Abengoa (Seville, Spain; www.abengoa.com) has been selected by Advanced Water Technology (AWT) to jointly develop the world’s first large-scale desalination plant to be powered by solar energy, in Saudi Arabia. AWT is a newly formed company based in Riyadh whose…
KMG Chemicals, Inc. (Houston; www.kmgchemicals.com), a global provider of specialty chemicals in select markets, has announced that it has sold its creosote distribution business to Koppers Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Koppers Holdings Inc. Assets included in the transaction are…
Anellotech Inc. (Pearl River, N.Y.; www.anellotech.com), IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) and its subsidiary Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) have announced a strategic alliance to develop and commercialize a new technology for the low-cost production of bio-based benzene, toluene and paraxylene using…
Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.asahi-kasei.co.jp) will construct a validation plant at its Mizushima Works facility (Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan) for its newly developed process to produce diphenyl carbonate (DPC), a monomer used in polycarbonate (PC) production, via dialkyl carbonate…
Badger Licensing LLC (Boston, Mass.; www.badgerlicensing.com) has announced that Lihuayi Weiyuan Chemical Co., Ltd. (Lihuayi) has selected Badger to provide its proprietary technology for a grassroots bisphenol-A (BPA) plant being built in Lijin, Shandong Province, China. The award includes technology…
Amec Foster Wheeler (London, U.K.; www.amecfw.com) has announced the award of a three-year project management contract by Shenhua Ningxia Coal Group for the Coal-chemical Byproduct Deep Processing Complex Utilization Project in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in northwest China. Under…
Bayer MaterialScience AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.materialscience.bayer.de) plans to complete construction next year of a new production facility for hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) in Caojing, China, with a planned capacity of 50,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr). 2016 will also see capacities…
Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) has divested a package of fertilizer process technologies and established a new technology partnership with Casale SA (Lugano, Switzerland; www.casale.ch), is a global leader in the design and refurbishment of ammonia methanol and urea plants.…
Algenol LLC (Ft. Myers, Fla.; www.algenol.com) has announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved fuels made from Algenol’s process as an advanced biofuel, meeting the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reduction requirements under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). Fuels…
Badger Licensing LLC (Boston, Mass.; www.badgerlicensing.com) has announced that Qingdao Soda Ash Industrial New Material & Technology Co. has selected Badger’s proprietary technology for a grassroots ethylbenzene/styrene monomer (EB/SM) plant with a capacity of 500,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr)…