Verdezyne Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.; www.verdezyne.com) will build a commercial-scale renewable chemicals plant in a biotechnology industrial park in Nusajaya, Malaysia. Through an agreement with Malaysian Bio-XCell Sdn Bhd (Nusajaya, Malaysia; www.bio-xcell.my), construction will commence in 2015. The plant is designed…
Technology, engineering and project management company Neste Jacobs Oy (Porvoo, Finland; www.nestejacobs.com) will perform Project Management, Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management services to construct Norilsk Nickel LNG Station in Harjavalta, Finland. Neste Jacobs will carry out the project during the…
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki; www.kemira.com) has announced the completion of the company’s new Nanjing production base. The Nanjing plant is located in the Nanjing Chemical Park, Jiangsu Province. Kemira’s already completed and future investments into the plant will amount to approximately$…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded a contract by Westlake Chemical Corp. (Houston; www.westlake.com) to provide detailed engineering and procurement services to expand the recovery section of Westlake’s Petro 1 ethylene plant at its complex in Sulphur, Louisiana, USA. Technip’s operating…
Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) today announced that Huineng, a large-scale substitute natural gas (SNG) plant, went successfully on-stream near the city of Ordos, located in Inner Mongolia in the northern part of China. Topsøe has designed the methanation…
BP plc (London, U.K.; www.bp.com) has announced that it plans to invest over $200 million to upgrade its purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plants at Cooper River, South Carolina and Geel, Belgium. The investments will position these assets amongst the most…
Royal DSM (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) has opened its new center for research and development of high-performance materials on the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Sittard-Geleen, the Netherlands. The completion of DSM’s largest materials center worldwide is part of the €100-million…
A seven-person investigation team from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB; www.csb.gov) is deploying to the scene of a fatal chemical release at the La Porte DuPont Plant located near Houston, Texas. According to DuPont officials, there was a release…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been awarded a contract by BCL Ltd. for modernizing the nickel flash smelting furnace in Selebi Phikwe, Botswana. In addition, the parties have made a service level agreement for the operation and maintenance for…
Thomas Swan & Co. (Consett, U.K.; www.thomas-swan.co.uk) has announced that they have successfully secured four government grants for graphene-related projects within the program “Realizing the Graphene Revolution” launched by Innovate UK. The lead participants in the program are Sharp Laboratories of…