Wison Engineering Services Co. (Shanghai, China; www.wison.com), one of the leading chemical engineering, procurement and construction management (EPC) service providers in China, has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Wison Engineering Ltd., has continued to make headway in proprietary technology…
AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has announced its participation in a major Dutch partnership working with Enerkem (Montreal, Canada; www.enerkem.com) to explore the use of waste streams as a feedstock for chemical production and the development of waste-to-chemicals facilities. The…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has opened a new facility in Bad Wimpfen, Germany to produce the synthetic building block 4-ethoxy-1,1,1-trifluoro-3-butene-2-one (ETFBO), expanding its range of fluorinated organic intermediates. ETFBO is a building block that boosts the efficiency of active…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Rex.; www.cbi.com) has announced that it has been awarded a contract valued in excess of $40 million by Coffeyville Resources Refining & Marketing LLC. The project scope includes the engineering, procurement, fabrication and field construction of a…
The S&P Index for chemical companies fell in October, by 2.6%, while the wider S&P 500 index rose by 2.3%, according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). From the…
Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. (Columbus, Ohio; www.momentive.com) has announced the latest expansion of its Forest Products business through the construction of two new formaldehyde plants in Lousiana, in Geismar and Luling, respectively. The company plans to invest approximately $66…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been awarded a contract to commercialize an energy-saving distillation system, called SuperHIDiC, which was patented in 2011. The contract is for a distillation column in a methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) production plant to…
Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS; Yokohama Japan; www.mpshq.com), received an order from Hidroelectrica del Cantabrico, S.A., the Spanish power producer of EDP (Energia de Portugal) group, for two sets of selective catalytic reduction (SCR) type DeNOx systems for installation at…
KBR Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) for the debottlenecking and expansion of its Petrokemya Butadiene Extraction Plant in Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia. Arabian Petrochemical Co. (Petrokemya), a…
Solazyme, Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.; www.solazyme.com) and Versalis, the chemical subsidiary of Eni s.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.eni.com) have announced a partnership to expand the commercial use of Encapso, what is said to be the world’s first commercially-available, biodegradable encapsulated…