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New EPC awards for Marie Tecnimont
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.it) has been awarded contracts for a total amount of approximately €260 million for EPC and engineering services activities. In Bratislava (Slovak Republic), the Group has received the award for an Engineering-Procurement-Construction (EPC) Contract on…
Solvay to develop small-sized, onsite H2O2 production units
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) is jointly developing with Peróxidos do Brasil a new concept of small cost-effective hydrogen-peroxide production units for installation at its customers' sites. This onsite H2O2 production concept is based on Solvay's new proprietary and innovative…
BASF commissions new plant for oxidized PE waxes at Ludwigshafen site
A new plant for the manufacture of oxidized polyethylene (PE) waxes went into operation at the BASF SE (www.basf.com) site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The plant manufactures high quality oxidized waxes according to BASF’s own process. The new plant will improve…
Foster Wheeler awarded EPCm contract for hydrodesulfurization-unit revamp
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm) services contract by Total Raffinage-Chimie for the revamp of a hydrodesulfurization unit at…
UOP to expand adsorbents and catalysts production at its Alabama facility
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, says it will invest $20 million to expand its production facility in Mobile, Ala., to produce adsorbents and catalysts. The investment will expand production of UOP’s Ionsiv Ion Exchange adsorbents, which…
Axens Technologies for IRPC Public in Thailand
IRPC Public Co., a company specialized in the production of petrochemical and petroleum-refining products in Thailand, has selected Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) to supply technologies for its new Upstream Project for Hygiene and Value Added Product (UHV project). The complex…
Linde to construct onsite plants for Sadara’s major chemical complex in Saudi Arabia
The technology group The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) and Sadara Chemical Co. (Sadara) recently signed a long-term contract that will see Linde supply Sadara with carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen (H2) and ammonia (NH3) at a chemical complex now being…
Outotec provides process technology for the new copper concentrator in Mexico
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) and Grupo Mexico have signed a contract for the delivery of process technology to Buenavista del Cobre's new second copper concentrator in Mexico. The contract value booked in the first quarter 2012 order intake is…
This new LTS catalyst delivers a boost for H2 and NH3 production
In conventional hydrogen and ammonia plants, the final conversion of CO to H2 occurs across the low-temperature shift (LTS) catalyst. This makes the LTS catalyst one of the most important catalysts in the plant — even small changes in its…
This new route to PLA requires no organic solvent or metal catalyst
A process to make polylactic acid (PLA) that requires no solvent or metal catalyst has been developed by Ricoh Co. (Ricoh; Tokyo, www.ricoh.com), in cooperation with Shizuoka University. Ricoh’s continuous PLA process is based on a commercially available organic catalyst…