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Gevo enters license agreement to build renewable isobutanol plants in Argentina
Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.; www.gevo.com) has entered into a license agreement and a joint development agreement with Porta Hnos S.A. to construct multiple isobutanol plants in Argentina using corn as a feedstock. The first plant is to be wholly owned…
Shell to divest majority stake in Malaysian refining company
Royal Dutch Shell plc (The Hague, the Netherlands; www.shell.com) has reached a conditional agreement with Malaysia Hengyuan International Limited (MHIL) for the sale of its 51% shareholding in the Shell Refining Company (SRC) in Malaysia for $66.3 million. The transaction…
Croda achieves milestone in construction of Delaware renewable-surfactants plant
With the steel work that will house the main process reactor in place at its Atlas Point manufacturing site in New Castle, Delaware, Croda International Plc (Snaith, U.K.; www.croda.com) came a step closer to completing the first plant in North…
Topsoe establishes R&D center at Dalian Institute for Chemical Physics
A newly established Topsoe R&D subsidiary — Haldor Topsoe Science & Technology (Dalian) Co. — has entered a comprehensive collaboration agreement with Dalian Institute for Chemical Physics (DICP). Under the framework of this collaboration agreement Topsoe will select and…
Air Products’ ASU project in Yulin fully onstream
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) says its four air-separation-unit (ASU) trains built for Shaanxi Future Energy Chemical Co. in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, China, have been brought fully onstream. The project, capable of producing 12,000 ton/d of oxygen…
Novasep adds synthesis and kilo lab extensions to U.S. facility
Novasep (Lyon, France; www.novasep.com) is building a new synthesis laboratory and a “kilo lab” for its U.S. facility. This extension will allow Novasep to offer both chemistry and purification services. It will enable Novasep to produce the initial kilogram-scale…
New management team to lead Lewa-Nikkiso Industrial Division
Since January 2016, a reformed management structure takes care of further economic growth at Lewa-Nikkiso Group (Leonberg, Germany; www.lewa.de) and drives forward the integration of the newly arranged Industrial Division. This division consists of the LEWA group, Geveke NV,…
Univation Technologies and Linde to cooperate on advancing PE plant and cracker integration
Univation Technologies (Houston; www.univation.com) and The Linde Group’s (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) Engineering Division have entered into a cooperation agreement aimed at providing performance and cost efficiencies for the production of polyethylene (PE) resins. The parties expect that this exclusive partnership…
Haver & Boecker founds Haver Automation
In order to give more importance to the sector Electrical Engineering and Automation and to strengthen it as independent technology, Haver & Boecker OHG (Oelde, Germany; www.haverboecker.com) has founded the company Haver Automation GmbH & Co. KG (Münster, Germany:…
Siemens to acquire simulation software supplier CD-adapco
Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) and CD-adapco (Melville, N.Y.; www.cd-adapco.com) have entered into a stock purchase agreement for the acquisition of CD-adapco by Siemens. The purchase price is $970 million. CD- adapco is a global engineering simulation company with…