Eastman Chemical Company (Kingsport, Tenn.; www.eastman.com) announced the successful completion of a de-bottlenecking of its diethylhydroxylamine (DEHA) unit in St. Gabriel, La. The debottlenecking has resulted in a 15 to 20 percent increase in capacity. “With growth in demand for…
Minimizing Explosion Risk Where Other Solutions Cannot To run carbon disulfide recovery with the highest safety, a Chinese chemical company wanted to install a tunable diode laser (TDL) oxygen analyzer. But the line size of the pipe at the installation…
FAR Chemical (Palm Bay, Fla.; www.far-chemical.com), a leader in scaling up and manufacturing multi-step chemical syntheses and handling highly active materials, announced today that it will expand its Palm Bay, Florida facility. FAR specializes in fine and specialty chemicals such…
BASF New Business GmbH (BNB), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the German chemical group BASF (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Japanese ceramics manufacturer NGK Insulators Ltd. (NGK) today announced the conclusion of a sales partnership agreement (SPA). The agreement gives BNB non-exclusive…
Total SA (Paris; www.total.com) has started up production from the Culzean gas condensate field, located on Block 22/25a, 230 kilometers off the coast of Aberdeen, U.K. With a plateau production of 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d), Culzean…
DuPont de Nemours, Inc. (DuPont, Wilmington DE, www.dupot.com), announced on June 3, its debut as an independent company following the successful separation of its Agriculture Division through the spin-off of Corteva, Inc. (Corteva). The company was formerly known as DowDuPont…
More than half of consumers said they would pay more for sustainable products designed to be reused or recycled, according to results of a survey from Accenture (Dublin, Ireland; www.accenture.com). The survey of 6,000 consumers in 11 countries across North America,…
Babcock & Wilcox SPIG, Inc. (SPIG; Paruzzaro, Italy; www.babcock.com/spig) has been awarded a contract to provide cooling tower upgrade services for BASF Dow HPPO Production BVBA’s propylene oxide manufacturing facility in Antwerp, Belgium.SPIG will use its proven service engineering expertise…
Genomatica (San Diego, Calif.; www.genomatica.com), a technology leader for bio-based chemicals, announced it has acquired certain assets of the REG Life Sciences division (REG LS) of Renewable Energy Group, Inc., the largest supplier of advanced biofuels in North America. Genomatica…
First Integrated Solutions Ltd. (Aberdeen, U.K.; firstintegrated.co.uk), a global provider of rental equipment solutions to the to the utilities, chemical, energy, engineering and transport sectors, announced the opening of their new facility based within the port of Dundee, U.K.First Integrated…