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Styron: New latex-production unit in China
Styron LLC (Midland, Mich.; www.styron.com) plans to expand its latex capacity at its Zhangjiagang, China production facility. The projected additional capacity of latex will help to better serve the growing demand for latex in China’s paper and paper board industry,…
Haldor Topsøe awarded the world’s largest coke-oven gas to SNG plants in China
Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) has been awarded a contract for the world’s two largest plants for production of Substitute Natural Gas (SNG) from coke oven gas. The contractor is China National Gas Corp. (CNGC), which is organized under…
AkzoNobel to boost production of microspheres
With an investment of €30 million, AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) is boosting capacity in Sweden for its Expancel expandable microspheres in order to meet growing global demand. Used as a blowing agent or lightweight filler, the Expancel product line…
Ineos membrane technology for Olin
Ineos Technologies (Runcorn, U.K.; www.ineos.com) has announced that its Bichlor membrane chlorine technology has been selected by Olin Corp. for the conversion of its Charleston, Tenn. site. In addition Ineos Technologies will supply Olin Corp. with a complete process design…
Axens and Shaw selected to license ‘next-generation’ FCC technology
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) and the Shaw Group Inc. (Baton Rouge, La.; www.shawgrp.com) have been selected to license a next-generation catalytic cracking technology that will help refiners maximize the production of propylene and other high-value refinery products. The advanced technology, High…
Air Products collaborates with Tianjin University on advanced chemical-engineering sciences
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has initiated its third joint research and development (R&D) project with the State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering of Tianjin University (China; www.tju.edu.cn/english) on advanced chemical-engineering sciences. This project, which focuses on distillation and…
Air Liquide: New ASU for Russian steel plant
The Air Liquide Group (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed long-term agreement with Severstal, Russia’s leading steel producer. Air Liquide will supply oxygen, nitrogen and argon to Severstal’s new steel plant in Balakovo, located in the region of Saratov (Volga Federal…
Outotec acquires Vertical Pressure Filter technology
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has acquired the Vertical Pressure Filter (VPF) technology and its intellectual property rights from Australian Process Technology Pty Ltd (North Fremantle, Australia), a filters supplier for the alumina refining industry. The parties have agreed not…
Bechtel and SolFocus deliver renewable power for California agribusiness
Bechtel (Frederick, Md.; www.bechtel.com), SolFocus, Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.; www.solfocus.com) and developer Sol Orchard announced today that a 1-MW high concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) power plant was completed for Nichols Farms, a pistachio farm in Hanford, Calif. The solar plant, which…
A lower-energy approach to natural gas ‘sweetening’
A new method for removing hydrogen sulfide from natural gas at ambient temperatures could allow significant energy savings compared to the current technique and increase the range of H2S concentrations in natural gas that are economically viable to extract from…