Global Bioenergies (Evry, France; www.global-bioenergies.com) announced that its demo plant, located at the Leuna refinery site, has successfully operated its entire technical process: fermentation, purification, and filling station. The first bottle containing renewable isobutene has been filled. The construction of…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will concentrate the production of paper coating dispersions in Europe at two sites, the Ludwigshafen Verbund site and the Hamina site in Finland. The goal is to strengthen BASF’s ability to compete in the challenging…
Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.; www.trinseo.com) announced the opening of its new Research and Development (R&D) site in the city of Terneuzen, The Netherlands as part of its large investment into the company’s future. By modernizing two existing technical support center and…
China’s largest acrylic producer, Zhejiang Satellite Energy Co., Ltd, recently selected Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) to provide a reactor effluent compressor train for Phase II of its propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant in Pinghu City in China’s Zhejian province. The…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced that its joint venture (JV) team was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for BHP’s Spence Growth Option project at the Spence open-cut copper mine in northern Chile. The 50/50 joint venture…
Pöyry Oyj (Vantaa, Finland; www.poyry.com) has been awarded an assignment from KaiCell Fibers Ltd for the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of the company's biorefinery planned for Paltamo, Kainuu province in North East Finland. The scope of the assignment covers the…
Cargill, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minn.; www.cargill.com) has announced plans to build a state-of-the-art $90-million biodiesel plant in Wichita, Kansas. Set to open January 2019, it will produce 60 million gallons of biodiesel annually. “This new facility will enable Wichita to be…
The Specialty Chemicals Market Volume Index showed a pronounced slowdown in August, reflecting the effects of Hurricane Harvey, according to the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). Growth in U.S. specialty chemicals market volumes expanded only 0.1 percent in…
ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) announced the acquisition of GE Industrial Solutions, GE’s global electrification solutions business. GE Industrial Solutions has customers in more than 100 countries and an established installed base with strong roots in North America, ABB’s biggest market.…
The technology group Wärtsilä Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.wartsila.com) is to supply the generating equipment to provide the electrical power for an extension to a major Pakistani cement manufacturing facility. Cherat Cement Ltd. has contracted Wärtsilä to supply three Wärtsilä 34DF…