The Chinese Petroleum Corp. (CPC) awarded DuPont Clean Technologies (DuPont; Wilmington, Del.; www.cleantechnologies.dupont.com) the contract to supply the technology license, engineering and proprietary equipment for a MECS DynaWave wet-gas scrubbing unit to be installed at its Taoyuan refinery in Taiwan in August…
AkzoNobel’s (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) Specialty Chemicals business is working on plans to double production capacity at its organic peroxides facility in Ningbo, China, during the next two years. A project to boost the capacity by 40% is already underway,…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) started the production of Palatinol DOTP (dioctyl terephthalate), a general-purpose plasticizer, at its Pasadena, Tex. facility, with a nameplate capacity of 60,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr). The plant enables BASF to respond to the…
The Business Unit Catalysts (Munich, Germany) of Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) today announced the opening of a new office for its Catalysts business in Yinchuan city, capital of the Ningxia Hui autonomous region in China. With the new branch, Clariant…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has closed the previously announced transaction to sell its Bleaching Clay and Mineral Adsorbents businesses to EP Engineered Clays Corp., an affiliate of EP Minerals, LLC, a worldwide leader in engineered products derived from industrial…
Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) announced today that Farabi Petrochemicals Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) will use Honeywell UOP technologies for a new complex in Yanbu to expand its production of biodegradable detergents. The construction of the new complex is expected to be completed…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) and Huntsman (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.huntsman.com) announced that they have signed a long-term agreement for Air Products to build, own and operate a new steam methane reformer (SMR) and cold box in Geismar, Louisiana.…
The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) have signed a framework agreement under which the companies will advance two key projects that will expand both ADNOC and Borealis downstream petrochemicals business and support the…
Sadara Chemical Co. (Jubail, Saudi Arabia; www.sadara.com), a joint venture developed by Dow and Saudi Aramco, has successfully started up its Amines plant. The Sadara Amines plant is composed of two separate facilities, the Ethanolamines plant and the Ethyleneamines plant,…
Endress+Hauser has invested €4.5 million in a new sales office in Shah Alam near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The new facility will be used mainly to expand the company’s training offering in order to provide more in-depth customer support. “The new…