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Invista begins work for world-scale adiponitrile plant in China

INVISTA (Wichita, Kan.; www.invista.com) has begun work to bring its latest adiponitrile (ADN) technology to China to satisfy the strong, local demand for the nylon 6,6 intermediate chemical. Engineering for a new plant with a minimum production capacity of 300,000…

Lanxess plans to sell remaining 50% stake in Arlanxeo to Saudi Aramco

Specialty chemicals group Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) plans to sell its remaining 50% stake in Arlanxeo (Maastricht, the Netherlands; www.arlanexeo.com) to its joint-venture (JV) partner Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.saudiaramco.com). The two companies, which founded Arlanxeo in 2016…

Nuberg EPC awarded contract for chlor-alkali and CaCl2 project in Saudi Arabia

Nuberg EPC (New Delhi, India; www.nuberg.in) has been awarded a $53 million turnkey project contract by Middle East Chemicals Company Ltd. (Midchem; Saudi Arabia). The exclusive agreement covers EPC & LSTK services and solutions for a chlor-alkali plant and a…

Topsoe lands contract for two ammonia plants in India

TechnipFMC has awarded Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) a contract for license and basic engineering for two gas-based ammonia plants for Hindustan Urvarak and Rasayan Ltd. (HURL). The two fertilizer complexes in Sindri and Barauni will each comprise 2,200…

Sener and Acciona start salt-melting process at CCSP Kathu Solar Park

The engineering and technology group Sener S.A. (Las Arenas, Spain; www.engineeringandconstruction.sener) and Acciona Industrial S.A. (Madrid, Spain; www.acciona.com) have achieved another relevant milestone initiating the salt-melting process at the Kathu Solar Park Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant. The molten salt…

Hubei Sanning to use Honeywell hydrogen technology to produce plastics from coal

Honeywell says that Hubei Sanning Chemical Industry Co. will use Honeywell UOP’s (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) Polybed pressure-swing adsorption (PSA) technology to supply high-quality hydrogen at its monoethylene glycol (MEG) plant at Zhijiang in China’s Hubei Province. The Hubei Sanning…

Aveva partners with Virsec to strengthen defence against targeted cyberattacks

Aveva Plc (Cambridge, U.K.; www.aveva.com) has signed a partnership agreement with Virsec (San Jose, Calif.; www.virsec.com), whereby Aveva customers gain access to in-memory cyber protection for Industrial Control (ICS) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. Virsec’s patented technology…

Pöyry awarded EPCM services assignment for biogas plant expansion in Finland

Gasum Oy (Espoo, Finland; www.gasum.com) has awarded Pöyry Oyj. (www.poyry.com) with the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services assignment for Topinoja biogas plant expansion project in Turku, Finland. The work will be carried out between May 2018 and June…

KBR awarded FEED, EPCM-option contract for Methanex’s potential Geismar 3 Methanol Project

KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a reimbursable engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract by Methanex Corp. for providing front-end engineering design (FEED) services for a 5,000 metric ton per day world-scale methanol plant to be located adjacent…

Jizzakh Petroleum to build new refinery in Uzbekistan

Honeywell announced today that Jizzakh Petroleum JV LLC will use Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) technologies to build a new petroleum refinery capable of processing 5 million ton/yr of crude oil to produce clean-burning gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.…