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SNC-Lavalin wins project management contract for new petrochemicals complex in Vietnam

SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) it has signed a project management contract (PMC) with Long Son Petrochemicals Company Limited (LSP), a subsidiary of the Siam Cement Public Company Limited (SCG) of Thailand. Under the agreement, SNC-Lavalin and LSP will form…

GEA completes sale of separator production facility in France

GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.gea.com) successfully concluded the sale of its GEA Westfalia Separator Production France SAS entity — its French standard separators production facility and the respective real estate in Château-Thierry (Hauts-de-France region) to the French industrial group…

Ineos to acquire the chemicals intermediates business of Flint Hill Resources

INEOS Enterprises (London; www.ineos.com) has confirmed that it has entered into a binding agreement to acquire the chemical intermediates business of Flint Hills Resources. The deal is expected to complete before the end of 2018, subject to regulatory approval. The…

Siemens and Southern Idaho Solid Waste commission landfill gas-to-energy project

Siemens AG (Munich, Germany: www.siemens.com) and Southern Idaho Solid Waste (SISW) recently announced the successful commissioning of two SGE-56HM gas engines that are providing environmentally friendly electrical power for a landfill gas-to-energy project at the Milner Butte Landfill in Burley,…

EDL signs contract for dewaxing/deoiling unit with Sepahan Oil

In mid-August 2018, Sepahan Oil Co. (SOC; Tehran, Iran) and EDL Anlagenbau Gesellschaft mbH (EDL; Leipzig, Germany; www.edl.poerner.de) signed a contract for the modernization of the lube oil and wax production. SOC and EDL signed the contract for granting a…

Emerson to acquire GE’s Intelligent Platforms business

Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com) announced it has agreed to acquire Intelligent Platforms, a division of General Electric. Intelligent Platforms’ programmable logic controller (PLC) technologies will enable Emerson, a leader in automation for process and industrial applications, to provide its…

Momentive Performance Materials opens new silane production plant in Leverkusen

Momentive Performance Materials Inc. (Waterford, N.Y.; www.momentive.com) celebrated the official opening of its new NXT silane production facility in the Leverkusen Chempark in Germany. The city of Leverkusen and Chempark officials joined Momentive’s CEO and other leaders to officially cut…

GE Power to deliver India’s first low-NOx boiler systems for Tata Chemicals and NTPC

GE Power (www.ge.com/power) announced that it has been selected to provide technology for NTPC and Tata Chemicals to upgrade two coal-fired boilers in India with GE’s low-NOx firing system. This is the first installation of this technology in India and…

Borealis and Bockatech to develop foam-injection molding solutions for recyclable packaging

Borealis Group AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) announced a new strategic alliance with Bockatech, a U.K. early-stage Greentech and provider of EcoCore technology for sustainable packaging. This new material and technology partnership will advance the circular economy by developing low-cost, high…

Versalis acquires four bio-based chemicals companies in Italy

Versalis (San Donato Milanese, Italy; www.versalis.eni.com) has won the bidding process ordered by the Court of Alessandria for Mossi & Ghisolfi's Group’s “green” activities. The transfer of the related business units will be formally agreed in the coming weeks, in…