Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is strengthening its commitment to produce premium synthetic rubbers from bio-based raw materials. The German specialty chemicals company aims to commercially produce ethylene-propylene-diene monomer (EPDM) from bio-based ethylene by the end of the year. It…
Process Systems Enterprise (PSE; London, U.K.; www.psenterprise.com), providers of the gPROMS high-fidelity process modeling environment and related ModelCare services, today announced the release of its new gCRYSTAL product. gCRYSTAL provides an integrated, easy-to-use, drag and drop graphical environment for model-based…
The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) announced today that its subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox Canada Ltd. (B&W Canada) has been awarded a contract to supply four modularized boilers for the Kearl Oil Sands Project (Kearl) being developed by…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com), within the framework of a cooperation partnership with Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com), was awarded a contract for providing basic and front end engineering services on a Petrobras grassroots fertilizer complex to be located at…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is building a new plant for manufacturing catalysts for biodiesel production in Argentina. In an official ceremony held on September 15, 2011. The detail engineering of the facility is already complete. The plant, which…
Petron Corp. (www.petron.com), the largest oil refining and marketing company in the Philippines, selected Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) to supply technologies for its Bataan Refinery Upgrading (RMP-2 Project). The project aims heavier crudes processing for higher quality products and propylene…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by Gabon Fertilizers Co. a strategic engineering contract for a world-class grassroots ammonia-urea fertilizer project to be developed at Port Gentil, Gabon. The proposed project includes a 2,200 metric ton (m.t.) per day ammonia…
BASF Corp. (Iselin, N.J.; www.basf.com) today announced that its affiliate, BASF Canada Inc., has joined Quantiam Technologies Inc. (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; www.quantiam.com), as co-shareholders in a newly formed corporation named BASF Qtech Inc. This start-up business will be run as…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with NLMK Novolipetsk Metallurgisk Kombinat on the delivery of a large-scale iron ore pelletizing plant in Stary Oskol, 600 km south of Moscow. NLMK Novolipetsk belongs to the NLMK Group, one of largest…
Sartorius Stedim Biotech (Aubagne, France; www.sartorius-stedim.com) has entered into a patent cross-licensing agreement with GE Healthcare Life Sciences (Chalfont St. Giles, U.K.; www.gehealthcare.com). This will enable the further development of each company’s current and future biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies. “Signing this…