Alfa Laval AB (Lund, Sweden; www.alfalaval.com) has signed an agreement to sell its commercial tubular heat exchanger business, currently part of the Greenhouse division, to the BITZER Group. The closing of the agreement is expected on May 1, 2018. The…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) and Huntsman (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.huntsman.com) jointly gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony held at the site of what will be Air Products’ new steam methane reformer (SMR) and cold box in Geismar, Louisiana. Air…
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland; www.kemira.com) has signed a multiyear agreement with Chevron North Sea Ltd. for the supply of polymers for Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (CEOR). On the back of this agreement, Kemira initiated an expansion of its polymer capacity…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced that it has been awarded a contract by Jinneng Science & Technology Co., Ltd. for the license and engineering design of a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. The unit will…
Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo; www.m-chemical.co.jp) announced that The Saudi Methacrylates Company (SAMAC), a 50-50 joint venture between MCC and Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (Sabic; Riyadh; www.sabic.com), has successfully completed performance test of its plants for the production of methyl…
SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) announced that it has, in a joint venture with JV Driver, been awarded a lumpsum engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract from INEOS Oligomers to design and build a polyalphaolefin (PAO) unit at the INEOS…
St1 Nordic Oy (Helsinki, Finland; www.st1.eu) has completed the construction of an Etanolix pilot plant at Ubon Bio Ethanol Ltd.’s (UBE) starch and ethanol plant site in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand. In the project, St1 is piloting its own technology to produce…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced it has been awarded a contract by CNOOC Ningbo Daxie Petrochemical Co., Ltd. for the license and process design engineering of a 300,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) polypropylene plant in Ningbo, China. The…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced that it has increased the supply capacity of its Gulf Coast hydrogen pipeline supply network by approximately 40 million standard cubic feet per day. The additional product supply results from Air Products’ hydrogen…
New digital capabilities have enabled a revolution in the way process equipment maintenance can be approached, but the true impact of these newfound insights depends on organizational collaboration The chemical process industries (CPI) are facing a new economic landscape with…