Krohne GmbH & Co. KG (Duisburg, Germany; www.krohne.com) and Samson AG (Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.samson.de) introduced the joint venture (JV) Focus-On (Dordrecht, the Netherlands; www.focus-on-process.com) at a press conference on September 19 in Frankfurt. Focus-On is a newly founded…
Valmet Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.valmet.com) has invested in a new pilot facility at its Fiber Technology Center in Sundsvall, Sweden to strengthen the company’s research and development capabilities related to bioenergy, biofuels and biochemicals. The new pilot facility will start…
Today, Atonix Digital — a subsidiary of Black & Veatch Overland Park, Kansas; www.bv.com) focused on data-driven software applications — announces its new Wastewater Treatment Solution. The solution is geared to help facility operators identify previously undetectable changes in systems…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…