Envergent Technologies LLC (Des Plaines, Ill; www.envergenttech.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that liquid biofuel produced from biomass by Envergent’s Rapid Thermal Processing (RTP) technology has been successfully demonstrated in industrial burners by Oilon Group (Lahti, Finland; http://netfi.oilon.com), a leading European…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) announced today that Jacobs Engineering SA (JESA), the company's joint venture (JV) with OCP S.A. (OCP; www.ocpgroup.ma), has been selected to provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for two new diammonium…
Axens' (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) technologies have been selected by Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabi; www.saudiaramco.com) for its Jazan Refinery & Terminal Project. The refinery, scheduled to be commissioned in December 2016, will have a capacity of 400,000 barrels per stream…
Yesterday, Momentive Performance Materials Inc.’s (Albany, N.Y.; www.momentive.com) Quartz & Ceramics business kicked off an expansion of its specialty quartz production facility in Geesthacht, Germany, with a ceremony attended by government and business leaders, company officials and plant associates. The…
PPG Industries (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.ppg.com) is increasing its global precipitated-silica production capacity by more than 18,000 ton/yr in response to growing global demand. The capacity expansion includes projects at PPG’s Lake Charles, La., and Delfzijl, Netherlands, manufacturing locations. Kevin Braun,…
The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) announced today that its subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox Canada Ltd. (B&W Canada) has been awarded a contract to supply four modularized boilers for the Kearl Oil Sands Project (Kearl) being developed by…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is strengthening its commitment to produce premium synthetic rubbers from bio-based raw materials. The German specialty chemicals company aims to commercially produce ethylene-propylene-diene monomer (EPDM) from bio-based ethylene by the end of the year. It…
Process Systems Enterprise (PSE; London, U.K.; www.psenterprise.com), providers of the gPROMS high-fidelity process modeling environment and related ModelCare services, today announced the release of its new gCRYSTAL product. gCRYSTAL provides an integrated, easy-to-use, drag and drop graphical environment for model-based…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com), within the framework of a cooperation partnership with Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com), was awarded a contract for providing basic and front end engineering services on a Petrobras grassroots fertilizer complex to be located at…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is building a new plant for manufacturing catalysts for biodiesel production in Argentina. In an official ceremony held on September 15, 2011. The detail engineering of the facility is already complete. The plant, which…