The first production facilities in the $1.4-billion expansion of BASF-YPC Co(Nanjing, China; www.basf-ypc.com.cn) have now begun operations. Along with the successful completion of the steam cracker expansion, the newly constructed butadiene extraction plant and the non-ionic surfactants plant are now…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) has begun producing hyperpure polycrystalline silicon at its Nünchritz site, the Munich-based Group announced today. First deposition reactors at the new production complex have already ramped up production of high-quality polysilicon for sale. The…
ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) and SGC Energia (SGCE) have entered into a master license and supply agreement for the application of ThyssenKrupp Uhde’s proprietary Prenflo PDQ coal-gasification technology. Under this agreement, SGCE will license ThyssenKrupp Uhde’s Prenflo PDQ…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded a contract by North West Redwater Partnership to provide front-end engineering and design (FEED) services for a new bitumen-refinery project in Alberta, Canada. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract value in the third quarter…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) will build a new production plant for hydrogen peroxide in Jilin Province in northeastern China. An investment of more than one hundred million Euro in the project sees Evonik moving another step forward in…
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.co.jp), jointly with APEX Energy Sdn. Bhd. of Malaysia, and PT Rekayasa Industri (Rekind) in Indonesia, has received an order from Petronas Chemical Fertilizer Sabah Sdn. Bhd. (PCFSSB) for a project to construct…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announced today that MTP HPJV (Thailand) Ltd, its hydrogen peroxide joint venture (JV) with The Dow Chemical Co., has successfully commissioned the largest hydrogen peroxide plant in the world. The production process of the new plant…
The State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP), part of the Iraqi Ministry of Oil, has awarded Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) the Basic Design and License contracts for the construction of the new petroleum refinery in Nassiriya, Iraq. Axens will supply…
Lanxess AG (Levewrkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is strengthening its commitment to Brazil with three major new investments totaling roughly €30 million, which will create more than 100 jobs. The investments will support the growing trend toward green mobility in the Latin…
Resinall Rütgers Resins GmbH (RRR; Duisburg, Germany) — a joint venture (JV) between Rütgers Novares GmbH (Duisburg, Germany) and Resinall Europe bvba (Brugge, Belgium) — has acquired the chemicals company Neville Chemical Europe BV (NCE; Uithoorn, Netherlands).The acquisition of NCE…