Petron Corp. (www.petron.com), the largest oil refining and marketing company in the Philippines, selected Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) to supply technologies for its Bataan Refinery Upgrading (RMP-2 Project). The project aims heavier crudes processing for higher quality products and propylene…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by Gabon Fertilizers Co. a strategic engineering contract for a world-class grassroots ammonia-urea fertilizer project to be developed at Port Gentil, Gabon. The proposed project includes a 2,200 metric ton (m.t.) per day ammonia…
BASF Corp. (Iselin, N.J.; www.basf.com) today announced that its affiliate, BASF Canada Inc., has joined Quantiam Technologies Inc. (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; www.quantiam.com), as co-shareholders in a newly formed corporation named BASF Qtech Inc. This start-up business will be run as…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with NLMK Novolipetsk Metallurgisk Kombinat on the delivery of a large-scale iron ore pelletizing plant in Stary Oskol, 600 km south of Moscow. NLMK Novolipetsk belongs to the NLMK Group, one of largest…
Sartorius Stedim Biotech (Aubagne, France; www.sartorius-stedim.com) has entered into a patent cross-licensing agreement with GE Healthcare Life Sciences (Chalfont St. Giles, U.K.; www.gehealthcare.com). This will enable the further development of each company’s current and future biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies. “Signing this…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that Fujian Meide Petrochemical Co. selected it to provide key technology to help meet the growing Chinese demand for propylene, a petrochemical used in plastics production. The new propane…
GEA Westfalia Separator Group (Oelde, Germany; www.westfalia-separator.com) has received another order for the delivery of a complete biodiesel plant to Argentina. The Spanish engineering office Isolux is the ordering party, which is responsible as main contractor for the construction of…
Ineos Technologies (www.ineos.com) has licensed its Innovene PP process for the manufacture of polypropylene homopolymers, random copolymers and impact copolymers to the Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group Co. (Ningxia, China). The 300,00-ton/yr Innovene PP plant will produce a wide range of…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with Chilean Codelco, the leading copper producer in the world, for the design and delivery of concentrator technology to Codelco's new Mina Ministro Hales mine in northern Chile. The contract value…
In North America, Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is doubling its capacities for producing the feed amino acid L-lysine. The two-phase expansion of the Blair, Nebraska plant to an annual capacity of 280,000 metric tons (m.t.) is on track…