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Commissioning of a new O2 production unit in Italy
Air Liquide (Paris; www.airliquide.com) announces the commissioning of a new high-pressure and high-purity gaseous oxygen production unit in Italy. It was installed in Castelnuovo del Garda, near Verona, where Air Liquide already operates another air separation unit. With a production…
Construction starts on new He plant in U.S.
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) and Matheson (www.mathesongas.com), a member of the Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. (TNSC) group, today announced that onsite construction has commenced on a new, jointly-owned liquid helium production plant near Big Piney,…
Fluor to design two solar power plants in Spain
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced today that Elecnor S.A. (Madrid, Spain; www.elecnor.es) has awarded the company an engineering services contract for two new 50-MW concentrating solar power (CSP) plants in Alcazar de San Juan, Spain. Fluor booked the undisclosed…
Toyo & LG Group form ‘green’ JV
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has established a joint venture (JV) with LG Group (Seoul, South Korea; www.lgcorp.com) through Toyo Engineering Korea Ltd. and Serveone Co., both of which are 100% subsidiaries of their respective parent companies. The…
DSM and Brain to develop water-soluble vitamins
DSM Nutritional Products GmbH (Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany; www.dsmnutritionalproducts.com), a subsidiary of the Dutch company Royal DSM N.V. (www.dsm.com) Brain AG (Zwingenberg, Germany; www.brain-biotech.de) have announced a strategic cooperation in the biotechnological production of water-soluble vitamins. Benefiting from the long-term experience of…
Ecopetrol starts up the HDT Complex Project
Ecopetrol S.A. (Bogotá, Columbia; www.ecopetrol.com.co) has successfully started-up two new units for the production of Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (Prime-D) and Ultra Low Sulfur Gasoline (Prime-G+), as part of its Hydrotreating Project (HDT) at its Barrancabermeja Refinery, located in the…
Ineos Technologies wins the first Innovene S PE technology license for the Russian market
Ineos Technologies (Lyndhurst, U.K.; www.ineos.com) has licensed its Innovene S Process for the manufacture of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) to the JSC Angarsk Polymer Plant of ROSNEFT in Angarsk, Russia. The 345,000 metric ton per year…
Solvay to expand compounding capacity in Chine
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has decided to build a specialty polymers compounding plant at its site in Changshu in the province of Jiangsu, China. Start-up of the plant is expected in the last quarter of 2012. The plant will satisfy the…
Metso to automate the world’s first ocean-surge-based demo power plant
Metso (Helsinki; www.metso.com) will develop and supply an automation system to AW-Energy Ltd.’s (Vantaa, Finland; www.aw-energy.com) demo power plant, the first one in the world to generate electricity from the surge, a form of ocean energy. AW-Energy will expand its…
Chiyoda awarded EPC contract for polycrystalline silicon plant in Malaysia
Chiyoda Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.chiyoda-corp.com/en) today announces that Tokuyama Corp. (Tokyo; www.tokuyama.co.jp) group has awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for a polycrystalline silicon plant in Malaysia to Chiyoda in collaboration with Chiyoda Sarawak Sdn. Bhd. (Sarawak, Malaysia)…