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Air Liquide invests in the U.S. Gulf Coast to support new long-term agreement with Methanex

Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) announces an agreement with Methanex Corp. to supply oxygen, nitrogen and utilities to its upcoming methanol plant expansion project in Geismar, Louisiana. To serve Methanex and its other customers in the industrial basin that encompasses…

St1 Nordic licenses Honeywell Ecofining technology in Sweden

Honeywell today announced that St1 Nordic Oy (Helsinki, Finland) has licensed the UOP’s Ecofining renewable fuels technology to produce 4,000 barrels per day of diesel and jet fuel integrated with its refinery complex in Gothenburg, Sweden. Basic engineering design for…

2019 Packaging Innovation Awards announced by Dow

Yesterday, Dow (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) announced the winners of the 2019 Packaging Innovation Awards, which recognize the packaging industry’s top achievements in innovative packaging design, materials, technologies and processes. The highest honor, the Diamond Award, went to Dai Nippon Printing…

New Center for Petrochemical, Energy and Technology is a partnership between Emerson and San Jacinto College

  Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com), a global technology and engineering company, has helped design, equip and provide training tools for San Jacinto College’s new Center for Petrochemical, Energy and Technology (CPET), designed to empower students of all levels with…

2019 CEPCI Updates: July (prelim.) and June (final)

The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) for July 2019 decreased from the previous month’s value. The decline is the fifth within the last six months. Decreases in the Equipment and Buildings subindices…

Sulzer GTC wins award for benzene production complex modernization project in Russia

Sulzer GTC Technology (Houston; www.sulzer.com) has signed an agreement with JSC SIBUR-Neftehim (SIBUR) to provide its licensed pyrolysis gasoline (pygas) processing technologies, including design of the fractionation, first and second stage hydrotreating, aromatics extraction and thermal hydrodealkylation technologies for the…

Fujian Meide taps Honeywell technology to monitor on-purpose propylene production

Honeywell today announced that Fujian Meide Petrochemical Co., Ltd. will use the Honeywell Process Reliability Advisor to provide prescriptive monitoring of its UOP C3 Oleflex unit in China. The Oleflex unit is designed to convert propane into 660,000 tons per…

TechnipFMC and BTG-BTL to build pyrolysis bio-oils plant in Sweden

TechnipFMC (Houston; www.technipfmc.com) and BTG-BTL (Twente, the Netherlands) will design and build a production facility in Sweden where wood residues will be converted into bio-oil. It will be the first plant in the world where ‘green fuel’ will be produced…

Nouryon and Van Remmen join forces to demonstrate new water-treatment technology

Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.nouryon.com) has joined forces with water treatment company Van Remmen UV Technology on a novel method to address the growing concern of pharmaceutical micropollutants in waste water. The process, which combines the Advanox ultraviolet (UV) treatment…

Evonik celebrates groundbreaking for PA 12 capacity expansion

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has officially begun construction on its largest investment to date in Germany. Armin Laschet, the minister president of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, and Christian Kullmann, the chairman of the executive board of…