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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Fluorite, the natural mineral of calcium fluoride, is a key feedstock for making fluorochemicals. In Japan, however, the cost and availability of fluorite has become problematic due to recent restrictions on its import from China. To alleviate the problem, Organo…
A microbial process originally designed to remediate soils contaminated with hydrocarbons has accelerated the recovery of bitumen from oil sands fivefold in bench-scale tests conducted at Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL, South Carolina; srnl.doe.gov). The heart of the process is…