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Outotec acquires Demil Manutenção Industrial in Brazil  

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed to acquire all shares in Demil Manutenção Industrial Ltda. (Guarapari, Espírito Santo, Brazil) from Marcos Del Pupo and his children. Demil provides industrial maintenance services for iron-ore pelletizing plants and is located in.…

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Solazyme and Dow to accelerate commercialization of bio-based dielectric insulating fluids  

Solazyme, Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.; www.solazyme.com) and The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) have entered into a contingent offtake agreement in which Dow has agreed to purchase from Solazyme all of its requirements of non-vegetable microbe-based oils for…

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B&W to proceed with waste-to-energy plant in Florida  

The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) says that its subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG) has received full notice to proceed (FNTP) for the engineering, design, procurement and construction of a waste-to-energy power…

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Uhde supplies chlor-alkali electrolysis technology to AkzoNobel  

At the Frankfurt-Höchst, (Germany) industrial estate, AkzoNobel is converting an amalgam electrolysis plant to the modern membrane process and has commissioned ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) to design and supply the energy-saving Uhde membrane cells. This extensive conversion project…

Chevron Phillips Chemical selects site for new polyethylene facilities and executes FEED contracts for cracker and derivatives

Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LP (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cpchem.com) announced yesterday that the two polyethylene facilities planned as part of the company’s U.S. Gulf Coast (USGC) Petrochemicals Project, would be located on a site nearby the Chevron Phillips Chemical Sweeny…

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UOP technology selected by Sinochem to produce high-purity hydrogen  

UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, says that it has been selected by Sinochem to provide technology to purify hydrogen at a new petroleum refinery in China. Sinochem Quanzhou Petrochemical Co. — a fully owned subsidiary of…

Global CPRI flat in March; U.S. CPRI up slightly, ACC says

Data from March indicate that the global chemical production regional index (CPRI) was flat after three consecutive monthly gains, while the U.S. CPRI was up slightly in March, according to the latest edition of the Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report…

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Foster Wheeler awarded PMC contract for aromatics complex in Abu Dhabi  

Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by Abu Dhabi National Chemicals Company (ChemaWEyaat) for the provision of project management consultancy (PMC) services for an…

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Outotec provides flotation technology for Kennecott Utah Copper concentrator  

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with Kennecott Utah Copper to supply 30 TankCell e300 flotation cells, with an option for an additional ten cells for retrofit of the company's Copperton Concentrator. The contract was booked in Outotec's…

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UOP to provide technology for propylene production in China  

UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, has been selected to provide key technology to produce propylene in China. Zhangjiagang Yangzi River Petrochemical Co. (Zhangjiagang City, Jiangsu Province, China) will use UOP’s C3 Oleflex process technology to convert…