Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with the Sweden-based mining company Boliden on the design and delivery of an absorption section to be built for the sulfuric acid plant at the Rönnskär smelter. The order has been booked in…
Archer Daniels Midland Company (Chicago, Ill.; www.adm.com) and DuPont Industrial Biosciences announced a collaboration to develop, produce and market cellulase enzymes for operators of grain-based ethanol plants. Cellulase enzymes assist in hydrolyzing the corn kernel fiber, which consists mostly of…
Axens (Rueill-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) announced that it has signed a contract with MOL Group (Budapest, Hungary; www.molgroup.info) for its Danube Refinery to develop a cloud-based real-time monitoring unit as part of Connect‘In, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), developed by Axens and supported…
The Swiss-based engineering company NSB Gas Processing is now part of the global Busch group. According to a press release from Busch LLC, the NSB Gas Processing business has been renamed Busch NSB AG and brings a highly regarded team…
The preliminary value for the April 2018 CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; most recent available) jumped compared to the previous month’s value, continuing a string of monthly increases since the beginning of the year. And for the third consecutive month,…
The American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) reported that U.S. specialty chemicals market volumes continued to gain during the second quarter, increasing 0.5 percent in May, after an upwardly revised 1.0 percent gain in April and a 0.4 percent…
ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.exxonmobil.com) has started production of hydrogenated hydrocarbon resin and halobutyl rubber at its integrated manufacturing complex in Singapore, the company’s largest integrated refining and petrochemical complex in the world. “These new plants enhance the competitiveness and…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) held a ribbon-cutting event at the Covestro LLC Baytown, Texas, industrial park, where Air Products has invested over $350 million to build, own and operate a world-scale steam-methane reformer (SMR). The SMR is producing…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) and Beijing Tiangang Auxiliary Co., Ltd. (Tiangang), conducted a groundbreaking ceremony in Cangzhou (China), just over 200 km south of Beijing. The ceremony marked the start of the construction of a world-class production facility for stabilizers…
John Crane (Chicago, Ill.; www.johncrane.com), a global provider of rotating equipment solutions, recently announced that as of June 13, the company finalized its purchase of Seebach GmbH, a German-based provider of highly engineered filtration solutions for use in polymer, oil…