Wacker Dymatic, a joint venture of Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) and Dymatic Chemicals Inc. (Shunde, China), opened a new silicone emulsion plant in China. The facility, located in the Jiangsu Yangtze River Chemical Industrial Park, Zhangjiagang city (Jiangsu…
ONGC Mangalore Petrochemical—a venture jointly promoted by India's largest crude oil and natural gas producer, Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC; Dehradun, India; www.ongcindia.com), and Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemical Ltd. (MRPL; Mangalore, India; www.mrpl.co.in)—has chosen UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.;…
BASF Corp. (Florham Park, N.J.; www.basf.com) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its manufacturing facility in Shreveport, Louisiana and the related contract manufacturing business for finished pharmaceuticals to Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories (www.drreddys.com) an international pharmaceutical…
As part of a new industrial complex producing Polysilicon, Caloric Anlagenbau GmbH (Gräfelfing , Germany; www.caloric.com) has been awarded a contract for a hydrogen-generation plant that uses methanol as feed stock. In a short period of time, this is another…
As part of a Joint Venture, the technology group The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) and Waste Management Inc. (Houston, Tex.; www.wm.com) will build the world’s biggest plant for the conversion of landfill gas into environmentally friendly biogas in Livermore,…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine AG of Germany upon continuous test runs to be performed with Zangezur's concentrate at Outotec's HydroCopper demonstration plant in Pori, Finland. Zangezur is planning to build a HydroCopper…
Qatar Petroleum (www.QP.com) has awarded Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) basic engineering design contracts for the new 250,000 bbl/d Al Shaheen petroleum refinery to be built in the Messaieed Industial City in Qatar. Axens will supply the following process technologies* for…
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has signed a long-term supply contract for industrial gases with the world’s largest steel producer ArcelorMittal. The agreement involves the construction of a new air separation unit (ASU) at ArcelorMittal’s site at Galati, Romania,…
The opening of a subsidiary in Istanbul last month signifies a continuation of Beckhoff Automation's (Verl, Germany; www.beckhoff.com) export offensive. After several years of successful presence in the Turkish market through a distributor, Beckhoff intends to strengthen its sales activities…
Caloric Anlagenbau GmbH (Gräfelfing , Germany; www.caloric.com) has signed its first contract for the supply of a carbon dioxide recovery unit using aMDEA-solvent (activated methyl diethanolamine). The plant was ordered by a German engineering company and is part of a…