-Knapsack
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) is opening a second production unit for the successful flame retardant (FR) Exolit OP at the Hürth-Knapsack plant near Cologne. The established non-halogenated additive is used primarily in the electronics and electrical engineering (E&EE) sector. The…
Fluor to build Shell’s Quest carbon-capture facility in Canada
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced today that Shell selected the firm as its engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for Shell’s carbon capture facility for its flagship carbon capture and storage (CCS) Quest project at the Athabasca Oil Sands…
BASF and CSM establish 50-50 JV for biobased succinic acid
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Purac (Diemen, The Netherlands), a subsidiary of CSM (www.csmglobal.com), are establishing a joint venture (JV) for the production and sale of biobased succinic acid. The company will be named Succinity GmbH and will be…