Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) has signed an agreement with Lurgi GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany; www.lurgi.com), for the technology licensing and engineering that will allow SABIC to produce oleo-chemicals at its affiliate, Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Co., following…
Eka Chemicals AB (Bohus, Sweden; www.akzonobel.com/eka) has agreed to divest its water treatment chemicals production activities located in Vetlanda, Sweden, to Feralco Nordic AB (www.feralco.com). The polyaluminium chloride products produced at this site are used for a number of flocculation…
Emerson Process Management’s (Baar, Switzerland; www.emersonprocess.com) DeltaV digital automation system has been selected by Perstorp, the speciality chemicals group for the control system upgrade at its pentaerythritol processing plant in Perstorp, Sweden. The existing distributed control system will be replaced…
The GEA Group (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has received a large order over €20 million from a renown EPC contractor active in the Middle East for a Heller dry cooling system. GEA's installation will cool a new gas fired combined cycle…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) has successfully started up a new 320,000-ton/yr Hostalen Advanced Cascade Process (ACP) high density polyethylene (HDPE) plant at Münchsmünster, Germany. The Münchsmünster HDPE plant enhances LyondellBasell’s flexibility to supply advanced HDPE grades to customers in…
KBR Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded two contracts by the Republic of Iraq Ministry of Oil through the South Refineries Company. KBR will provide licensing and basic engineering services for the construction of fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) and solvent…
Haldor Topsoe Inc. (Houston; www.topsoe.com) and CoaLogix Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.; www.coalogix.com) have developed a closer collaboration since 2009, which has now been executed into a signed agreement to provide additional value in connection with SCR catalyst supply to the power-generation…
Two Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies (VWS; Saint Maurice, France; www.veoliawaterst.com) companies — N.A. Water Systems (www.nawatersystems.com) and OTV (www.otv.fr) — have been awarded a contract to design and build a 24,000 m3/d (6.34-million gal/d) desalination facility on the island…
SGL Group (Wiesbaden, Germany; www.sglcarbon.com) will invest within the next three years approximately €75 million into the capacity expansion of isostatic graphite to support the global growth of its customers in the solar energy, light emitting diodes (LED) and semiconductor industries.…
SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded an engineering and procurement (EP) contract by Grizzly Oil Sands ULC for its new Algar Lake Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) facility located near Fort McMurray in north-eastern Alberta. The project…