David Weidman, chairman and CEO of Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com), was honored at a dinner event in New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel last night. Stephanie Burns, chairman of the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI), America International Group, presented the…
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has been selected to supply air gases to chemicals producer Dahua Group on Songmu Island in Dalian, Northeast China. Linde will be investing around €70 million in the project. An agreement outlining the terms…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has signed a long-term contract with Henan Xinlianxin Fertilizer (Xinlianxin) and will build, own and operate an air separation unit (ASU) and integrated gas liquefier in Henan Province, China. The ASU will produce approximately…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by Petronas for its proposed Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (Rapid) project located in the state of Johor, Malaysia. Rapid aims at building a world-scale integrated refinery…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Vale Canada Ltd. (Vale) to design and supply a new sulfuric acid plant for its Sudbury smelter in Ontario, Canada. The acid plant contract, with an estimated value…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) strengthens its process control technologies by acquiring all shares in Numcore Ltd. (Kuopio, Finland; www.numcore.fi) — a start-up company developing and marketing innovative online process control solutions based on 3D imaging. With a strong focus…
Shipments of chemicals rose 1.0% in January, following a 0.3% decline in December, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau that were compiled and analyzed by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). In addition, ACC reported…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) and The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) have signed a strategic global engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) and construction management agreement. The agreement supports Dow’s global capital projects program, which ranges across all Dow products.…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with the Zambia-based mining company Kansanshi Mining Plc. for the design and delivery of a gas cleaning system and a sulfuric acid plant. The Zambian company operates a large copper mine…
Cobalt Technologies Mountain View, Calif.; www.cobalttech.com), announced the achievement of major progress toward commercial scale production of n-butanol by successfully demonstrating its biomass pretreatment process. Cobalt, in cooperation with Andritz Group (Graz, Austria; www.andritz.com), tested its dilute acid hydrolysis pretreatment…