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Saipem acquires CO2-capture assets in Canada

Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy; www.saipem.com) has acquired a proprietary technology for CO2 capture from the Canadian company CO2 Solutions Inc. (CSI). CSI is a leading innovator in the field of enzyme-enabled carbon capture, actively working to develop and…

2019 CEPCI Updates: November (prelim.) and October (final)

The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) for November 2019 (the most recent available) decreased from the previous month’s value, the eighth decline in the last ten months. All four major subindices of the overall CEPCI (Equipment,…

Shin-Etsu enters license agreement with Qromis for gallium nitride technology

Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. (Tokyo; www.shinetsu.co.jp), announced that it has concluded a licensing agreement with Qromis, Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) regarding the patented technology Qromis possesses in the field of gallium nitride (GaN) processing, as Shin-Etsu aggressively moves ahead with its…

BASF to expand capacity for polyurethane dispersions in Spain

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) announced a single-digit million-euro investment in the capacity expansion of water-based polyurethane dispersions at its Castellbisbal site in Spain. The expansion will allow BASF to increase its production capacity by 30%. “We want to continue…

Linde starts up air-separation plant at Shanghai Huali Microelectronics

Linde (Guildford, U.K.; www.linde.com) announced it has started up a new air separation plant to supply nitrogen, high purity oxygen and argon to the 12-in. wafer product line of Shanghai Huali Microelectronics Corporation (HLMC) in Shanghai. In addition, Linde will…

Sulzer wins contract to supply innovative and compact gas dehydration technology for ExxonMobil

Sulzer Chemtech (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzer.com) is supplying the first ever industrial scale cMIST system for natural gas dehydration, with start-up scheduled for the second half of 2020. The unit will be installed at an onshore ExxonMobil facility in the U.S.…

U.S. specialty chemical markets end 2019 on soft note, ACC says

The American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) reported that U.S. specialty chemicals market volumes ended 2019 on a soft note, with a 0.3 percent decline in December following a 0.1 percent gain in November. All changes in the data…

Invista and Hengli Petrochemical start up fourth PTA line in Dalian

INVISTA’s technology and licensing group, INVISTA Performance Technologies (IPT; www.ipt.invista.com) and Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Co., Ltd have announced the successful start-up of Hengli’s fourth purified terephthalic acid (PTA) line. This plant boasts a capacity of 2.5 million metric tons per…

Eni and Adnoc announce carbon-capture collaboration

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC; www.adnoc.ae) signed a strategic framework agreement with Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy; www.eni.com) to explore new opportunities for collaboration in carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS), where ADNOC is an industry leader, and additional…

Gaz Sintez chooses Topsoe’s SynCOR Methanol for plant near Saint Petersburg, Russia

Gaz Sintez has nominated Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) as licensor of its methanol plant in the Leningrad Region, Russia. The plant will produce 1.6 million tons per year of АА grade methanol based on Topsoe’s SynCOR Methanol technology.…