Velocys plc (Plain City, Ohio; www.velocys.com) has announced the successful completion of gas-to-liquids (GTL) pilot-plant tests that demonstrate significant process intensification, increasing capacity and productivity and improving commercial plant economics. The tests demonstrate that continuous improvements over the last 18…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is expanding the compounding capacities for engineering plastics in Europe. Presumably from 2017 it will be possible to additionally produce up to 70,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of Ultramid (PA: polyamide) and Ultradur (PBT:…
SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded a contract by Qatargas for a water-recycling facility at its Laffan Refinery 2 plant in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar. SNC-Lavalin is providing engineering, procurement, supply, construction and commissioning services for the recycling…
JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.com), in partnership with its subsidiary JGC Indonesia, and PT. Encona Inti Industri of Indonesia, it has received an order for engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) work for the upgrading of the Cilacap Refinery, located in…
Royal DSM (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) is expanding production capacity for Akulon XS at its facility in Emmen, the Netherlands. The capacity increase is scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2016. It will meet the strong-growing demand…
ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) has won a contract from Yamama Saudi Cement Co., one of Saudi Arabia’s biggest cement producers, to build two turnkey cement clinker production lines. The two lines with an overall capacity of 20,000…
Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group (WMFTG; Cornwall, U.K.; www.wmftg.com) has acquired the business and assets of Flow Smart Inc. through its parent company Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc, for £5.7 million. Flow Smart, based in Seaford, Delaware, specializes in the design and manufacture…
Atlas Copco (Stockholm, Sweden; www.atlascopco.com) will take over the vacuum division of OC Oerlikon Corporation AG (Pfäffikon, Switzerland), with its over over 1,600 employees worldwide. The 486-million-euro transaction intention has been signed, thereby strengthening the Group’s vacuum solutions with…
Primetals Technologies Ltd. (London, U.K.; www.primetals.com) received an order for a briquetting plant for the complete recycling of dusts and sludges in Corpus Christi, Texas. Primetals Technologies and Midrex Technologies (Charlotte, N.C.; www.midrex.com) are currently building a direct reduction…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) has been awarded a lump sum contract to supply its proprietary technology, detailed engineering and procurement services for a reformer for a hydrogen plant. The plant is located near the STAR Aegean Refinery to…