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SNC-Lavalin wins engineering contract from Florexx in the U.A.E.

SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has signed an exclusive agreement with Florexx International Investments LLC for the extended basic engineering and subsequent design and delivery of an Advanced Topping Refinery in the U.A.E.   Under the exclusive agreement, SNC-Lavalin will carry…

Air Products to install three energy-storage systems in South Korea

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced it will install energy storage systems at its industrial gas sites in Gumi City, as well as Onsan and Yongyeon of Ulsan City, South Korea. The adoption of the energy storage technology will…

Achema Daily: Wednesday’s Updates from Frankfurt

Read the newest issue of the Achema Daily to keep up with updates from the world's largest event for the process industries. ACHEMA DAILY for Wednesday, June 13th.

Updates from Day 2 of Achema 2018

Keep up with today's happenings at ACHEMA by reading the newest issue of the ACHEMA DAILY.

ACHEMA 2018, Day 1

The first day of the Achema tradefair has just finished. You can read the first issue of the Achema Daily here: https://epaper.vogel.de/process_87118/index.html?marketo_id=13094102&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkRkaFlqVTJORFEwTVRNMCIsInQiOiJkazUrakI5V3RsUU9JTVZpK0ViSEZUN3ZGaGR4VVVYVEFVNWdLREpHMWlOV0ZveHEzR3dmdXBzWUQ2OHhGZVNJS3dVQVBUZnlWMEtPTU1SRWpcL01NRUxKZFVsRDB4eHNpb0U2Tit5cW51SVR6d0h6WE5vSkp1a2VRMTNGT21XTzMifQ%3D%3D

SNC-Lavalin wins substantial contract for chlor-alkali plant in Oman

SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has signed an exclusive agreement with Project Development & Management International LLC (PDMI) in Oman, to design and deliver a greenfield chlor-alkali PVC plant 150 km southeast of the Omani capital Muscat.  SNC-Lavalin will support…

Neste and IKEA to launch commercial-scale production of bio-based polypropylene

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland; www.neste.com) is collaborating with IKEA to utilize renewable residue and waste raw materials, such as used cooking oil, as well as sustainably-produced vegetable oils in the production of plastic products. The pilot project at commercial scale…

DuPont Industrial Biosciences opens new headquarters in Wilmington

DuPont Industrial Biosciences (IB; www.biosciences.dupont.com) officially opened the doors of its renovated global business headquarters in Wilmington, Del. This new center of technological innovation, known as Building E353, is part of DuPont’s Experimental Station. The researchers, business teams and cutting-edge…

Haldor Topsoe to provide methanol process technology for Baltic Gas Chemical

Baltic Gas Chemical Co., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering (MHI; Tokyo; www.mhi.com) and Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) have signed a tripartite license agreement for a methanol plant project in Ust-Luga, Russia. The plant, with a planned capacity of 1.7…

LanzaTech starts up waste-to-ethanol plant in China

Carbon recycling company, LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.; www.lanzatech.com), and its joint venture partner, Shougang Group, a leading Chinese iron and steel producer, have announced the successful startup of the world’s first commercial facility converting industrial emissions to sustainable ethanol. The facility,…