Toray Industries Inc.’s (Tokyo, Japan; www.toray.com) Romembra reverse osmosis (RO) and Torayfil ultrafiltration (UF) membrane technologies (www.toraywater.com) have been selected for a new seawater desalination facility in Brazil, which is set to become the largest in the country. ArcelorMittal (www.arcelormitall.com),…
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Desalitech Ltd. (Boston, Mass.; www.desalitech.com), a closed-circuit reverse osmosis (CCRO) company. The transaction is expected to close in January 2020, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.…
BP plc (London; www.bp.com) and Arzeda (Seattle, Wash.; www.azeda.com) are pleased to announce they have entered a second extended collaboration agreement for developing a bio-process for production of a renewable chemical of high strategic and industrial interest to BP.After successful…
Baltic Chemical Plant LLC (BCP), a wholly owned subsidiary of RusGasDobycha, has selected Univation Technologies’ (Houston; www.univation.com) UNIPOL PE Process for six reactor lines to be located at the Ust-Luga marine port located in Leningradsky Region, Russia. Each UNIPOL PE…
The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC; www.adnoc.ae) signed a Framework Agreement with Reliance Industries Ltd.(RIL; Mumbai, India; www.ril.com) to explore development of an Ethylene Dichloride (EDC) facility in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi.Under the terms of the agreement, ADNOC and RIL…
Sludge is a byproduct of processes carried out in industry and agriculture. It is very wet, so disposing of it is difficult. A pilot project at Stora Enso Oyj’s (Helsinki, Finland; www.storaenso.com) Heinola Mill in Finland addresses this challenge using…
Zhejiang Satellite Petrochemical Co., Ltd. is using a Polybed pressure swing adsorption (PSA) unit supplied by Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) to provide high-purity hydrogen to its integrated refining and petrochemicals complex in China. The PSA unit purifies hydrogen…
U.S. chemical production expanded at a slower pace in 2019 due to trade challenges and slower growth in several key end-use markets for chemistry, according to the American Chemistry Council's (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) Year-End 2019 Chemical Industry Situation and…
Project management, engineering, manufacturing and construction firm Nuberg EPC (New Delhi, India; www.nubergepc.com) has been awarded a contract for the expansion of an existing 45-ton/d chlor-alkali plant and Greenfield calcium chloride plant project in Sohar, Oman by Oman Chlorine. The…
As part of Citeo’s call for projects to promote eco-design and recycling and recovery projects for plastic and paper in France, leading international energy company Total S.A. (Paris; www.total.com), plastic recycling technology provider Recycling Technologies (www.rtech.co.uk), and global brands Nestlé…