Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS; Yokohama Japan; www.mpshq.com), received an order from Hidroelectrica del Cantabrico, S.A., the Spanish power producer of EDP (Energia de Portugal) group, for two sets of selective catalytic reduction (SCR) type DeNOx systems for installation at…
KBR Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) for the debottlenecking and expansion of its Petrokemya Butadiene Extraction Plant in Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia. Arabian Petrochemical Co. (Petrokemya), a…
Solazyme, Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.; www.solazyme.com) and Versalis, the chemical subsidiary of Eni s.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.eni.com) have announced a partnership to expand the commercial use of Encapso, what is said to be the world’s first commercially-available, biodegradable encapsulated…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) says it will further expand liquid and gaseous nitrogen supply and storage at the company’s Kirtland, New Mexico, industrial gases facilities over the next two years. The expansion will more than triple its current capacity…
AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has started operations at its new powder coatings plant in Dubai. The facility will significantly increase capacity for the company's Interpon and Resicoat products. The state-of-the art site is AkzoNobel's sixth manufacturing plant in…
AkzoNobel N.V. (www.akzonobel.com)has started operations at its new Powder Coatings plant in Dubai. The facility will significantly increase capacity for the company’s Interpon and Resicoat products. The state-of-the art site is AkzoNobel’s sixth manufacturing plant in the Middle East and…
Airgas, Inc. (Radnor, Pa.; www.airgas.com) has announced plans to build a liquid hydrogen plant in Calvert City, Kentucky. The new facility is targeted to be onstream in the summer of 2016 with the capacity to produce 10 tons per day…
Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LP (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cpchem.com) has announced a study to expand its low-viscosity polyalphaolefins (PAO) capacity by 10,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of capacity at its Cedar Bayou plant in Baytown, Texas. Currently, its low…
Momentive Performance Materials Inc. (Waterford, N.Y.; www.momentive.com) has commissioned two new expansions at its Rayong, Thailand manufacturing facility to serve the growing Asian market demand for specialty chemicals. Commissioning took place as part of part of the 10th anniversary celebration…
KBR Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has signed an agreement with Chiyoda Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.chiyoda-corp.com/en), a leading engineering and construction firm in Japan, to license its CT-Acetica technology. Chiyoda developed the CT-Acetica process, a methanol-carbonylation process that uses methanol and carbon…