Linde (Guildford, U.K.) announced that it has started up the first of two new high-purity nitrogen generators in Shanghai, China, as part of a 20-year contract to supply ultra-high purity industrial gases to GTA Semiconductor. The second generator is expected…
Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) has announced the creation of a new global Bio-based and Renewables application development team, which will lead innovation for the conversion of renewable feedstocks into oleo-chemicals, biofuels, bio-chemicals and bio-polymers. It will also support the…
Lucite International (LI), A group company of Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo), together with Agilyx Corp. (Tigard, Ore.), is working to progress circular solutions in Europe for Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA). PMMA is one of the very few plastics that can…
Ingevity Corp. (North Charleston, S.C.) and Ozinga Energy have announced a partnership to begin a field demonstration of adsorbed natural gas (ANG) bi-fuel pickup trucks. Developed by Adsorbed Natural Gas Products, Inc. and Ingevity, the ANG system is made possible…
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announced that its subsidiary Tecnimont S.p.A., as majority leader of the consortium including MT Russia LLC, Sinopec Engineering Inc. and Sinopec Engineering Group Co., Ltd Russian Branch, has signed an EPSS contract (Engineering, Procurement and…
Linde (Guildford, U.K.) has started up a syngas processing plant in Geismar, Louisiana. The new plant will supply carbon monoxide and hydrogen to a top global chemical company, as well as other refining and chemical customers along Linde's hydrogen pipeline…
In recent years, the Rembe Safety Days series of events has repeatedly made Brilon, Germany a meeting place for global explosion safety and process safety. The content of the events was to present and discuss current topics in these areas,…
The growing circular economy in the chemical and plastics industry requires alternative raw material sources beyond crude oil, which urgently need to be further researched. Industrial electrochemistry can make a significant contribution to the development of new raw material sources…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) today announced the €25-million first stage of a long-term program to expand the capacity of its Dossenheim and Hanau facilities in Germany to support growing pharmaceutical demand for the contract manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients…
CNOOC Huizhou Petrochemical Company Limited (CHPCL) has selected Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France) ParamaX Technology Suite for its petrochemical complex expansion in Daya Bay, China. The project aims at increasing CHPCL’s high-purity aromatics production capacity to 3,000,000 ton/yr. The new aromatics complex…