SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Fujian Energy and Petrochemical Group Co. Ltd. (Fujian Energy Petrochemical) held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of full execution and construction phase of SABIC Fujian Petrochemical Complex (Sino-Saudi Gulei Ethylene Complex Project) in…
ABB, Inc. (Zurich, Switzerland) announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire SEAM Group, a major provider of energized asset management and advisory services to clients across industrial and commercial building markets. The acquisition will complement ABB’s Electrification…
QatarEnergy announced that an official groundbreaking ceremony kicked off construction of the Ras Laffan Petrochemical Complex, one of the largest manufacturing complexes in the world. The complex will house an ethane cracker with a capacity of 2.1 million tons per…
GEA Group (Düsseldorf, Germany) announced that it is supplying two heat pumps to help the city of Lemgo on its way to achieving climate neutrality by 2035. The GEA technology will generate heat from the effluent of the city's wastewater…
Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) announced an investment of over €50 million to build a new innovative plant in Singapore and revamp its existing facilities in Malta, New York, supplying high-purity nitrogen to GlobalFoundries (GF). These Air Liquide projects will enable…
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced an integrated technology award from Bayegan. Bayegan will license Lummus' CATOFIN technology for a new 450,000-ton/yr propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit and Lummus' Novolen technology for a new 450,000-ton/yr polypropylene (PP) unit. The units will be located…
Heidelberg Materials North America announced a significant milestone in its two-stage competitive procurement process as it works to select the capture technology and contractor for providing the CO2 separation solution for its Edmonton, Alberta, Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS)…
The Surface Treatment global business unit of BASF’s Coatings division, operating under the Chemetall brand, celebrated the opening of its new Global Aluminum Competence Center in Giussano, Italy. The state-of-the-art facility will strengthen Chemetall’s position as a global supplier of…
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) announced that its designed ebullated-bed residue hydrocracking (H-Oil) unit and distillates hydrocracking (HyKTM) unit and Naphtha Hydrotreating (NHT) unit were successfully started at Shenghong Refining & Chemical (Lianyungang) Co. Ltd.’s crude to para-xylene complex in China’s province…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced that H2 Green Steel has selected Fluor to provide engineering, procurement and construction management services at the world's first renewable hydrogen-based integrated ‘green steel’ mill in Boden, Sweden. Fluor’s scope includes a melt shop, casting,…