Honeywell (Morris Plains, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) announced that Compañía Española de Petróleos S.A.U. (Cepsa; Madrid, Spain; www.cepsa.com) will convert an alkylation unit using hydrofluoric acid (HF) to Honeywell UOP’s solid-bed Detal-Plus technology at its refinery in San Roque, Spain. The unit…
The board of directors of Milliken & Company’s (Spartanburg, S.C.; www.milliken.com) announced the appointment of Halsey M. Cook Jr. as president and CEO effective September 1, 2018. J. Harold Chandler will return to his role as chair of the board of…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) was awarded a contract from Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.; www.eastman.com) to provide capital construction, maintenance and turnaround services at its facilities in Longview, Texas, and Kingsport, Tennessee. This contract represents additional maintenance…
Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) has delivered the catalyst for a new regenerative catalytic oxidizer at the Sinopec Qilu styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) plant in Zibo – the biggest rubber producer in China and part of Sinopec Group, the world’s…
Tanaka Holdings Co. (Tokyo; www.pro.tanaka.co.jp) announced that Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K., which operates Tanaka’s Precious Metals manufacturing business, established a new Fuel Cell (FC) Catalysts Development Center in Kanagawa Prefecture to develop and manufacture electrode catalysts to be used in…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is investigating the possibility of building a highly-integrated “Verbund” chemical production site in the South Chinese province of Guangdong. Martin Brudermüller, BASF’s Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, and Lin Shaochun, Executive Vice Governor…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that Indonesian company PT Chandra Asri Perkasa Tbk (CAP), has selected LyondellBasell’s polypropylene (PP) and low-density polyethylene (LDPE) technologies for two new plants. The plants will be constructed in its second petrochemical complex in…
HollyFrontier Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.hollyfrontier.com) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Red Giant Oil Co. Red Giant Oil, a private family-owned lubricants company founded in 1903, is one of the largest suppliers of locomotive engine…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed several new multi-year contracts worth a total of more than €50 million, and started supplying xenon and krypton since the beginning of 2018 to the semiconductor and the satellite industries in three regions:…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announced a €48-million investment in the modernization of the gas cogeneration unit in its soda ash & bicarbonate plant based in Bernburg, Germany. This investment secures the longterm position of the site and increases its…