Clariant (Munich, Germany; www.clariant.com) today announced an agreement with Xuzhou HaiDing Chemical Technology Co. Ltd. to develop a custom-built Catofin catalyst and propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit in cooperation with its technology partner CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com). The project includes…
BP plc (London; www.bp.com) announced plans to build a new lubricants blending plant in China to help meet the country’s rapidly growing demand for high quality lubricants. The new plant will be BP’s third lubricants blending plant in China and,…
Aspen Technology, Inc. (Bedford, Mass.; www.aspentech.com) has acquired the Cipher Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) cloud-native software and edge connectivity assets of RtTech Software Inc. of New Brunswick, Canada. The acquisition strengthens AspenTech’s asset optimization strategy by providing sophisticated cloud…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced it has been awarded a contract for more than $95 million by Saudi Aramco Shell Refinery (SASREF). The scope of work includes the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) for SASREF's modernization and expansion…
AkzoNobel’s (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) Specialty Chemicals business is investing more than €4 million to increase production capacity in Sweden for its Levasil CC-branded product line of patented surface-modified colloidal silica. The expansion will help meet growing customer demand and will…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced that its new plant in the Pukou Economic Development Zone (PKEDZ), Nanjing, eastern China, has come on-stream to supply ultra-high purity gases to its customer in the park. The facility also provides liquid…
Sekisui Chemical Co. (Osaka, Japan; www.sekisuichemical.com) and carbon recycling company LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.; www.lanzatech.com) have made significant progress on a waste-to-chemicals platform converting municipal solid waste (MSW) to new products. Today, many MSW streams are incinerated or super-heated to produce…
Wood Group plc (Aberdeen, Scotland; www.woodgroup.com) is providing GSK Vaccines GmbH (GSK), part of GlaxoSmithKline Group, with engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for a new biotech facility to be built in Marburg, Germany. The new multi-million dollar contract…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) has been awarded a contract by Canada Kuwait Petrochemical Corp. (CKPC) to provide front-end engineering design (FEED) services for a proposed greenfield, integrated propane dehydrogenation and polypropylene facility located in Sturgeon County, Alberta,…
SUEZ (Paris, France; www.suez-environnement.fr) has been tasked with building a production plant for drinking water in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, on behalf of Chinese company SINOMACH-CMEC. This contract, worth €43 million for SUEZ, includes pumping of raw water into…