Davy Process Technology Ltd. (DPT; London, U.K.; www.davyprotech.com), a Johnson Matthey company, and The Dow Chemical Company’s (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) Oxygenated Solvents business announced that Wison (Nanjing) Clean Energy Co. (Wison Energy), a member company of the Wison Group (www.wison.com) located in…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) was awarded an energy optimization project for one of Saudi Basic Industries Corp.’s (Sabic; ; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) existing ammonia plant and pack age boilers at Al-Jubail Fertilizer Co. (Al-Bayroni) in the…
Oxea GmbH (Oberhausen, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com) says it will build its first chemical plant for the production of oxo derivatives in Nanjing, China, in 2012. Scheduled to go on-stream in 2013, the new state-of-the-art plant will serve the fast-growing demand for oxo…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced today that Lummus Technology has been awarded a contract by China Coal Shaanxi Yulin Energy & Chemical Co. Ltd. for the license and engineering design of two light olefins recovery units. The plants will…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced today that Lummus Technology has been awarded a contract by Ningbo Haiyue New Material Co. Limited for the license and engineering design of a grassroots sulfuric-acid-alkylation unit to be built near Ningbo City, Zhejiang…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded contracts by Petron to supply sulfur recovery, tail gas treating and hydrogen plant technologies for the Bataan Refinery upgrading project (RMP-2) in the Philippines. CB&I’s combined contracts, which are third quarter awards,…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) plans to produce phthalate-free plasticizers from bio-based succinic acid from 2012 onward. Its strategic partner, BioAmber, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minn., www.bio-amber.com), is a global leader in succinic acid generated on the basis of renewable resources. Under…
On October 20, the official ceremony of commissioning of the new 1,350 metric tons per day. Topsøe methanol plant took place in OAO ShchekinoAzot, Russia. The contract for engineering and supply between Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) and OAO…
Today, Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) and Dow Corning Corp. (Midland, Mich.; www.dowcorning.com) officially inaugurated the completed second phase of their joint pyrogenic silica plant in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu province, China. The pyrogenic silica plant, together with a siloxane plant,…
Cobalt Technologies (Mountain View, Calif.; www.cobalttech.com) and Rhodia (Paris, France; www.rhodia.com) today announced the execution of a Memorandum of Understanding setting the basis for a strategic alliance to develop bio-based n-butanol refineries throughout Latin America. Under the terms of the…