The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; Washington, D.C.; www.epa.gov) is cutting emissions from gold ore processing and production facilities with a new standard that will reduce annual mercury emissions by more than 75% from 2007 levels. This action is one…
Styron (www.styron.com) today announced that the company will expand its SSBR (solution styrene butadiene rubber) capacity with a new production line at Styron’s production facility in Schkopau, Germany. The additional capacity of 50,000 metric tons (m.t.) will allow Styron to…
Following the successful operation of a biomass-to-liquids (BTL) demonstration plant at the biomass gasification facility in Güssing, Austria, the Oxford Catalysts Group's (U.K.; www.oxfordcatalysts.com) F-T (Fischer-Tropsch) microchannel reactor technology is now moving towards a full pilot plant phase. The Oxford…
Oxea GmbH (Oberhausen, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com) has successfully completed the first phase of a three-stage capacity increase at its multi-purpose carboxylic acid production units in Oberhausen, adding 5% to its global carboxylic acid capacity. Upon completion of the entire project scheduled…
Blast furnace 2 at the ThyssenKrupp CSA steel mill in Santa Cruz/Rio de Janeiro state was fired up on schedule and without problems on Thursday evening, December 16, 2010 – five months after blast furnace 1, which is now producing…
JGC Corp. (Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) today announced that it will be selling its 44.94% share interest in M.W. Kellogg Ltd. (MWKL; Greenford, Middlesex, U.K.; www.mwkl.co.uk) to KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com). MWKL is an affiliate of both companies. Following the transaction, MWKL will become…
Medicine Bow Fuel & Power LLC has awarded Aker Solutions (www.akersolutions.com) the front-end engineering and design (FEED) package for its Medicine Bow Industrial Gasification & Liquefaction Plant located near the town of Medicine Bow, Wyoming. Aker Solutions successfully completed a…
Haldor Topsøe S/A (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) has entered into an agreement with BASF’s Catalysts division on the marketing of Topsøe’s line of tail gas treatment catalysts for sulfur recovery units. Tail-gas treatment catalysts are used to remove sulfur compounds as…
On the eve of the 10th anniversary of BASF-YPC, BASF and Sinopec have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly explore the further expansion of their integrated petrochemical joint venture, BASF-YPC Co. The new projects under consideration will extend the…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) plans to expand its existing superabsorbent polymer production capacities at its Antwerp, Belgium and Freeport, U.S. sites. Gradual debottlenecking and technical expansion measures are to raise annual capacity by 70,000 metric tons (m.t.) to a…