Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been awarded a contract from Cuvenpeq S.A. — a petrochemical and fertilizer joint venture between the Cuban government and Pequiven S.A from Venezuela — for a urea production and granulation plant in…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is today officially starting work on construction of its first production facility in Russia. In the future, Lanxess subsidiary Rhein Chemie will produce rubber chemicals in Dzerzhinsk in the Nizhny Novgorod region for the markets…
GTC Technology US, LLC (Houston; www.gtctech.com) was selected by Holly Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.hollycorp.com) and two subsidiaries to provide process design engineering and its licensed GT-BenZap technology for benzene management and reduction. The licensed technology will support Holly’s efforts for…
Messer Group GmbH (Sulzbach/Frankfurt, Germany; www.messergroup.com) has commissioned a new CO2 liquefaction plant with a production capacity of 150,000 ton/yr of carbon dioxide on the site of the British company Ineos Oxide in Zwijndrecht near Antwerp, Belgium. The Messer Group…
EdeniQ, Inc. (Visalia, Calif,; www.edeniq.com) and Logos Technologies, Inc. (Arlington, Va.; www.logos-technologies.com) announced today the signing of a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE; Washington, D.C.; www.energy.gov) to receive up to $20.5 million in federal cost share under…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with the First Quantum Minerals Limited Projects Office (Perth, Australia) for the delivery of flotation, thickening and automation technologies for several of their operations around the world. The total value of the contracts exceeds…
Lonza Group Ltd. (Basel, Switzerland; www.lonzagroup.com) has selected Nansha, its leading high-tech life-science site in China, as location for its new vitamin B3 manufacturing site. The investment, which was approved by the board of directors of Lonza Group Ltd, will help…
The Buhler Group (Uzwil, Switzerland; www.buhlergroup.com) and Sigma-Aldrich (www.sigma-aldrich.com) have signed an agreement in which research volumes of nanoparticle dispersions from Buhler will be sold worldwide exclusively by Sigma-Aldrich. These products are dispersions of nanoscale inorganic particles in water and organic…
Sinopec-SABIC (Tianjin) Petrochemical Co., Ltd (SSTPC), a joint venture between Sinopec and SABIC, relies on Meteor (Most Effective Technology for Ethylene Oxide Reaction) Process from The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow; Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) to produce ethylene oxide (EO) / ethylene…
ExxonMobil Chemical Technology Licensing LLC (EMCTL) and ExxonMobil Catalyst Technologies LLC (EMCT; www.exxonmobilchemical.com) today announced that Suphon Tubtimcharoon, managing director of Thai Paraxylene Company Ltd. (TPX; www.thaioil.co.th/product/petrochemical_en.php), and Gary T. Schmidt, vice president of EMCTL and President of EMCT, signed…