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ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions wins fertilizer contract in Hungary  

The Hungarian fertilizer manufacturer Nitrogénmüvek Zrt. is extending its cooperation with plant engineering specialist ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com). A granulation plant with a capacity of 1,550 ton/yr of ammonium nitrate (AN) or 1,960 ton/yr of calcium ammonium…

GTC Technology licenses isomerization process technology in China

GTC Technology (Houston; www.gtctech.com) will provide its licensed Isomalk technologies to Shandong Sincier Chemical Group (SSCG) for a new refinery and petrochemicals complex in Dongying, Shandong province, China.  Isomalk-2, a light-naphtha isomerization technology, will be used to produce an isomerate…

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ICL IP completing 2nd production facility for polymeric flame retardants  

ICL (Tel Aviv, Israel; www.icl-group.com) says that its ICL Industrial Products segment (ICL IP) is progressing as planned with the project to increase its production capacity of FR-122P, it's polymeric flame retardant (FR) to replace the HBCD FR which is…

WorleyParsons signs global agreement with ASD Global

WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) has signed a general agreement with ASD Global for the use of OptiPlant Pipe Router and Pipe Support Optimizer for all of its projects worldwide. In order to increase engineering efficiency for pre-FEED and…

Chemtura to sell agrochemicals business for $1 billion

Chemtura Corp. (Philadelphia, Pa.; www.chemtura.com)  has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its agrochemicals business, Chemtura AgroSolutions, to Platform Specialty Products Corp., a global specialty chemicals company, for approximately $1 billion. The consideration will be…

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GEA Group to sell its Heat Exchangers Segment to Triton  

GEA Group (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.gea.com) announces the sale of its Heat Exchangers (HX) Segment to funds advised by Triton (Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.triton-partners.com). The purchase agreement was signed today. The sale is based on an enterprise value of approximately…

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BASF to build new world-scale plant for specialty amines in Ludwigshafen  

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is building a new world-scale plant for the production of specialty amines in Ludwigshafen. Startup of the facility with a total annual capacity of about 12,000 metric tons is scheduled for 2015. The product range…

Sibur subsidiary Polief expands PET capacity

Polief, a subsidiary of Sibur (Moscow; www.sibur.com), has completed its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) production expansion project in Blagoveshchensk, increasing its capacity from 140,000 to 210,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr).   As part of the production expansion project, Polief has…

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Outotec to deliver iron-ore pelletizing technology to India  

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) received an order from a customer in India for the design and delivery of an iron-ore pelletizing plant to be constructed in North-East India. The value of the order is approximately €70 million and it…

Air Products to build new hydrogen plant at Enterprise PDH facility

Air Products ((Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has announced a longterm agreement with Enterprise Products Operating LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Enterprise Products Partners L.P., that will increase hydrogen supply for refinery and petrochemical customers connected to Air Products’ vast Gulf Coast Connection…