Mobile Navigation

Latest News

Axens signs agreement with PKN Orlen for Vegan Technology License

Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) has signed an agreement with PKN Orlen for Vegan Technology License and Process Book Supply for the production of renewable diesel and jet fuel, through hydrotreating of vegetable oils in its Płock Refinery in Poland. Based…

Industrial Lighting Safety

LED lighting can provide a safer alternative to conventional high-pressure sodium, and fluorescent lighting fixtures in industrial settings In many chemical facilities, lighting is a necessary but challenging feat. Adequate illumination is, of course, essential to operations and worker safety,…

Grupa Azoty selects KBR technology for high-purity nitric acid plant

KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract to utilize its proprietary Plinke Magnac technology to produce high-concentration nitric acid at Grupa Azoty’s Tarnow site in Poland KBR will provide basic and detailed engineering design, equipment, and related advisory services…

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

The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) for October 2019 decreased from the previous month’s value, the seventh decline in the last nine months. The decrease in the overall CEPCI was driven by…

McDermott wins technology contract for refinery modernization project in Serbia

McDermott International, Inc. (Houston; www.mcdermott.com) announced that it has been awarded a technology contract by Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS) for the modernization of its existing Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) unit to be implemented at their refinery in Pancevo, Serbia. As part…

Sasol raises production rates at Lake Charles ethane cracker

Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa; www.sasol.co.za) announced that its Lake Charles Chemical Project (LCCP) Ethane Cracker, located in Lake Charles, Louisiana, is increasing production rates following the successful replacement of the acetylene reactor catalyst. The ethane cracker achieved beneficial operation…

BASF inaugurates the second phase of its new antioxidants manufacturing plant in Shanghai

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) today inaugurated the second phase of its new, world-scale antioxidants manufacturing plant at its Caojing site in Shanghai, China. The second phase comprises a synthesis plant to produce the antioxidants Irgafos 168 and Irganox 1076.…

Gas-monitoring specialist Rebellion Photonics acquired by Honeywell

Honeywell (Charlotte, N.C.; www.honeywell.com) announced that it has acquired Rebellion Photonics, a Houston-based provider of intelligent visual gas-monitoring solutions that maximize safety, operational performance, emissions mitigation and compliance in the oil and gas, petrochemical and power industries. Rebellion offers the…

Tata Chemicals inaugurates plastic-waste processing plant

Tata Chemicals Ltd. (TCL; Mumbai, India; www.tatachemicals.com) announced that the Tata Chemicals Society for Rural Development (TCSRD) inaugurated a dry-waste processing plant at Mithapur. This dry-waste processing plant will process three types of plastic wastes: industrial, municipal and scrap. Part…

DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences to merge with IFF

International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc. (IFF; New York, N.Y.; www.iff.com) and DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for the merger of IFF and DuPont’s Nutrition & Biosciences (N&B) business in a Reverse Morris…