CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced that it has been awarded a contract by Jinneng Science & Technology Co., Ltd. for the license and engineering design of a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. The unit will…
Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo; www.m-chemical.co.jp) announced that The Saudi Methacrylates Company (SAMAC), a 50-50 joint venture between MCC and Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (Sabic; Riyadh; www.sabic.com), has successfully completed performance test of its plants for the production of methyl…
SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) announced that it has, in a joint venture with JV Driver, been awarded a lumpsum engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract from INEOS Oligomers to design and build a polyalphaolefin (PAO) unit at the INEOS…
St1 Nordic Oy (Helsinki, Finland; www.st1.eu) has completed the construction of an Etanolix pilot plant at Ubon Bio Ethanol Ltd.’s (UBE) starch and ethanol plant site in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand. In the project, St1 is piloting its own technology to produce…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced it has been awarded a contract by CNOOC Ningbo Daxie Petrochemical Co., Ltd. for the license and process design engineering of a 300,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) polypropylene plant in Ningbo, China. The…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced that it has increased the supply capacity of its Gulf Coast hydrogen pipeline supply network by approximately 40 million standard cubic feet per day. The additional product supply results from Air Products’ hydrogen…
New digital capabilities have enabled a revolution in the way process equipment maintenance can be approached, but the true impact of these newfound insights depends on organizational collaboration The chemical process industries (CPI) are facing a new economic landscape with…
Praj Industries Ltd. (Pune, India; www.praj.net) has appointed Mr. Shishir Joshipura as the CEO and Managing Director, effective from 2nd April, 2018. Joshipura is a mechanical engineer from BITS Pilani and an Advanced Management Graduate from Harvard Business School. Prior…
With the industrial internet of things (IIoT), it is essential that companies have an intelligent production-management system in order to obtain production information in realtime and store all the history in a database. CapTemp is a SCADA (supervisory control and…
A clean-in-place (CIP) system is among the largest users of consumables at a hygienic processing plant. Presented here are tips for reducing the consumption of water, chemicals and time in CIP operations In many industries there is a burgeoning awareness…