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Diamond Green Diesel to expand renewable fuel capacity using Ecofining Technology
Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) today announced that the Diamond Green Diesel facility in Norco, La., will expand its annual production capacity of renewable diesel from 10,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) to 18,000 bbl/d, using Honeywell UOP’s Ecofining process…
BASF selects HPE to build supercomputer for global chemical research
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE; Palo Alto, Calif.) today announced that the companies will collaborate to develop one of the world’s largest supercomputers for industrial chemical research at BASF's Ludwigshafen headquarters this year. Based on…
Oxea builds second propanol unit at Bay City; awards contract to Jacobs
Oxea GmbH (Monheim am Rhein, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com) has started the construction of a new world-scale propanol unit at its production site at Bay City, Texas. The new unit “Propanol 2” is scheduled to come on stream in 2018. Once commissioned,…
Pöyry wins revamp contract for Synthomer dispersion plant in Germany
Synthomer’s (London, U.K.; www.synthomer.com) German branch, Synthomer Deutschland GmbH, has awarded Pöyry PLC (Vantaa, Finland; www.poyry.com) with the detail engineering services assignment for the revamp of its dispersion plant in Worms, Germany. The assignment includes detail engineering services for all…
Unipol PE process technology selected for Socar GPC plant
SOCAR GPC (www.socargpc.az), a gas-processing project of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR), has selected UNIPOL PE Technology licensed by Univation Technologies (Houston; www.univation.com) for use in its world-scale polyethylene (PE) plant to be built in Garadagh, Azerbaijan.…
Albemarle announces lithium capacity expansion at Greenbushes, Australia site
Albemarle Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.; www.albemarle.com) announced that Talison, a joint venture (JV) between Albemarle and Tianqi Lithium Corp., has approved the expansion of lithium concentrate production at its Greenbushes, Australia spodumene mine. Greenbushes is the world's largest active lithium mine.…
BASF’s divested Inorganic Specialities business relaunches as Callery
Callery, LLC (Evans City, Pa.; www.callery.com) is the name of the new standalone entity born from BASF's divestment of its Inorganic Specialties business. The divestiture was facilitated by Edgewater Capital in combination with the Callery management team. Callery is a…
Umicore takes full ownership of Korean catalyst JV
Umicore N.V. (Brussels, Belgium; www.umicore.com) announced the acquisition of the combined 50% shareholdings of Samkwang Glass Ind. Co., Ltd. and OCI Company Ltd. in the South Korean automotive catalyst joint venture (JV), Ordeg Co. Ltd. for € 82 million. Umicore – which…
Lanxess invests €100 million, primarily in its German sites
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany: www.lanxess.com) continues to target growth. During the next three years, its business unit Advanced Industrial Intermediates will be investing some €100 million in expanding production facilities for chemical intermediates. Around €40 million each will be invested…
Linde invests over €110 million in China
Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com), through its electronics gases joint venture in China, Linde LienHwa, is expanding its commitment to China and the Asia Pacific region through investments of over €110 million. The capital is being allocated for new on-site…