Abengoa SA (Seville, Spain), in consortium with the company SEPCOIII, has started commercial operation of phase two of the Taweelah desalination plant (Abu Dhabi), following the successful completion of the contractual tests. This is the largest reverse osmosis desalination plant…
Stamicarbon BV (Sittard, the Netherlands) has signed a contract covering PDP, licensing and equipment supply for an Ultra-Low Energy grassroots urea plant in Jiangxi province, China. This will be the largest Stamicarbon Ultra-Low Energy plant with a design capacity of…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced it has been awarded an engineering and design services contract from The Chemours Co. (Wilmington, Del.) to increase capacity and advance technology for its industry-leading Nafion ion-exchange materials platform. The contract is part of Chemours’ $200…
Toyo Engineering Corp. announced that its wholly owned subisdiary Toyo Engineering India Pvt. Ltd. has been awarded a contract by ExxonMobil Lubricants Private Limited (EMLPL) for the Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning (EPCC) of 159,000 kL/year lubricant manufacturing plant at…
Henkel AG (Düsseldorf, Germany) has signed an agreement on the sale of its business activities in Russia to a consortium of local financial investors. In April 2022, the company had announced the decision to exit from Russia. The consortium that…
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced the startup of Shenghong Refining & Chemical (Lianyungang) Co., Ltd.'s 2,800,000-ton/yr paraxylene unit. The grassroots unit, which is the world's largest double reslurry paraxylene crystallization unit, is part of Shenghong's refining and petrochemical integrated project in Lianyungang,…
Technip Energies (Paris) has been awarded a contract by Ningbo Juhua Chemical & Science Co., Ltd. (Juhua) for a 1,3-propanediol (PDO) plant with a capacity of 72,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) and a 150,000-m.t./yr polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT) plant in…
Royal DSM N.V. (Herleen, the Netherlands) has entered into exclusive negotiations with Adare Pharma Solutions in order to acquire Adare Biome, a pioneer in the development and manufacturing of postbiotics, for an enterprise value of €275 million. This transaction represents…
Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced that it will expand the capacity of its on-site facility in Tangjeong, South Korea, to increase its supply of high-purity industrial gases to Samsung Display. The increased capacity supports Samsung Display’s planned multi-billion-dollar investment to…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has signed a joint development agreement with ISU Chemical Co. Ltd. for the design of a commercial scale lithium sulfide (Li2S) unit for next generation battery technology. Under the terms of the agreement, KBR…