Orion Engineered Carbons S.A. (Luxembourg; www.orioncarbons.com) has signed a contract for Haldor Topsoe’s (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) sustainable fluegas cleaning technology, SNOX. The contract has a value of a three digit million DKK amount. The solution will remove SOx, NOx and dust…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has started up a new production line for its high-temperature resistant thermoplastic Ultrason (polyarylsulfone) at its site in Yeosu, South Korea. With the new line, the global annual capacity for Ultrason will increase by 6,000…
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Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.saudiaramco.com) and Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) signed a memorandum of understanding to build a giant petrochemical complex in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The complex will be integrated downstream of the SATORP refinery, a joint venture…
Motiva Enterprises LLC (Houston; www.motiva.com), a wholly-owned downstream oil and gas subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, recently signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) worth around $8–10 billion with U.S. companies Honeywell UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) and TechnipFMC plc, in a…
WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) announced the completion of the strategic acquisition of the Ludwigshafen and Schwarzheide offices of the M+W Group in Germany. The business acquired provides engineering services supporting the world-scale facilities of the chemical companies in…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is expanding its production capacities for methacrylate crosslinkers of the Visiomer brand. To this end, the methacrylates business line has made an investment in the low single-digit million-euro range at the Mobile site (Alabama,…
Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland; www.woodgroup.com) is delivering front-end engineering design (FEED) for Statoil’s Mongstad refinery near Bergen, Norway, as part of a new contract secured under an existing framework agreement. Effective immediately, the scope of the contract includes the design,…
Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, the Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the innovation and license company of Maire Tecnimont Group (www.mairetecnimont.com), and Hubei Sanning Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd have signed contracts for the licensing of technology and the delivery of proprietary equipment for a grass…
Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) will study the feasibility to build an ethylene vinyl acetate/advanced polymer asset for specialty applications in China. This potential investment would support Borealis long-term strategy to be a truly global petrochemicals company that continues to…