On this edition of the Chemical Engineering Podcast, senior editor Scott Jenkins talks to Jan Haemer and Bhavin Manjee, two partners at the industry consulting firm Simon-Kucher & Partners. We discuss commercial challenges facing the chemical industry and how some…
Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) and Comprimo (part of Worley) have announced a global strategic alliance to jointly license the TopClaus sulfur removal and recovery solution. TopClaus helps users achieve more than 99.9% sulfur removal efficiency (SRE) by integrating two…
MHI Compressor International Corp. (MCO-I; Houston) will supply the compression for Gulf Coast Ammonia’s (GCA) new state-of-the-art ammonia production facility in Texas City. The equipment will be purchased by Air Products, which will build and operate the facility in parallel…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced that its joint venture (JV) with Daewoo Engineering & Construction and Hyundai Heavy Industries has successfully achieved final provisional turnover of the facilities for Kuwait National Petroleum Company’s (KNPC) Mina Abdullah Package 2 (MAB2) Clean…
Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) and Praj Industries Ltd. (Pune, India) have signed a binding, definitive Master Framework Agreement (MFA) to collaborate on providing renewable, low carbon, low particulate, Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and renewable premium gasoline in India and neighboring…
Lummus Technology (Houston, Tex.) announced the successful start-up of its CDTaee unit for Hellenic Petroleum's refinery in Aspropyrgos, Greece. For this start-up, the existing CDTame unit was revamped to the latest generation of CDTaee technology for bio-ethers production. The new…
Veolia (Paris) has announced the signature of an agreement with the Suez Group to acquire its subsidiary Suez RV OSIS, which specializes in the maintenance of sanitation networks and infrastructure and on-site industrial services (for the most part, industrial maintenance…
Siemens Energy and Beijing Green Hydrogen Technology Development Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Power International Development Ltd. (China Power), signed an agreement on providing a hydrogen production system for a hydrogen fueling station. Located in Yanqing District, Beijing, one…
PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.) announced a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) for a research initiative aimed at developing energy-efficient coatings systems for the automotive industry. The PPG project – “Modeling Coating Flow and…
Elkem ASA (Oslo, Norway) has selected Herøya Industrial Park as the site for a potential large-scale plant for battery graphite production in Norway. The project, named Northern Recharge, aims to supply the fast-growing battery industry through a competitive production process…