PKN Orlen (Płock, Poland) is investing to expand its refinery in Mažeikiai. By the end of this year, construction will start on a project to build deep-crude conversion units enabling production of larger volumes of high-margin products. According to the…
Nouryon (Amsterdam) commissioned its latest Integrated Manufacturing Model to support the expansion of the Bracell pulp mill in Lençóis Paulista, Brazil. Nouryon’s Integrated Manufacturing Model provides customers with tailor-made onsite facilities, including the management of essential raw materials needed in…
Lukoil (Moscow, Russia) celebrated the start of work on the second stage of the Gas Processing Unit (GPU-2) at the Stavrolen petrochemical plant in the city of Budennovsk. GPU-2 is the first unit to be built under the Stavrolen integrated…
Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) is pleased to announce it has engaged Kiewit Energy Group Inc. to lead the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) effort for its Net-Zero 1 Project in Lake Preston, South Dakota. Kiewit Energy Group Inc. is part…
DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS) announced that Sofies Group, a leading global sustainability project management and consulting firm will join DSS. With this acquisition, which was effective 1 October, DSS adds to its offerings new intellectual property (IP), methodologies, tools, and…
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) has received a reverse osmosis (RO) membrane supply order for Rabigh 3 Desalination Plant in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Not only will the 600,000-m3/day Desalination Plant be the largest seawater reverse-osmosis (SWRO) plant in…
Clariant Catalyts has teamed up with Linde Engineering to develop new catalysts for the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane (ODH-E), an innovative, low-emissions catalytic technology for the production of ethylene. The novel catalyst is a step change in selectivity and productivity,…
SABIC (Jubail, Saudi Arabia) has announced the start-up of its new polypropylene (PP) compounding line in Genk, Belgium with a virtual inauguration event. The new line is an addition to the company’s existing production capacity for SABIC® polypropylene compounds at the…
Today, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2021 Nobel prize in Chemistry to Benjamin List from the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany); and David W.C. MacMillan from Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.), for the development of…
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced it has been awarded a contract from Limited Liability Company Kirishinefteorgsintez (KINEF) for two proprietary heaters that will be part of KINEF's refinery upgrade in Kirishi, Russia. "This award personifies how Lummus' comprehensive technology portfolio…