Chemical Engineering
OT/ICS Cybersecurity Risk: You can’t protect what you can’t see
Operational Technology/Industrial Control System (OT/ICS) Inventory encompasses endpoints, or components of an endpoint, that have a model number, serial number, or version number. This includes hardware, firmware and software running in the OT/ICS environment. The systems to be included in…
Vynova launches energy-efficiency projects at French manufacturing site
Vynova PPC (Tessenderlo, Belgium), a European producer of potassium and bromine derivatives, has launched an energy efficiency project at its site in Thann, France. Thanks to the investment, the company will be able to reduce its annual primary energy consumption…
Sulzer providing technology and equipment for naphthalene expansion in Indonesia
Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) is providing process engineering and key equipment for the expansion of PT. Dongsuh Indonesia (DSI) naphthalene downstream sector. The delivery of an advanced separation unit to DSI’s plant in Serang, Indonesia, will enable the production…
Explosion Protection in Hydrogen Applications: Principles, Practice and Technology
The use of hydrogen brings unique safety challenges, especially explosion risks. As its use grows across industries, effective explosion protection becomes essential. Understanding the principles, practices, and technologies behind explosion protection ensures reliable operations and safeguards people, equipment, and the…
Solvay and Orbia forming PVDF joint venture in North America
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) and Orbia (Mexico City, Mexico) announced their entry into a joint venture framework agreement to create a partnership for the production of suspension-grade polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), creating the largest capacity in North America. The total investment…
LyondellBasell’s polyproyplene technology selected for new plant in Vietnam
LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced that its leading polypropylene (PP) technology has been selected by Stavian Quang Yen Petrochemical, Ltd. (Stavian) for a new world-scale production facility. The facility will include a 600,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr)…
Phillips 66 adds fractionation capacity at Sweeny refinery
As part of its third-quarter financial results update, Phillips 66 Inc. (Houston) announced that is has completed an expansion of its Sweeny, Tex. petroleum refininey. The company added fractionation capacity (Sweeny Frac 4), adding 150,000 barrels/day (bbl/d) of capacity. Frac…
Momentive Technologies completes acquisition of CoorsTek’s crucibles business
Momentive Technologies (Strongsville, Ohio) announced it has completed the acquisition of CoorsTek’s (Lakewood, Colo.) crucibles business. This acquisition enables Momentive Technologies to provide semiconductor wafer and fabrication customers with a full range of crucible sizes to meet their advanced materials…
BASF acquires Cargill’s canola-seed plant in Idaho Falls
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) is expanding its high oleic canola seed production and processing business in North America through the completed acquisition of Cargill’s Idaho Falls seed production facility. This acquisition will expand the production capacity and reliability for InVigor…
DuPont completes divestiture of Mobility & Materials segment; cancels Rogers acquisition
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) completed the previously announced divestiture of the majority of its former Mobility & Materials segment (the M&M Business) to Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.) for a purchase price of $11 billion in cash, subject to customary transaction adjustments…