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Oxea to build new amines plant in China

Oxea GmbH (Oberhausen, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com) and the Chinese listed Chengxing Group signed an agreement with the Changzhou Municipal Government for the approval of a land grant in the Changzhou Yangtze River Chemical Industrial Park in order to build a plant…

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A top pharmaceutical firm signs up for Astech’s Reacts

Astech Projects (Runcorn, U.K.; www.astechprojects.co.uk) has announced the success of its new automation maintenance service, known as Reacts (Rapid, Effective And Complete Technical Support). This new service is quickly going from strength to strength and as such, Astech is pleased…

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Topsøe wins contract for a large methanol plant

Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) has signed a contract with ZAO East Siberian Gas Processing Company covering license and basic engineering design for a natural gas based processing plant: The plant has a production capacity of 450,000 metric tons…

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Foster Wheeler wins contract for chemicals project

Foster Wheeler Ltd. (Hamilton, Bermuda; www.fwc.com) announced that its South African subsidiary, Foster Wheeler South Africa (Pty) Ltd., part of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by Senmin International (Pty)…

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DSM doubles Stanyl capacity with opening of new plant in Geleen

Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, Netherlands; www.dsm.com) today announces that the second polymerization plant for Stanyl polyamide 46 on the Chemelot site in Geleen, Netherlands,  has opened. The new plant doubles DSM’s worldwide production capacity for this high-performance plastic, supporting expected…

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Lanxess to expand caprolactam production in Antwerp

Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is to expand its site in Antwerp with capital expenditures amounting to some 35-million euros. The plan is to raise the capacity of the caprolactam production plant in the port of Antwerp by 10% by…

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Repsol to expand petrochemical complex in Sines

Today, Repsol's (Madrid, Spain; www.repsolypf.com) CEO, Antonio Brufau, Portugal’s Prime Minister, and Minister of Economy José Socrates and Manuel Pinho, have announced the initiation of the Sines Petrochemical Complex expansion project. This important project is one of company's main worldwide…

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Outotec to deliver iron-ore sinter plant to India

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has won an order from Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) for the design and delivery of an iron-ore sinter plant for SAIL’s Rourkela Steel Plant in Orissa. Outotec will implement the turnkey plant project…

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Chementator: Solid-state cooling?  

Conventional cooling systems rely on the properties of gases to cool, but common coolants are either harmful to people or the environment. A different approach is being investigated by researchers at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Penn State University (University…

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Chementator: A new F-T catalyst  

A new metal carbide F-T catalyst has been developed by Oxford Catalysts Limited (Oxford, U.K., www.oxfordcatalysts.com) for making second-generation biofuel in small-scale microchannel reactors. The catalyst was produced using the company’s patented organic matrix combustion method, which makes it possible…