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Topsøe lands another SNG-plant contract in China
The new coal-to-SNG plant for the Yinan Substitute Natural Gas (SNG) Project will convert locally mined sub-bituminous coal into SNG with the aim of reducing imports of natural gas for power and heat generation. In its first stage of completion,…
Outotec and Zambia’s Kansanshi Mining sign sulfuric acid technology deal
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…
Petronas and BASF move ahead with expansion of partnership in Malaysia
Petronas (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; www.petronas.com.my) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) have taken the next steps in the development of the previously announced €1-billion investment that will expand their partnership in Malaysia, involving projects at their existing venture in Kuantan…
Wacker expands polymer site in China
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is expanding its Chinese polymer activities by investing around €40 million in building two new production facilities at its Nanjing site. Wacker is expanding the site’s existing facilities for vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions…
Freudenberg Filtration Technologies in India acquires Pyramid Filters
Freudenberg Filtration Technologies India Pvt. Ltd (Pune, India) has signed an agreement to acquire the business of Pyramid Filters Pvt. Ltd., with effect from 1st April, 2012. Freudenberg Filtration Technologies India provides high-efficient industrial and automotive filter elements and systems,…
Hamworthy lands breakthrough liquefaction contract for biogas plant
Hamworthy Oil & Gas Systems (Poole, Dorset, U.K.; www.hamworthy.com) has secured its first contract for a biogas liquefaction plant with Norwegian company Cambi AS, a specialist in biowaste treatment. The biogas plant will treat 50,000 tons of food waste a…
SGL Group opens new production facility in India
SGL Group — The Carbon Company (Wiesbaden Germany; www.sglcarbon.com) has further expanded its production in Pune, India, gaining a larger footprint in the Indian growth market. At the new production facility, the manufacture of graphite-based system components (heat exchangers and…
Stamicarbon urea technology licensed to Shahjalal in Bangladesh
Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, the Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the licensing and IP Center of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (www.mairetecnimont.it), has signed license and process-design and services agreements with China Chengda Engineering Company (CHENGDA) and China National Plant Import & Export Corp. (ComPlant), for…
Successful commissioning of a polyamide 6.6 plant at Huafon Group in Ruian, China
The engineering company Uhde Inventa-Fischer (Berlin, Germany and Domat/Ems, Switzerland; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) has successfully commissioned a plant for the production of polyamide 6.6 for its Chinese customer Huafon Group. The production plant has an annual capacity of 40,000 metric tons and…
WorleyParsons awarded Evonik contract
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has awarded WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) a contract for the detailed engineering, procurement support and construction management on the building of world-scale plants for the production of isophorone and isophorone diamine. The…