KBR, Inc. (Houston) has been awarded two contracts by Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group Co. Ltd (Baofeng Energy) for its 500,000 metric-tons-per-year (m.t./yr) coal-to-olefins project & 500,000-m.t./yr C2-C5 comprehensive utilization project to be built in Ningdong Town, Lingwu City, Ningxia, China.…
DuPont Clean Technologies (Wilmington, Del.) has been awarded the contract to supply Hengyi Industries SDN BHD (Hengyi) with licensing and engineering for a STRATCO alkylation unit at the Brunei refinery in Pulau Murara Besar, Brunei. The new refinery will not only…
Capstone Turbine Corporation (Van Nuys, Calif.) announced that through a collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, it has achieved significant progress in the development of a hydrogen-operable microturbine product. Development testing performed at Argonne demonstrates that…
Industrial software firms Aveva Group plc (Cambridge, U.K.) and OSIsoft (San Leandro, Calif.), have announced an agreement for Aveva to acquire OSIsoft for $5.0 billion. Aveva and OSIsoft will combine their complementary product offerings, bringing together industrial software and data…
Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) has agreed to acquire Swiss-German privately held drug delivery device developer and manufacturer Haselmeier for an enterprise value of EUR 100 million. Haselmeier is a leading, own-IP provider of drug delivery devices such as subcutaneous self-injection…
PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) and LG Chem recently inked an agreement to build a Nitrile Butadiene Latex (NBL) manufacturing plant at Pengerang Integrated Complex (PIC) in Johor to target the growing nitrile glove market, further strengthening…
Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. launched mass production of MCL-HS200, an advanced functional laminate material for printed wiring boards, with low transmission loss and low warpage properties required for semiconductor packaging substrates used in such fields as fifth-generation mobile communications systems…
How a design change has made the vacuum drum filter resistant to corrosion in applications like producing titaniumdioxyd (TiO2) in sulfuric acid (H2SO4) processes, helping to significantly lower production losses and reduce maintenance costs. Prized for its excellent weathering properties,…
The American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) reported that with continued recovery in the U.S. economy, U.S. specialty chemicals market volumes rebounded by 1.9 percent in July, off from a strong revised 4.6 percent gain in June, a revised…
Metsä Group’s (Helsinki, Finland) innovation company Metsä Spring and Valmet Oyj (Espoo, Finland) have decided to continue the development collaboration related to 3D fiber products and hence, to invest jointly approximately EUR 20 million in a new R&D project. As…