The Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg, Germany; www.siemens.com) is further expanding its position in the Asian growth market: In a new factory to be built in Chengdu in the Chinese province of Sichuan, Siemens will develop and manufacture high-end Simatic…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed a contract with Posco E&C, the Engineering and Construction division of Posco, to design and build two very large air separation units (ASUs), each of which will have an oxygen production capacity of…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill: www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, has been selected by Yantai Wanhua Polyurethanes Co. to provide technology to produce key petrochemicals to meet growing demand in China. Yantai Wanhua will use UOP’s process technology, catalysts and adsorbents…
Europe’s biggest urea plant comes on-stream: ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) contractors have supplied and commissioned a plant for the production of 3,500 metric tons (m.t.) per day of urea solution in Sluiskil, Netherlands, for Yara of Norway, the…
Gruppo Mossi and Ghisolfi (M&G; Milan, Italy; www.gruppomg.com), through its wholly-owned subsidiary Chemtex (Wilmington, N.C.; www.chemtex.com), has founded Beta Renewables, a joint venture (JV) with TPG Capital and TPG Biotech (collectively TPG; San Francisco, Calif.; www.tpgbiotech.com), established to exclusively license…
Envergent Technologies LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.envergenttech.com), a Honeywell company, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Finland’s Green Fuel Nordic Oy under which the two companies would collaborate on projects to convert biomass to renewable fuel for use in…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is strengthening its global asset base and product portfolio for premium, environmentally-friendly phthalate-free plasticizers. The specialty chemicals company has agreed to acquire Unitex Chemical Corp. (Greensboro, N.C.). Financial details were not disclosed. The transaction also…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded a contract by ExxonMobil Chemical for a grassroots lubricant-base-stock facility to be built at ExxonMobil’s integrated refinery and chemical plant complex in Baytown, Texas. The project will provide a new synthetic-lubricant base-stock plant, consisting…
Bulgaria’s economy has registered steady growth in recent years that relies mostly on industry. Non-ferrous metallurgy is one of the fast growing industrial sectors in Bulgaria, making a strong contribution to the development of the country’s economy. The sector is…
The first production facilities in the $1.4-billion expansion of BASF-YPC Co(Nanjing, China; www.basf-ypc.com.cn) have now begun operations. Along with the successful completion of the steam cracker expansion, the newly constructed butadiene extraction plant and the non-ionic surfactants plant are now…