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OCP licenses Shell Thiogro technology
OCP (www.ocpgroup.ma) and Shell (www.shell.com) are pleased to announce that they have signed a key strategic agreement regarding the license of Shell Thiogro technology. The Shell Thiogro technology (www.chemengonline.com/joint-effort-enable-production-sulfur-enhanced-urea-large-scale) will enable OCP to produce highly concentrated sulfur-enhanced fertilizers, helping end-users…
U.S. specialty chemicals market notches 2nd consecutive monthly gain, ACC says
The American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.chemengonline.com) reported that U.S. specialty chemicals market volumes rose 0.3 percent in August. This follows a 0.4 percent gain in July and a 0.3 percent decline in June. All changes in the data…
Amec Foster Wheeler wins contract for biomass fired CFB boiler
Amec Foster Wheeler (London, U.K.; www.amecfw.com) has been awarded a contract and received notice to proceed by Tecnicas Reunidas SA and Samsung C&T EC UK to design and supply a circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) steam generator for the Tees Renewable Energy…
Technip awarded EPC contract for ENOC refinery expansion
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded the Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for the design and construction of new processing units and ancillary units from the Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC). ENOC revealed plans to expand the capacity of…
Linde and Petronas to build industrial gas facility at Malaysian refinery complex
Linde Malaysia Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) announced that it has established a joint venture (JV) company with PETRONAS Gas Berhad (PGB) to build a state-of-the-art industrial air gas facility that will produce gaseous…
Solvay divests two business lines to Italmatch
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has sold its Ionquest 290 solvent extraction product line used in mining applications and its octylphosphonic acid (OPA) product lines to Italmatch Chemicals. With this sale Solvay satisfies all remaining obligations set forth by the…
TPC Group sells Baytown chemicals plant
TPC Group Inc. (Houston; www.tpcgrp.com) has reached an agreement to sell its Baytown Operations to SI Group (Schenectady, N.Y.; www.siigroup.com). The operations include manufacturing assets for nonene, tetramer, and other propylene derivatives, an on-site terminal and excess land adjacent to…
Chandra Asri selects Unipol process technology for new PE plant
PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk (CAP; Jakarta, Indonesia; www.chandra-asri.com) has signed an agreement with Univation Technologies LLC (Houston; www.univation.com) for the license of the UNIPOL PE polyethylene process technology to be applied at a new polyethylene plant at CAP’s integrated…
Invista’s Engineering Polymer Solutions business acquired by Radici Group
Radici Group Performance Plastics (Gandino, Italy; www.radicigroup.com/plastics) signed an agreement for the purchase of the Engineering Polymer Solutions business of Invista (Wichita, Kansas; www.invista.com). With this acquisition, RadiciGroup – a producer of nylon, PBT, TPE and POM engineering plastics –…
Shell starts new aromatics unit at Pernis petroleum refinery
Shell Nederland Raffinaderij B.V. (Pernis, the Netherlands; www.shell.com) formally marked the start-up of a new aromatics unit at the large Pernis petroleum refinery in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Lori Ryerkerk, executive vice president for Shell’s global Manufacturing business says, “Construction of…